Kings of the Caribean

Here's Ben's video, (i hope!)

Naked Ladies!!

We've got Naked Ladies out in the village - always nice to see them :)

Funny though, they always seem to turn-up when summer is over and Winter's coming on - Stupid Naked Ladies really.

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Still Here!

Life goes on - same old same old. We have had brilliant weather lately, weeks of sunshine but then 3 days of rain - 3 very long days.

NEway, had a nice surprise late this afternoon - The Hokitika GirlGuides came to visit. I always tell kids that there is a Zebra out there somewhere, in Waiuta, and i bet they can't find it. So far, in 3 years, only one boy has found it - these girls messed up the average though - they all found it.

The Other Notice Boards

These boards only go outside sometimes - i don't want them fading away and, besides, they tend to blow over when a wind comes up - need to find a better way of displaying them.

Anyway, the photos etc on them are from an extended article in the old 'Looking at the West Coast' magazine - about 15 years after Waiuta died. They're a good picture of life & work in Waiuta.

The little round-faced girl (wrongly captioned Jean Walker), was my mother and the skinny tennis-player lady on the right in the other one was her mother. A year of two ago.





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Photo Opportunity

Okay, the Board's finished & up


Pose like this


Portrait of the Young Man as an Artist


Another Portrait


Cheers Ben - well done!

Waiuta People (Again).

This is Ngaire Sibbald, with her son & daughter.

Ngaire was one of the Hocking sisters, i think that there were five of them. Their family had the main boarding house in Waiuta in the late 1930's.

They came to visit us recently, for the second time - so pleased that i recognised her!



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Let the Sunshine In

We've had a couple of very wet days, (which we needed - the trees drank it up), but today, Easter Sunday, the sun finally came out and the place went a bit mad - people coming from all directions.

Jarrod and Callum were back, spending the day with me, which was very cool. A family from Leeds, England but currently in Dunedin for 12 months, came up the hill and the boys gave them a guided tour. (Not sure what they were telling them!) When they left the father asked if he could buy the boys an ice cream - like they were going to say no!

That was very nice of him and - what a great score!!



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