Reasons to be cheerful.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD9AFG1GdgI&feature=related

Rebel rebel.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDetQ18fw5Q&feature=related

They’re native plants to New Zealand with Maori names completely unpronouncable to Europeans.
http://www.ccc.govt.nz/cityleisure/artsculture/artinthecity/chalice/aboutchalice.aspx

You’d think somebody somewhere would have realised that it’s pretty ludicrous for a professor to be studying Thomas the tank engine.I don’t see why it’s so difficult to accept that certain occupations are more appropriate to one sex than the other.Incidentally why do we now have to refer to a person’s ” gender ” and not their sex ?
How refreshing to see old shape taking a moderate line for a change !

And in New Zealand,this is a traffic jam.

Just one Cornetto in Christchurch’s Cathedral Square.
It’s called The Chalice.

How about this for a view from your front garden – Lyttelton Harbour.
My friend’s house is built on the side of a steep hill.She goes up and down her steps like a mountain goat,but I had to totter down them holding Mr. Bee’s hand for the first time in years.

Spot the boat beside the towering sides of Milford Sound.