Sunday, February 9, 2014

Not Enough Hours

It has been another busy week.  There were all the usual things to keep us busy such as walking Sophie and visiting Max as well as the usual household and garden chores for both my property and Dougs.

Among other things, on Tuesday we tried to go to the Summer Show put on by the Northland Youth Theatre group although all tickets were sold, there was a possibility of getting in.  Unfortunately, we just missed out and put our names down for the following and final night when we were successful.

It was based on the fact that the young people of Whangarei (and many other towns worldwide) leave home to go to uni or obtain work entwined with  the story of the Pied Piper.

The young people had done everything from writing the story, acting etc., etc.  We will definitely be going to any of their future productions - it was thoroughly enjoyable.

On Friday we went to a lunch for members of the local Parkinson society and enjoyed an exhibition of Scottish Country Dancing.  Yesterday, Saturday, after walking Sophie along the usual Hatea River walk Doug suggested it would do me good to walk up Parahiki so after taking Sophie home and having a cuppa we went back and walked the same river track and then walked up Parihaka.  We think we walked about 10 kms with a part of it very steep.  Although I was quite tired afterwards I feel surprisingly good today.

Today we walked Sophie down at the Town Basin and looked at the sculptures in the third Whangarei Sculpture Symposium.  It started on Tuesday and finishes with an auction next Saturday.

On one of our walks this week I spied another Giant Dragonfly which seemed to be caught on something up a bank.  They are beautiful.





No photos of the Northland Youth Theatre play as I was too engrossed in it.

We walked up the Ponga track which is quite narrow in parts.







The following is a selection of the early stages of the sculptures - there are 30 in all.  We hope to get back later in the week to see how they turn out.



















9 comments:

  1. Our Dragonflies are very friendly too. Occasionally I have to rescue them from the house, where (I'm ashamed to say) they become entangled in the cobwebs.

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    1. Must be in the genes as I have a few of those as well (that is spiders' webs

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  2. The sculpture looks as if it is going to be interesting - are the people doing it indigenous New Zealanders, it appears to have a traditional Maori feel to it?

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    1. Looks like a complete ethnic mix Rosemary. Difficult to tell with some as they are completely masked up.

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  3. I had a wander down to the symposium yesterday. I was working so couldn't stay long (plus I didn't have my camera) so planning on returning at the end of the week. I am looking forward to seeing the progress!

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    1. It is great isn't it. Will be doing the Garden Discovery trails at the weekend but plan to go and see how the sculptures finish up as well.
      There is just so much going on here.

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  4. Beautiful pictures of the dragon fly. Love the sculptures too.

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  5. Yes, the dragonfly came out well. Will be interested in seeing the finished sculptures

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  6. Gosh, you've been busy, Susan, but it all sounds most enjoyable. The big bonus is that you must be getting fitter and fitter with all those walks. :-)

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