A town of just over 2,500 people. Before 1955 accessible via the wheezing and puffing of the Fell locomotives up the Remutaka range. Today passenger and trains, trains whoosh into the dark and whoosh out into sunlight from the rail tunnel. A town of preloved antique shops, smiling in the morning sun. Grandma’s kitchen andContinue reading “Featherston”
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Eat Worms
And fly non stop for a week and a half. Godwits. Unique to NZ and China. Somehow, and for how long? – these birds know the favourable winds to assist the migration to enjoy summer in both hemispheres. And breed chicks – who ‘get it’ to migrate and have chicks, for thousands and thousands ofContinue reading “Eat Worms”
Stuck on a Monument
Even the car looks relieved as it pulls into our drive and kids ooze, tumble out. Welcome hugs. A long drive after a committee decision, ‘Let’s visit Poppa’.Committee decisions, no one is actually in charge, there is a moment of each looking at the other, ‘Now wot?’ followed by chatter, dawdling inside and clattering downContinue reading “Stuck on a Monument”
Yesterday, and Tomorrow
Low speed, lots of corners and the road now is tar-sealed. The ratatat of corrugations and dust are yesterday.Driving through shade and covered by ferns and native trees provide a break from all day sun. Almost at the destination and my phone sounds an alert. Nowhere to stop on this narrow road. I guess. AnotherContinue reading “Yesterday, and Tomorrow”
Coffee Time
Replete Cafe. Taupo Portrait of the artist as an elderly bearded gent.
Taking the Plunge
Rotorua.A brief holiday.A cooler night than Thames although I missed much of it. I was asleep.Sunny today.Rotorua streets now landscaped for paved terraces and walkways, slowing and limiting traffic. A comfortable people-feel. Street sculpture and planting much improves the environment. Sunny today.Rotorua streets now landscaped for paved terraces and walkways, slowing and limiting traffic. AContinue reading “Taking the Plunge”
If My Cat Were Me
On your own, relaxed, what do you eat?I choose green beans, roast spud, meat.But Vegan? Seems a complex show.Chopping, gathering, more chopping, slow. The Beingness of Vegan, avoiding, mocking.Look, just like meat patties! Vegans flocking.Why pretend to be like us?Just call them patties, why the fuss? Vegans, women mainly, take time to think.Dairy, fish, herbContinue reading “If My Cat Were Me”
From the Ground Up
Hot Lie on the grass, the ground is dry, ants everywhere. They are busy carrying Ant Messages. talking about the weather? Food? Maybe there has been an Ant Election.They bite. Stand up they are on your arms, your clothing, back of your neck. Jump, do an ant dance. They drop off. Wonder if the neighboursContinue reading “From the Ground Up”
Chirp. I’ll Do It Myself
Flutters, lands on the perchStarts feeding. Baby arrivesHead up, mouth openChirps. Loud chirpsFlutters wingsWaitsMother ignores,Feeds on my Wild Bird SeedWhile waiting Baby pecksFeeds I learned to balanceRide my bikeWhen my motherLet go the bicycle seat.
Total Immersion
Past the school to the compulsory stop.Early morning traffic light is light.past the ‘Ice-cream Dairy’, the racecourse and the open road sign.Contractors with flags, and ladders fixing stuff up a pole.Pass a council mowing thingy cutting back to scruffy, rural grass verge.Then silence. Silence except for a duck.A pool to myself.The early summer splash, frolicContinue reading “Total Immersion”
David in Pen and Pics 