365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – Blog#66 – Mid-Winter HANDS Market
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 your way inside though, the vibrant colour, the wafts of market food, the sweet, amplified voices of female singers, the chorus of conversations and the friendly faces, transported you to HANDS world. One of the cool things about this quarterly event is that the HANDS comittee pay us to have a stall there! It’s all in the name of strengthening community.
I thought I’d share a photo essay of today’s market.
The hall was brimming with colourful characters. This is Clair, she’s a health worker/drummer/dancer.
Kahu and I even had our own ‘stall’. We sold an ‘old lady’s tea set’ for fifteen HANDS.
One of Golden Bay’s resident poets doned her apron and sold delightful morsels for the day, earning many HANDS.
This photo below is officially the photo of the day – this is Grant Knowles – he’s Golden Bay’s drum maker. He wears many other hats too. Today he was selling old electronic equipment. Behind him, up on the stage, stands an amazing singer/songwriter (name to be discovered) who is well on her way to becoming famous.
Hand-made kete.
Amira – aka the Mud Faery. For the past couple of decades this lady has made her living from traveling the world, sculpting mud with children. She’s very good at it. These days she’s an artist and works at Tui Bee Balmes.
Yummy home-made rice and dahl. This dish was being sold by Paddy – who manages the local community radio station Fresh FM. 
Finally, introducing Murray – scrabble champ of the top of the South Island of NZ. If you ever want to test his super-scrabble-powers, head into Golden Bay Organics and throw a handful of vowels and consonants at him.
365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation (as I raise my gorgeous son and grow my good news website to a subscription base of 100,000 people). The Low Down on this Blog.
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the singer behind me is local Cloe Langly returning to the bay for the winter with a few friends to cut an album
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