Showing posts with label gifts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gifts. Show all posts

Sunday, 11 May 2025

Mother's Day

 Just wanting to wish all the mothers in blogland a very Happy Mother's Day.

I hope you've all had a lovely relaxed day doing things you enjoy doing with the people closest to you :)


I've had a very lazy day myself and might send my GKB Bob up the street to get curry rice rolls and chips for tea.
I've been feeling tired lately so had a long lie in and then watched our church service on line today. And after lunch both the girls visited at different times, bearing gifts :) I'm so glad they keep them simple. One gave me a nice scented bath bomb and the other a tub of slightly more expensive ice cream than I would normally buy, in a flavour I've never tried. I'm looking forward to trying it. Supper tonight probably, if I can wait that long.



Leaving you there. 

Have a wonderful week.

Keep well.

Diana

Friday, 3 March 2017

A day full of blessings

Well this has been a real day of blessings.
I turned my phone on as I was having my breakfast
 and a text came in immediately. 
Would you like some apples and pears, 
I can bring some down shortly.
So of course I said yes. I shared some with my daughter 
and took some around to a friend who lives
 in a retirement village. What she can't use she puts
 in the hall for other residents to help themselves.


She also gave me a beautiful red rose with a wonderful scent. 
They were heading away later in the day and thought it was
a shame for the rose not to be enjoyed by someone.
Lucky me :) The colour in the photo is pretty true.


Morning tea came around and my GKB came in with this offering. 
We both had a laugh...and he didn't sing happy birthday.
Raspberry slice, yummy. He knows I like it.


We had just made scones for lunch and my youngest
 daughter waltzed in. 'How's your day going?' she said,
 and then in came my little mother and my other daughter. 
Bearing gifts.
I'd already received a parcel in the post today, from Japan.
How great was the timing in that? 


The botanicals and exfoliater were from one daughter, 
and the coral necklace came from Japan. They also had a
 birthday cake with them, so lunch was scones and birthday cake 
with tea and coffee. And good company of course. We did
 have a healthy(ish) tea - filled baked potato. 
Yummy again :)


When I delivered the apples and pears to my friend in the village she had just been given a box of bread and asked whether I wanted any, so of course I said yes, again. I took three loaves so I could give some to my daughters as well as keep some for myself. As you can tell, the barter system is alive and well among my friends. 


That's six photo's not five, oh dear I can't count :(
Maybe the two cakes can count as one?

And that's it for this week.
Have a good one,
Diana

joining Amy for: 
Five on Friday

Thursday, 25 December 2014

Te Harinui - glad tidings of great joy

Christmas greetings from my home to yours.
As you open your Christmas gifts pause for a moment to remember 
why we celebrate at this time of the year. 


'For God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son
so that anyone who believes in him shall not perish 
but have eternal life'.


Two hundred years ago on December 25th, 
Samuel Marsden preached the first sermon on new Zealand soil 
to the Maori people and the pakeha (europeans)
 who were in Oihi Bay at the time. 
Today we commemorate that momentous event
 as we celebrate the birth of our saviour.


Let me finish with a well loved New Zealand carol
written in 1957 by Willow Macky.

Te Harinui 


  1. Not on a snowy night 
    By star or candlelight 
    Nor by an angel band 
    There came to our dear land
    Te Harinui 
    Te Harinui 
    Te Hari-nu-i 
    Glad tid-ings of great joy

  2. But on a summer day 
    Within a quiet bay 
    The Maori people heard 
    The great and glorious word
  3. The people gathered round 
    Upon the grassy ground 
    And heard the preacher say 
    I bring to you this day
  4. Now in this blessed land 
    United heart and hand 
    We praise the glorious birth 
    And sing to all the earth


I wish you all a wonderful Christmas
and all you hope for during 2015.
Merry Christmas,
Diana