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Bit of a surreal evening. Murdock has friends really high up on a hill behind us in the bush. Last night we went up there on the Quad bike, it took 40 minutes, in a hurricane, the weather was really wild. Up at the top the wind was so bad we could hardly stand on the high top balcony of the house. Nice evening, dinner with very interesting people - and then, in the pitch dark back on the quad. Flying along though the wind and rain with bushes and grasses against our faces, over tiny little bridges across swollen rivers - and then in the middle of the track five hairy little white and black spotted pigs, never saw anything so cute. With my eyes hazy from the speed, the wind and the weather it felt a bit like an hallucination - but that can’t be after three glasses of Honey Mead?

I ran a fabulous workshop today. A reflexology demonstration in the morning, scrummy  lunch brought by everyone and then a long Yoga Nidra in the afternoon, it took about three hours and went down terrifically well. The house was high up over Whangaparapara Harbour on Harpoon Hill , wind and rain howling around all day. Perhaps I’ll do one when I come back to Lancaster. 

Moving again tomorrow - sick of it now. Murdock’s daughter coming home with a freind so no room for me here. Will stay with another friend 2moro then hoping to rent a house on the beach in Tryphena.

Here for another month - till 27th March, then off to Aitutaki where I have rented a tree house on the beach for the first few days. I thought the lagoon was safe there apart from a few nicely coloured little fishes - but looking at the guide book there is a picture of a bloody great big hump backed whale swimming along! 

So not sure when I will be on line again, as nearest internet cafe 15k away. But please write to Outpost address, its always lovely to hear from you.

Would be looking forward to coming home if I had anywhere to live, but my truck is parked on a farm now, on which it is parking only,  and my previous space is no longer available. Feel a bit tired of the moving about. So, though a lot of this travelling and freedom is all very well and exciting and interesting it would be nice to go home -wherever that may be ………….. but at the moment I would not give this up for the world and am really looking forward to my house on the beach and then Aitutaki - funny old life isnt it?

The title phrase means “get a move on”, which I’ve felt for a while I had to do with this blog. Dags, it seems, are woolly appendages which hang from the rear end of sheep because they don’t wipe their bottoms properly when the go to the tiolet.

I’ve moved out of the jaws of hell! Been having massive stressful situations where I was living and moved last week- felt I hadn’t slept properly for weeks and weeks and was very anxious and aching all over. Now I’m about 10 km from Tryphena which has been the center of my Universe for several months, and on the east coast , which is less peopled, wilder and has much more dramatic scenery. A very kind man called Murdock has taken me in, he does lawns, keeps bees and is a writer, it is so peaceful here. I’m having the best sleeps of my life, completely silent at night apart from the distant ocean and the rain on the tin roof.

It is a bit of a palaver getting about. I have to walk down the track in the bush, then through some fields, over a little wooden bridge and onto a small road, down the small road and onto the main road where I hitch a lift to Claris - where the airport, library and post office is  or in the other direction to Tryphena.    Sometime I get a lift with Murdock.  We get on a quad bike down to the fields, then into a van for the next bit and then sometimes change into the car if more than 2 of us are traveling, like when we go to the movies in Tryphena and the neighbour comes too.

The neighbour has an amazing history, she is daughter to Veronica Lake, a movie actress from the 40’s and 50’s. The movies club had a Veronica Lake night to honour her mother. One side shot of her during the movie showed a bit of a swelling round  the waist and that was the start of the pregnancy of the neighbour, isn’t that a nice story?

Some of the movies have been great. It all goes on at a local club where the screen is pulled down over the TV and we can all order food or have proper tea out of really old fashioned china tea services. I’ve seen the Magician, Star Dust and Zietgiest is coming soon.

Other forms of media are strange. A sports commentator was talking on the radio recently saying how glad he was that a player had been withdrawn from a team  he said “at least we won’t have to see him picking his pants out of his butt crack anymore” this was national NZ radio! can you imagine anyone on Radio 4 saying anything like that?

I got a lift from the DOC (department of conservation) He said he’d been watching 4 Brutus Whales off the coast, he said they were bubble-netting. The whales swim round and round in a circle creating lots of bubbles, the fish get trapped in the circle of bubbles and then the whales pop up through the bubbles scoring all the fish - clever eh?

My sister has been here for a few days before she travels the mainland, we had a great time, hired a car, soaked in the thermal hot pools  and had appropriate arguments to which all sisters are entitled, best of all she bought me a lipstick, haven’t had anything coloured for ages on my face, I felt terribly sexy when I got that smacked around my chops

The weather has been glorious, I went swimming yesterday and the water was beautiful, I feel so lucky to be here - though Paradise can sometimes be very difficult.

Thinking of you all - amazing results from healing work - all is very well - lots of love today on St Valentines XX