Newtown Festival

Newtown is a suburb of Wellington, known for its mosaic of cultures, from Pacific Islanders, to Palestinians, Sudanese, Chinese, Latinos, Syrians, Greeks, Italians etc. Today was their annual street festival.

Welcome to Wellington.

Brag book

Jean, Gay, Jessie and Maara, ladies I do fundraising with. They are the best!

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With Suzie, an awardwinning photojournalist.

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Beach-combing on the north shore with my Israeli friend Shulamit.

Brag Book

A dear friend I inherited from my husband. Lexie lives in Auckland and is the most gracious and friendly hostess.

Friends are friends forever

OK, now for a brag book. As I don't have kids, I'll brag about my friends instead. This is Kim the Kiwi, and Bon Bon, my Californian friend. K and B worked together at Emirates Airlines. I am the one in the middle under 6 foot tall!

My Left Foot

It seems damaging my foot is becoming a weekly occurrence. Last week it was the nail through the toe, this week a sprained foot (same foot too!). When I was collected from work yesterday, I couldn’t walk I was in so much pain. The devil of it is, I have no clue how I did it. It must have been a combination of strappy sandals (they have low heels!), high humidity and crouching on and off all day, trying to get items out of floor level cupboards.
Sigh. The sandals will go to a charity shop and I will attend my fourth wedding anniversary dinner tonight with a foot strapped up, smelling of witch-hazel.