Living Between A Rock And A Hard Place...

High in the mountains of Fafe in Portugal, inspired some say by The Flintstones, this delightful house was constructed between two giant boulders.
Thank god there are people around with imaginations and abilities to create outside the square, and between a rock and another hard place...

Art To Sit On...

Last November you may remember I posted
'Art To Walk On', a wonderful floor made with the very creative use of mosaics at the Thames Trading Post.
Through the door to the adjoining shop called 4DeSoul, there's the owner, the very talented and imaginative Gaye Mitchell who as well as creating the floor and other mosaic masterpieces around the Coromandel, has just completed four months work on this amazing chair. The price is $NZ3,500.00
Using thousands of hand-cut pieces of mirror and some really gorgeous pieces of 'other' visually enhancing materials she has created this piece of Art to Sit On, which really is a reflection of her.
It's unique and beautiful...

What Is It?

Whatever it is or whatever it's going to be, Ben, you remember Ben, the Boy Genius, is working on it and it'll be finished on Sunday...

International Visitors Flock To Kaiaua Too...

Kaiaua is well known internationally as a 'Birdwatchers Paradise' with huge flocks of little Godwits flying over ten thousand kilometres non-stop from Alaska annually to nest and rest here.
Dotterel breed here from September to March and the Pied Oystercatcher also winters over here.
The Wrybill, a threatened New Zealand species, the only bird in the world with a curved beak is here between January and July so there's plenty for the flocks of birdwatchers to see. And there's an Information Centre nearby.
German friends Erika and Willi sent me photos from when they were here last year.
Theirs is a very interesting, small, self contained and compact campervan with everything they could need in it's place ready for use at a moment's notice. Plus a couple of solar panels on the roof.
Bringing their camper with them from Germany, they travelled extensively throughout New Zealand.
They're another couple of birds we'd welcome back...

Kaiaua By The Sea...

You know it's one of my favourite places.
Overlooking the Firth of Thames, the hills of the Coromandel in the distance.
It will be some time before I return so am making the most of its many moods for a couple of days...

Let Us Treat The Earth Well...

I came across this beautifully worded thought recently and wish to share it with you.
"Let us make sure we treat the earth well. It was not given to us by our parents, it was loaned to us by our children and their children..."

Ken Ring And Weather Or Not...

Ken Ring is known as The Moon Man because he bases his opinions on the weather and the likelyhood of earthquakes on the position of the moon.
He's been having a stormy time lately.
The media loves to hate him while never acknowledging that they sell more papers or tv time because of him.
Earlier this year he offered an opinion that there would be, around February 18, a quake that would devastate the city of Christchurch.
He was right.
Ken's been under severe criticism from skeptics and scientists for daring to opine there would be another large earthquake in Christchurch yesterday, March 20.
He was right again.
Many hundreds of people had taken his opinion seriously and left town.
The 5.1 earthquake did no damage.
The skeptics and the scientists had a field day claiming him to be a scaremonger.
The only scaremonger among us is the media.
A lot of people swear by Ken Rings opinions on the weather.
A lot fewer people will be swearing at him this morning...