Monthly Archives: October 2017

Saturday at the NZ Quilt Symposium

There was the merchant mall. I test drove some new Berninas and found out I could still machine quilt pretty darn well. Then I looked at a lot of quilts, in several locations around Christchurch and chatted up some of … Continue reading

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Friday in New Zealand

Sort of squeaking this one in under the wire but hey, it was a pretty busy day! Got up and figured out a bus to take downtown. The bus ended at a terminal building where you can change buses but … Continue reading

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Things learned while riding along in NZ

There are plants here that have very different forms as juveniles, “adolescents” and mature plants. Think about it – most of the time if you look at a very young plant it looks like a tinier version of what it … Continue reading

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Thursday in New Zealand

A long drive from Murchison to Christchurch, filled with road construction and fantabulous views of mountains and geologic formations and rivers and all. It’s hard to be upset when the nice man says sorry there will be a half hour … Continue reading

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Today we took the ferry…

to Picton, on the South Island and then Marge started driving – past Blenheim, through a lot of vineyards and eventually to Murchison. Saw a lot of families of kids on school holiday, grapevines, road construction workers, sheep, some very … Continue reading

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