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365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – Blog#78 – The True Meaning of Friendship

July 2, 2010 – 4:51 pm | 2 Comments

I’ve just been sitting on the beach, watching my naked son enjoy yet another sunny mid-winter swim with Maia – the dog who will swim (or wallow if necessary) in anything liquid – pondering the true …

Little Things Make a Huge Difference … by Yvonne McLaren

June 28, 2010 – 6:22 pm |

Homelessness and generally people in need are always one of those things where we all want to do something. Most people in New Zealand are basically pretty decent people. When disaster strikes, kiwis roll up …

365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – Blog#72 – The Manly Bouquet:A Little Gem

June 26, 2010 – 11:04 pm | One Comment

Have you ever been at odds about what to get that guy who has everything for his birthday? Perhaps you’re running a little low on time or money, yet you really want to offer some …

Chickens are the “New Black” in the ‘Burbs

June 26, 2010 – 11:05 am | 4 Comments

Why Chickens?
Chickens are the new black in Green Urban Living. Once you have read the  following I’m sure you will be racing out to get your own feathery flock!
Tasty, Rich, Nutritious Eggs
As Kiwis we love …

365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – Blog#71 – The Ongoing Gollywood Experience

June 25, 2010 – 10:02 pm |

Gollywood – what do you think? It’s the Golden Bay version of Bollywood (just in case you didn’t figure that out).  So here we are, mid-winter, in a small rural community, in New Zealand, learning …

Great Fathers – A Free, Special DVD Just for New Dads

June 24, 2010 – 4:18 pm | One Comment

How about this story.  A guy – lets call him Dave –  is reading some material by a NZ pediatrician and a US economist, and is so stunned by the material he resolved to tell …

365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – Blog#70 – Introducing the Green Urban Living kiwi website

June 24, 2010 – 3:38 pm |

Don’t you love finding people who dream exciting green dreams and make them happen? Today I ‘met’ Janet Luke.  This is how she introduced herself to me via email:
“I am a Landscape Architect, Environmental Planner, Permaculturalist and …

365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – Blog#69 – Yipee! And all the National Parks Lived Happily Ever After…

June 23, 2010 – 10:38 pm | One Comment

I see that the NZ Green Party have been running a campaignto ‘save our treasured places’, namely our national parks.  My son’s named after the Kahurangi National Park.  I love that park.  It looms green and …

Dream2Reality and Emily Harris: yMedia Challenge 2010

June 23, 2010 – 9:19 pm |

I have no graphic design talent and the idea of me creating my own website is laughable. My skills deficiency means that since embarking on my rooftop gardens project and founding Urban Pantry I’ve been …

365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – Blog#68 – Sweet Relief

June 22, 2010 – 8:22 pm | 3 Comments

I’m sitting outside in the sunshine, leaning against a museum, and I can’t move.  Because I’ve stopped.  Finally.  To rest.  Here in the warmth.  And my body feels as if it’s falling, slowly, like molasses, so accustomed it is to moving, …

365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – Blog#67 – Heading into the Heart of Winter Solstice

June 21, 2010 – 7:34 pm |

Oh oh!  How exciting!  In this very moment, as the darkness settles in here in Aotearoa we are heading into the longest night of the year.  Winter Solstice is upon us aka ‘mid-winter’.    Some call …

365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – Blog#66 – Mid-Winter HANDS Market

June 20, 2010 – 5:15 pm | One Comment

Today here in Golden Bay the Mid-Winter HANDS Market pulsed for hours in the Takaka Primary school hall.  It was a rainy, moody kind of day, hence the back-up rainy day school-hall option.  Once you made …

Peace Celebrations – A Part of the WW1 Story

June 18, 2010 – 7:29 pm |

Ministry for Culture and Heritage
Media release
A neglected part of New Zealand’s First World War story, the elaborate peace celebrations held in July 1919, is now being told on Ministry for Culture and Heritage website www.nzhistory.net.nz.
‘In …

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

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 …

Do Something for “Those to Be Homed” in Auckland by Yvonne McLaren

June 15, 2010 – 5:00 pm |

This is Yvonne McLaren’s first ever blog for Happyzine.  Yvonne works with various ‘to be homed’ groups around Auckland and has good news to share …
This blog is about homelessness, but not as we know …

Chinese Community Takes Over Kai to Pie this Saturday

June 15, 2010 – 2:00 pm |

Auckland is a unique culinary crock-pot, encompassing a dazzling array of foods from the dining tables of the 181 ethnic groups that call New Zealand’s largest city home. The World on Your Plate series at …

365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – Blog#61 – Organic Aotearoa

June 15, 2010 – 1:25 pm | One Comment

I was recently reminded of my opinion that I think New Zealand should become 100 % organic.  I remembered when I was looking around on http://intersect.ning.com/ and I came accross a comment, well, more a question that …

YourMondayMotivator – Glenn Edley

June 14, 2010 – 7:40 pm |

I wish I could do this or I wish I could do that are not the most powerful of statements you can make to get what you want.
Wishing for sun on a dreary Winters day …

365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – Blog#60 – The Key Word is ‘Green’

June 14, 2010 – 7:30 pm | 2 Comments

(While I grow my son and raise my good news website [geeky joke])
Well hello magnificent reader.  She/he who positively quakes with untapped potential (no matter how much you’re already using).  She/he with a whole world …

365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – Blog#59 – The Kiwi Online Community they Call ‘Intersect’

June 13, 2010 – 7:23 pm |

(While I raise my son and grow my good news website).
Intersect.  This is another website that I really enjoy (yesterday I raved about inhabitat.com) and have been spending some time on over the past few …

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