Gloria

 

A couple of weekends ago a lovely friend of mine named Sam had an open day for his pink church in Blaketown that he has named "Gloria" so the local community could come and check him out, the church and his art.

 

Sam is a lovely man who sometimes comes into my work and chats with me. Him and I like to outdo each other with our unusual and weird ear rings. The idea of the church is to encourage others who are gay/LGBTQ/non binary/ etc or whatever to be themselves. Everything inside is painted pink and there is a dressing up area full of cool and unusual clothes for people to try on.

 

A book reading area with some comfy couches and crochet blankets is on the left and on the right is a piano that reminds me of Elton John.

 

On the left is some of his artwork and sculptures for sale and on the right is Sam himself sitting at his desk, he was a bit shy today for a photo.

Thank you to those who wished New Zealand well for the cyclone. I'm in the South Island whereas the storm was forecast for the North Island (we are made up of 2 small islands in the Pacific Ocean). It ended up veering off the east coast so never went anywhere near us and it didn't cause too much damage thankfully. Sadly cyclones are a fairly common thing here, they don't happen all the time but we do get them occasionally.

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Kowhai Bush Walk

 

Sunday was a crisp, cold, sunny Winter's day here. B and I decided to venture out and complete a short 20 minute walk around a wetlands in Blaketown.

This photo above and the next few ones are of the water, bridge and pathway around the loop. We could feel the cold air and the temperature got to a chilly 10 degrees.

To get back to the car we had to come out of the pathway loop and cross over the railway tracks. Trains only go through town a couple of times a day so there was no danger.

Someone has written graffiti on one of the concrete overbridges. The West Coast has always been well known for it's coal industry. We don't use coal on our fire but many other people do as it's cheap.

Looking torwards the port and industrial area...

Looking over the railway tracks towards the rugby club then we turned around and walked back to the car.

And here's a video I took on my phone of the walk as we went around, if you want to see the 20 minutes roughly of it here's a link:

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