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Happy Solstice, we hope…

December 19, 2020 by Leave a Comment

  We wish you  a Happy Solstice, with a colour-full covid-free summer if you are in Aotearoa or the Pacific… …and if you are in the Northern Hemisphere, or in a Covid-infected area, and dealing with  lockdowns and deaths,  please take care, and know that we are sending our love to you, with our hopes […]

Filed Under: Charmaine's thoughts, Culture and heritage, Environmental issues, health issues, Social Justice Issues, Tanya's photos, Tanya's thoughts

Elections 2020 in Aotearoa

October 19, 2020 by 1 Comment

      Sunday 18 October – the day after our  elections How lucky we are to live in a country where a warm, eloquent and truthful woman Prime Minister has been able to hold our nation together during the difficult times of the last three years.  We  hoped that Jacinda Ardern and the Labour-led […]

Filed Under: Culture and heritage, Environmental issues, Gender issues, Our Local Community, Social Justice Issues, Treaty issues

Out and About

October 19, 2020 by Leave a Comment

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 – […]

Filed Under: Culture and heritage, Gender issues, Our Local Community

August News and Views..

August 19, 2020 by Leave a Comment

    This month we’ve experienced an Auckland Lockdown, pre-Election Politics, a Climate Change event, some Celebrations…and Spring is on its way here with Tanya’s photos of a burst of magnolia blooms in Grey Lynn… and a celebratory bike ride by Tanya into the West… (past Western Springs, through the Te Atatu Bike tunnel, to […]

Filed Under: Culture and heritage, Environmental issues, Our Local Community

Lockdown/Rahui  again…

August 19, 2020 by 1 Comment

We’re in Level 3 for 12 days because of a new cluster of Coronavirus cases detected  in Auckland City,  and  since  a few cases in Tokoroa and Rotorua.  The whole country has been put into Level 2:  https://covid19.govt.nz/covid-19/alert-system/alert-level-2 Here in Auckland, we feel for the smaller shops and cafes that can’t afford to become delivery […]

Filed Under: Culture and heritage, Environmental issues, health issues, Our Local Community, Social Justice Issues, Tanya's photos

De-Carbonise Auckland by 2030!!

August 19, 2020 by Leave a Comment

( please consider signing the open letter on their website) On Monday 10 August We went to an excellent meeting at The Grid in downtown Auckland, organised by Bike Auckland and Generation Zero and chaired by Lucy Lawless. The purpose of the meeting was to publicise the campaign, “The Race to Decarbonise Auckland Transport”: https://www.generationzero.org/decarbonise_transport_2030?mc_cid=58df924e64&mc_eid=264f2bbd2d […]

Filed Under: Environmental issues, Our Local Community, Social Justice Issues

Celebrations..

August 19, 2020 by 2 Comments

Tanya’s 75th birthday We managed special outings for Tanya’s birthday-she turned 75 on Sunday 16 August.  On her birthday, we climbed her childhood maunga, Ohinerau (goddess of whirlwinds), previously known as Mount Hobson, with magnificent 360 degree views over Tāmaki Makaurau and the two harbours.  We also discovered the newish walkway (previously a wild impenetrable […]

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Ngā mihi o Te Mātahi o te tau

July 19, 2020 by Leave a Comment

 Greetings for the first fruits of  the Māori New Year!   We had a special celebration this year during Matariki- a lunch at Manee Thai with our Shakti friends, because the   birthdays of  two of their older supporters happened to fall during Matariki this year: Retna, mother of Shila (July 14), turned 84, and Charmaine […]

Filed Under: Culture and heritage, Our Local Community