We’re grateful to Garth, Tanya’s brother, for lending us this powerful painting by Margaret Lawlor-Bartlett- an 85-year-old grandmother! She painted it in 2015- and now in her 90s, she is still painting, after a 60 year career as an artist. It will be displayed next year in a retrospective of her work over many decades. […]
Happy Helpful Honda!
We’ve just been thinking how lucky we are to still have our 2001 Honda. She is now almost 20 years old, has seen us from the farm days through to the city, has done 456,120km, has a few mended scratches, bangs and rust patches, and has faded somewhat from her original marvellous mauve. But she […]
Busy in the City…
Before our Northland journey, we’d had a rather busy month – a mix, as usual, of supporting NZ drama, films, music and books, indulging and learning…as well as gardening (Tanya) and Isaac Body Corp Owners’ Committee (Charmaine) Three very different films: Rose Matafeo’s Baby Done – a riotously funny journey with a top woman […]
Protest Action…Saving Trees
Save Canal Road Native Trees… For more than 100 days now, protesters have been occupying a property in Canal Road , Avondale, to prevent the felling by a property developer of the remaining twenty-three 100-year-old native trees. The surviving trees include rare natives like black maire and kawaka; half the trees which grew on […]
Out and About
Bubbah at the Basement Theatre… Our first theatre outing after Covid Lockdown was a Basement Theatre production: Bubbah: My Ode to South Auckland, described as “South Auckland stories by South Auckland people”, written by Bubbah in her garage with her team of Maori and Pasifika mates, describing life as it happens in their ‘hood – […]