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Early morning visits to your beautiful garden ☺️

Thank you for visiting ours 🙏🏽

I have to get up shortly (it's not quite 5am Friday) to begin cooking for our Matariki lunch time meal with our neighbours. These lovely ladies are from Singapore, and they moved in about 2 months ago. We kept planning a get together and one thing or another would happen...but, today IS the day 🥰

I can't wait to help warm their home and to celebrate Matariki to bring in the Māori New Year 🎉

Sharing a meal is always a great way to form relationships...x

Have a wonderful blessed day my Fairyland friends 🤗

Happy Thursday to you 🙏🏽

Tomorrow is a public holiday unique to New Zealand only called Matariki.
Matariki is the celebration of the Māori New Year. It is marked by the rise of the Matariki (Pleiades/Subaru/Mao) star cluster as we pass through the dead of winter (June/July), into a new year.
It is celebrated in 3 ways (besides a bank holiday) over the period when the star cluster rises and is visible to us.
Basically, we remember / mourn those who have passed in this last 12 months. We share food / a meal with others to celebrate what we have in the present. Then thirdly, we prepare the ground/garden and plant food to sustain us in the future.

For now I'm resting, as I've shopped, cleaned my house, written up my menu to share with my neighbours tomorrow and compiled my list of vegetables I'll be planting on Sunday.

So now it's time to do some return sprinkles 😉💚

Thanks so much for dropping by Old Man Turkey's garden 🪏 🏡

Have a wonderful blessed day 🙏🏽

Hi there. How are you?

It's been a few days since visiting your garden. Thank you for leaving a comment on our garden wall so Old Man Turkey and I could find our way back to you 🥰

What a weekend!

Lost a long time friend on Friday. Last time him and I spoke, I had video called him on his birthday in March. He was awaiting a transplant but sadly he passed before they found a matching organ.
His funeral is tomorrow but I cannot be there!
That's the hardest thing! 😭

Cyclone Vaianu has moved on overnight thankfully. Bit concerning but where I live only received downed trees, scattered power outages and some flooding that closed some businesses for the day. Something to be truly thankful for 🙏🏽

2026 has been one weather event after another that's for sure!!

Anyway, I hope that this message finds you in good health. If not, may you be on the road to recovery or at least some respite 🌹

Take care of you, you're so deserving of happiness and good health 🙏🏽💚