The little tree on the street is now in flower- less than a week after I noticed its buds. I love those creamy white flowers- like small ceramic cups, perfectly formed.
I've been loving browsing around on etsy lately. Last week i bought Tom an olive green tie like this (for the rare occasions he needs one) and am already dreaming of the Christmas shopping possibilites that this site will bring. Stress-free, and from the comfort of my own home- hooray! This week on etsy, my friend Caireen opened her little store- the patchwork dress- selling her beautiful recycled cards and little elephants. She gave me some of her unique cards a while ago, and I loved them so much, I had sent them all over the world within a week.
We had a lovely weekend, despite suffering from the 'flu (I think). I took Nurofen for the first time (I don't often get sick) and felt I could do anything. It was like magic! So we caught up with family, looked at blossom, walked to a busy farm to see the roosters, ducks, and kunikuni pigs...
and ate delicious spring food made by Tom's Mum.
(I love the idea of a huge platter of things to put on bread... she had beautifully arranged salad greens and herbs, chicken, cooked potatoes, pesto, eggs and peas, with calendula petals covering everything.)
And we also spotted this kereru on our walk- unusually close to us.
Their feathers are a bright, shimmering purple/green, with white markings that look as though they're wearing an apron. We used to have lots of them in our garden when I was a child, getting drunk on berries and plum leaves, and swooping through the kowhai trees. This is the closest I'd been to one before though, and I was surprised by how sleek and graceful her head was.
