50th World Wide Sketch Crawl

Sketch a monument etc.... the New Plymouth waterfront and its now famous walkway with the Len Lye inspired Windwand was an instant attraction for me .  A busy summers day.  MLB

Radio Hill in Blagdon

From the Access Radio Taranaki broadcast tower hill in New Plymouth, you can see the Blagdon shops and the horizon line goes out to sea. It's a bit weird that this hill has cows grazing around it in the middle of houses. An oasis of rural in suburbia. A few years ago I drew the front of the shops and the hill and the radio towers are in the background. I'm still amazed that the convenience store is still open beside the 4 Square (which is a chain of small grocery stores). It seemed like poor planning having a shop that sells the same kind of stuff (but with less group wholesale buying power), open roughly the same hours, and with less product selection. Yet years later, it still exists. I wonder if there is a secret.

Volkwagen Kombi at the beach

About two more weeks until lots of people (and most businesses) shut down for up to a month. Combining Christmas, the New Year and plain old Kiwi summer holidays into a concentrated dose of serious time-off. But why wait? That's what weekends are for.

LizB Beach views from a weekend at The Bungalow May 2013

A luxury weekend with my Biz@Home friends afforded me the opportunity to take note of the fabulous views from The Bungalow.

View of Pitone Stream and Beach: a lovely long beach walk

LizB New Plymouth foreshore May 2012

LizB New Plymouth foreshore May 2012