Trowel Power!
September 9, 2010 – 5:32 pm | One Comment

By Rebecca Toon – New Zealand
The hour of the trowel has come. Jules Dervaes is pioneering a revolution from his backyard that will change the way you feel about this humble tool and your own …

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365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – Blog#142 – Rebecca Toon’s debut on Happyzine: Thrilling
September 9, 2010 – 4:00 pm | No Comment
365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – Blog#142 – Rebecca Toon’s debut on Happyzine: Thrilling

Ok, I’m keeping it brief today.  I’m feeling very excited to introduce this piece of writing to you.  You have got to check out another positive writing graduate’s first ever article on Happyzine: Trowel Power.  …

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365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – Blog#135 – For the Love of Family
September 2, 2010 – 6:00 pm | No Comment
365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – Blog#135 – For the Love of Family

I write this blog scrunched forward, squinting at the screen in my contact-lenseless state.  It’s been a chaotic day of family and animals, kind of exhausting, and heart-filling, all at once.  So first – here’s …

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365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – Blog#134 – Check out Yealands, Greenist Vineyard in NZ?
August 31, 2010 – 8:30 pm | 2 Comments
365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – Blog#134 – Check out Yealands, Greenist Vineyard in NZ?

I heard the story of these guys a few weeks ago on the National Programme and thought they sounded pretty cool.  They’re very busy ‘going green’ and are even hoping they’re the most sustainable vineyard …

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365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – Blog#130 – She Sleeps So That the Good Can Continue
August 27, 2010 – 3:30 pm | No Comment
365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – Blog#130 – She Sleeps So That the Good Can Continue

While some days it doesn’t seem as if I achieve anything (as the mother of this good news website, plus one gorgeous three year old and one Golden Retriever), actually I do.  Even today, as …

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365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – Blog#125 – Fancy A Little Power Smoothie to Pep Things Up?
August 21, 2010 – 10:40 pm | No Comment
365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – Blog#125 – Fancy A Little Power Smoothie to Pep Things Up?

The good news is I’m ninety percent of the way through the second draft of my e-book.  I read back over it today and enjoyed it, I hope I’m not the only one!  Now let’s …

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Residents Have Their Say on “Taxi-bus”
August 20, 2010 – 6:25 pm | No Comment
Residents Have Their Say on “Taxi-bus”

Hikurangi Foundation
Media statement
For release: 19 August 2010
Residents have their say on “Taxi-bus”
Warkworth residents are being surveyed on a Taxi-bus service to see if this could be a solution to the lack of public transport in …

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365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – Blog#122 – Little House Big House – Why It Doesn’t Really Matter
August 18, 2010 – 6:00 pm | No Comment
365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – Blog#122 – Little House Big House – Why It Doesn’t Really Matter

The house I live in, which I’m renting, brings me great pleasure.  It has everything I need and more.  It has an eager little heat-pump, which, at one press delivers me enough warmth to fill …

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365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – Blog#121 – Feeling Ten Out of Ten and (nearly) Proud of It!
August 17, 2010 – 10:00 pm | 3 Comments
365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – Blog#121 – Feeling Ten Out of Ten and (nearly) Proud of It!

I don’t know if this makes for boring reading, but so many good moments happened today that it’s hard to know which one to tell you about.  Why on earth would this be boring? I …

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We Need to Be Heard
July 21, 2010 – 2:55 pm | One Comment
We Need to Be Heard

MEDIA RELEASE
New Zealand Deaf Foundation
We need to be heard
The National Foundation for the Deaf wants to give people who are hearing impaired and deaf the  opportunity to be heard by their Members of Parliament.  NFD …

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365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – Blog#79 – Book Review: The Rayman
July 3, 2010 – 10:58 pm | No Comment
365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – Blog#79 – Book Review: The Rayman

One of the very first pages in this book says “This book is dedicated to the dreamers, especially those who have learned how to make their dreams a reality”. 
Perfect for me. I’m big into the whole …

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365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – Blog#74 – Grant Knowles of Tribull Drums
June 28, 2010 – 6:16 pm | No Comment
365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – Blog#74 – Grant Knowles of Tribull Drums

Today I had the pleasure of being interviewed for Fresh FM by the Golden Bay-famous Grant Knowles.  Grant is a local drum maker – he founded Tribull Drums – where he makes, repairs, and teaches people …

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365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – Blog#64 – Hearty, Soul Nourishing Pumpkin and Coriander Soup (with loads of garlic!)
June 18, 2010 – 6:20 pm | 4 Comments
365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – Blog#64 – Hearty, Soul Nourishing Pumpkin and Coriander Soup (with loads of garlic!)

Here in Aotearoa/New Zealand we’re in the middle of Matariki, which also coincides with winter-solstice.  It’s the ‘dead of winter’.  It’s the time to nestle inside with the heat pumping and a good bowl of …

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Being a Father: What’s It All About?
June 18, 2010 – 12:57 pm | One Comment
Being a Father: What’s It All About?

Officially, I am now a father, and perhaps I’m becoming an older, more experienced father.  I do have 16 months of daily training.  Nothing actually prepares or gives you the experience you need, until you …

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365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – Blog#48 – Chocolate … Of Course It Cuts Cholesterol (it’s Brown Love).
June 2, 2010 – 10:29 pm | No Comment
365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – Blog#48 – Chocolate … Of Course It Cuts Cholesterol (it’s Brown Love).

(As I raise my child and grow my good news website)
I see that Stuff has reported on the squillionce study to report on the health giving effects of chocolate consumption.  Those of us that regularly …

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365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – Blog#37 – Matariki Morning
May 23, 2010 – 9:28 pm | 3 Comments
365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – Blog#37 – Matariki Morning

(While I raise my son and grow my good news website)
Here’s some music to listen to while you read this blog.
Tina Bridgman.  If you haven’t heard of her, you will soon.  Tonight I fare-welled her, …

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365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – Blog#37 – Love Scenes at an Airport
May 22, 2010 – 10:18 pm | 3 Comments
365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – Blog#37 – Love Scenes at an Airport

(While I raise my son and grow my good news website)
[I am loving writing this blog. It’s a purely self indulgent act. I love that I’m thirty seven blogs into three hundred and sixty …

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365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – Blog#31 – My First Rock-Concert (Again)
May 16, 2010 – 11:07 pm | No Comment
365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – Blog#31 – My First Rock-Concert (Again)

Tonight as I write this it’s late, it’s dark, it’s been pouring for days, the Takaka Rivers swollen, many are experiencing cabin fever, and I’m rather tired. The parents out there will understand, I’ve …

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In the Face of No Agreement
February 14, 2010 – 5:59 pm | No Comment
In the Face of No Agreement

The following story to me is a prime example of how intention and collaboration work.
Over three years ago I moved to Whangaparaoa and joined an arts group called The Arts Foum Inc.( TAFI). The intention …

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Aha! Yet another case of honesty! Epidemic?
November 5, 2009 – 2:39 pm | No Comment
Aha! Yet another case of honesty! Epidemic?

 
Photo: By Martin Kingsley
The New Zealand Herald reported that a Good Samaritan Aussie post worker has handed in a parcel containing Australian $100, 000 dollars. “Police have praised an Australia Post worker who handed in …

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