100 Days Project – ‘show up and get to work’
Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us show up and get to work.’ Chuck Close. This opening sentence on the poster announcing The Day 100…
Called back to the Camino…
Last month I was invited to speak on Radio New Zealand’s series, Our Own Odysseys. Friends and followers would have laughed out loud at the title…
Newmarket NZ, through my lens…
Behind the camera lens… “People spot a big black lens, and they worry about what they’re doing, or how their hair looks. Nobody see the person…
Brick Bay blog postscript – I own a sheep…
Brick Bay where wine and sculpture unite … Sculpture trail… In this section of my blog I talked about the jersey-clad sheep I had found in…
Brick Bay where wine and sculpture unite …
Given the huge success of my blog Gibbs Farm – take a walk on the wild side I find it really strange that I have neglected…
An unlikely comparison: Jane Austen and the Tea Sisters
It does of course make no sense nor is it sensible to state that my conversation on Saturday with Storm and India, the Tea Sisters stirred…
Steampunk HQ – Oamaru, NZ
“Whatever you can do, or dream you can… begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it” –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Beautiful words Goethe…but there…
Disconnecting to reconnect…
In this age of social media devices gobbling up every spare nanosecond of our down time our brain is starved of time to disconnect and travel…
My first year of blogging…
Why should we all use our creative power…? Because there is nothing that makes people so generous, joyful, lively, bold and compassionate, so indifferent to fighting…
Instagram, love, looking around and poetry…
Love, loss, looking around… This post takes inspiration from my poetry roots – Massey University’s paper once called Love, loss, looking around, and Insta-poetry. Instagram a…
