R and R

Last weekend I was back in New Plymouth for Womad which of course meant fried bread and festival footwear...

 as well as some crowd participation on the Sunday morning - everyone getting down to the Patea Māori Club's Kiwi classic Poi E.  It's on Facebook under Stepup Taranaki if you want to watch a hillside full of people working off all the fried bread they have eaten.

 and the Peacock ladies who did an amazing job of stepping though the crowd on stilts.

This weekend I've been in recovery mode and using the extra days over Easter to prepare some flax for a weaving project; 12 little baskets to give as part of a speakers gift for a conference at the end of April.

New Wheels

When your mechanic suggests that it might not be worth doing major work on your car my experience is that the time has come.  So, having done more than a few thousand kilometers I have traded in my car and am now the proud owner of a lovely little second hand Renault.