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8 February 2013
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The Final Blog – Would You Like the Good News, or the Good News?
April 29, 2011 – 3:43 pm | 8 Comments

Oh my goodness.  365 days of blogging (I forgot two days, and may have in fact repeated a few days, but hey, here’s to being human).  And so here I am on the final day.
Let’s …

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365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – 364 – One Sweet Moment; Change As Good As a Holiday and taking a Gandhi Day.
April 28, 2011 – 7:19 pm | No Comment

Here are three more of the more special blogs (well I feel as if they are) that I wrote over the past 365 days.  The first one is called ‘One Sweet Moment with My Son’.  …

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365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – 363 – Three of My Favorites 365 Blogs Over the Past Year – Believing in your dreams, just be yourself and honey bees: a sign of hope.
April 27, 2011 – 8:19 pm | No Comment

I’ve decided it’s time for some fly-bys of the blog action over the past year.  Here are three random blogs I re-discovered and felt affection for:
Here’s one blog about keeping the faith and believing in …

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365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – 362 – Head Over to Our April Green Dreamers Facebook Page to Cheer Them To the Finish Line
April 26, 2011 – 5:10 pm | No Comment

Well it’s the 25th of April, which means over on the April Green Dreamers facebook page we’ve got five days to go.  Feel free to head on over there to cheer some of our green …

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365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – 361 – The Rayman Is Sharing His eBooks So Help Yourself (plus the Final Countdown)
April 25, 2011 – 5:00 pm | No Comment

Ahhh five blogs to go and they feel so precious!  What to write about in these final days?!
Well I am feeling pretty excited about Ray Parke’s new book release.  I reviewed Ray’s first book ‘The …

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365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – 360 – The First and Last Love Blog
April 24, 2011 – 9:58 pm | 6 Comments

So here we sit on blog 360.  360 days of finding the best part of each day to ponder, appreciate, and share with you.  There’s one aspect of my life I haven’t written about too …

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365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – 359 – Harvesting the Green Heroes of This World
April 23, 2011 – 5:02 pm | No Comment

I’ve been working on my exciting new Green Dream course today (during a gorgeous few hours of solitude) and I’ve been developing an e-flier to send around the planet.  The more I write about this …

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365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – 358 – One Gorgeous Organic Food Stall in Golden Bay: Photo Doco
April 22, 2011 – 6:02 pm | One Comment

So what did I do on this Easter friday? Why went food stall cruising with the whanau of course!  And here it us, my favorite.  Divine.  Lush.  Abundant.  Rockworlds organic produce stall.  Always offering a …

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365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – 358 – Seeing Beyond Limits
April 21, 2011 – 6:25 pm | No Comment

I’m a sucker for a passionate Irish person.  There’s just something about the Irish people I know.  They’re sooo lyrical!  Yeah, I know, gross generalizations  and I that.  But still I shall press this point …

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365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – 357 – Dreaming of Day 365
April 20, 2011 – 4:30 pm | No Comment

I have just nine days to go until the very end of my 365 days of blogging.  I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately.  The fact that my daily writing habit shall soon come …

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365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – 356 – Brittany Packer – Keep Your Eye On Her, Oh Yeah.
April 19, 2011 – 5:00 pm | No Comment

Working online, there are people I’ve been emailing or skyping for years who I haven’t yet met in person.  Many of them are some of New Zealand’s most motivated, making it happen people, a large …

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365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – 355 – The Kahikatea
April 18, 2011 – 5:00 pm | 2 Comments

Today I found myself surrounded in old native forest with some of my most favorite people.   As we walked deeper and deeper into the forest I felt myself absorbing the clean air and relaxing.
This is …

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365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – 354 – What’s Your True Hearts Desire?
April 17, 2011 – 8:10 pm | No Comment

When I was a little girl I bought my first album.  It was a record.  It was the eighties.  Rattle and Hum.  I loved U2.  I loved the raw emotion in their music.  I loved …

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365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – 353 – Man Invents Way to Harvest Oil from Plastic (of course)
April 16, 2011 – 6:08 pm | No Comment

I believe that as our needs change, we possess enough intelligence and imagination to generate new solutions to meet those needs.  Every single one of them.  For every challenge we face as a people, as …

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365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – 352 – Being a Rockstar Feels Really Good
April 15, 2011 – 11:16 pm | No Comment

Tis late – nearly mid-night.  I’m home after playing a gig at a friend’s house-warming-we’ve-arrived-in-Golden Bay party.  Tonight, people actually danced to our music.  It was Mohua Sun’s dream come true.  And one little girl …

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365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – 351 – “Take Some R&R Now or I Will Make You!” Said the Wise Body
April 14, 2011 – 6:30 pm | No Comment

I know I’m not alone in saying this.
My body’s been asking me to slow down for a few months.  It keeps saying ‘relax’ and ‘rest’ and when I do, everything just feels better.  Then again,  …

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365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – 350 – Our Youth Are So Very Bright
April 13, 2011 – 6:22 pm | No Comment

I’m coaching someone, we’ll call her … ‘Amy’.  I’m coaching her to become a journalist.  So today Amy turned up, I critiqued some of her work, we chatted, and what really struck me about this …

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365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – 349 – NZ Green Party Using My Ebook As a Fundraiser
April 12, 2011 – 2:36 pm | No Comment

Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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.
Check out yesterday’s blog.
Check out …

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365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – 348 – Exciting Days on the 30 Day Green Dream Facebook Page
April 11, 2011 – 2:07 pm | No Comment

Yes indeed.  It’s kinda cool seeing the projects and goals that are cropping up on that 30 Day Green Dream facebook page.  So far we have: one electric bike being made by April 30th, one …

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365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – 347 – Check out the Rayman – Part of the New Generation of Feel Good Books
April 10, 2011 – 8:53 pm | No Comment

Hey there Happyziners!
I just wanted to remind you of a book I discovered last year called the Rayman. It’s a book that was written with the intent to uplift and inspire.  I think it’s one …

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365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – 346 – Sweet Music
April 9, 2011 – 10:30 pm | No Comment

When I was twenty eight I found music.  Or it found me.  On a Marae.  Some might say it was my saturn return doing exactly what it was meant too.  Others might simply say: life …

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365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – 345 – Relax, God Can’t Be Rushed
April 8, 2011 – 5:40 pm | No Comment

It’s been all on organising Green Dream courses (including pilots here in Golden Bay) and setting up ‘behind the scenes’ relationships with people who are interested in working with me to sell my ebook. One …

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365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – 344 – Girlie Nights Rock
April 7, 2011 – 9:53 pm | No Comment

I would just like to say that girlie nights rate up there with being massaged, enjoying long hot baths and surveying a box of chocolate you’ve just been given.  They’re sacred.  And divine.  I’m riding …

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365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – 343 – Girly Night Anticipation
April 6, 2011 – 7:30 am | One Comment

There comes a time when a girl’s just gotta clear the schedule for the night and make some time for her friends.  Sometimes only girly company will really settle a girl’s heart, especially when it’s …

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365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – 342 – The Composting Toilet Dialogue Continues, This Time Lead by AJ Hickling
April 5, 2011 – 7:03 pm | No Comment

Naturally AJ Hickling has taken up the question of ‘why aren’t more people using composting toilets in Christchurch right now?’.  AJ’s like that.  He tackles the obvious yet, unadressed issues.  I know some of my …

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365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – 341 – Free Love, Composting Toilets and Lush Green Getaways – all in a day’s work at Happyzine!
April 4, 2011 – 4:30 pm | No Comment

Firstly, I am delighted to see the subject of ‘free hugs’ being discussed on Happyzine right now in the ReGeneration blog. I think a free hug has to be delivered in the right way – …

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365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – 340 – Breaking News: Mother Enjoys Peaceful Morning Run
April 3, 2011 – 4:56 pm | No Comment

Ahhh, the Golden Moments of life.  They’re often fleeting, deeply felt, joyous snippets of time that are extra special because we know they’ll never happen quite the same way again.  My most brilliant moments of …

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365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – 339 – Composting Toilets a Fine Step Forward for Humans
April 2, 2011 – 10:48 pm | No Comment

Imagine if one of the greatest resources we humans easily and regularly (if we’re lucky, heh, heh) produce was put to good use on a daily basis for the greater good.  Imagine if our human …

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365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – 338 – An Ode to the Onekaka Hall
April 1, 2011 – 7:35 pm | No Comment

The old Onekaka Hall was built 100 years ago for the New Zealand Education Board.  Today it stands, small, cosy and lovingly maintained.  Also, though I write this with mild levels of disbelief, it can …

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365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – 337 – Francisca Griffin’s Food for Thought
March 31, 2011 – 2:30 pm | No Comment

I’m loving these videos of Kiwi change-makers.  Check out Dunedin based Naturopath Francisca Griffin talking about ‘happiness’ to the Regeneration crew as they passed through Dunedin.  She offers food for thought (pun initially unintended, though …

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365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – 336 – Bliss on a Beach
March 30, 2011 – 3:59 pm | No Comment

Most amazing moment today: following in the footsteps of my son as he headed determinedly towards the incoming tide, at sunset.  His three year old legs were carrying him along at a solid pace.  We …

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365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – 335 – Stone Arrow Jewellery
March 29, 2011 – 7:00 pm | No Comment

I just thought I’d do a little plug for my friend Nick Feint’s amazing jewellery because he just posted a link to it on facebook and I was enthralled.  Nick lives at and runs Stone …

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365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – 334 – Helping to Support the Emergence of the Green Generation
March 28, 2011 – 7:00 pm | No Comment

Today I’ve been excitedly organizing and promoting two green dream courses I’m preparing to run over the next few months.  One’s called “How to pin-point, develop, and begin the career of your green dreams” and …

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365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – 333 – Chick Lit Is My Choc Lit
March 27, 2011 – 4:00 pm | No Comment

Autumn is making its moods known here in Aotearoa and today in Golden Bay, we were blessed with a cosy, rainy day.  It was the kind of Sunday that invites baking, hot chocolates, and lying …

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365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – 332 – Earthhour, Neighbours Day and an Urban Permaculture Paradise
March 26, 2011 – 11:18 pm | No Comment

Earth hour.  I find it nearly as exciting as New Years Eve. So tonight we dutifully sat there examining each other by candle light and did indeed feel obliged to make a few earth hour …

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365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – 331 – What Are Your Ocean Views?
March 25, 2011 – 10:00 am | No Comment

Check out this short You Tube video featuring some ocean workers sharing their ‘ocean views’.  These people make some great points about this sacred aspect of life on planet yeart.   Here in New Zealand the …

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365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – 330 – Getting Ready for Neighbours Day Aotearoa
March 24, 2011 – 7:30 pm | No Comment

Today, as promised to Tania Austin – the coordinator of Neighbour’s Day – I dutifully crossed the road and had a yarn with Paul Woodward (he who happens to have just rocked walled his long, …

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365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – 329 – When Nothing Can Mean Everything
March 23, 2011 – 8:20 pm | No Comment

So today’s ‘utterly amazing moment’ happened at Playcentre.  Did I note my son performing a triple turn jump on his bike? Or did I perhaps watch an exceptionally special DVD about early childhood development?  Did …

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365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – 328 – Today I Put the Law of Attraction to Work and It Responded Accordingly. Nice Law of Attraction.
March 22, 2011 – 8:00 pm | One Comment

Well the title says it all.  In fact, that’s all I need to write tonight.
“Ha ha ha!” Laughed the over tired blogger.
So, I woke this morning rather too early for my liking, after going to …

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365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation – 328 – Neighbours Day Next Weekend!
March 21, 2011 – 5:00 pm | No Comment

You lean over the fence and summon your neighbour.  Keeping your face serious, you wait ’til they’re right in front of you, and then you whisk out that banana cake you baked for them from …

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