Category: travel blog

  • Friendly Feilding – Repost.

    Friendly Feilding – Repost.

    Sorry for the image glitch in the original post. Many towns in New Zealand have a big something, a quirky feature characteristic to their town. Feilding is renown for having the biggest sale yards in the Southern Hemisphere. But there is many little known ‘bigs’ of this rural town. The big heart of the people…

  • Cafe Doodles

    Cafe Doodles

    Work in progress. This is a drawing of Bruce, a kitty friend from a Sth Island housesit in September 2018. Typically ‘Cat’, cuddles were on his terms only. He found the best entertainment was playing with a leaf from a cabbage tree.

  • Beyond Words

    Beyond Words

    I am still finding the best words to describe our experiences on Saturday. Invited to join in the celebrations of the premier public screening of Devils On Horses, John and I had an impromptu art exhibition. A selection of family member portraits and John’s collection of drawings of the actors were on display in the…

  • The Magic of Art-In Honour of the men and their horses in WW1.

    The Magic of Art-In Honour of the men and their horses in WW1.

    Yesterday we saw the characters John has been drawing over the past 18 months come into this reality for us, here in the little rural town of Feilding, Manawatu New Zealand! Terry Kingi and The ANZAC Mounts did a promotional presentation for Devils On Horses at the Feilding Farmers Market yesterday. What an amazing experience…

  • Woo Hoo – Success!

    Woo Hoo – Success!

    Yes! We did it! Everything is working as it should be. Phew!! Now I can reset my focus on sorting, packing and preparing for our road trip on the 16th August, 2025. Please subscribe to join in our adventures and art updates.

  • Thank you for your patience.

    Thank you for your patience.

    The newly designed website is almost complete. *Phew* Just a few glitches to smooth out… linking buttons to pages! All new stuff for me to learn. In between sorting and packing our belongings for storage, preparing for a road trip, and John’s work with planes and helicopters, he still makes time to doodle. This is…