Finished reading: Annals of Native America by Camilla Townsend ๐Ÿ“š


Finished reading: Bernardino de Sahagun by Miguel Leon-Portilla ๐Ÿ“š


Finished reading: Homer and His Iliad by Robin Lane Fox ๐Ÿ“š


Finished reading: The Florentine Codex by Jeanette Favrot Peterson ๐Ÿ“š


Finished reading: Prophet Song by Paul Lynch ๐Ÿ“š


Finished reading: How the World Made the West by Josephine Quinn ๐Ÿ“š


Hลkio figs with Gorgonzola dolce and thyme honey.


Hลkio fresh fig festival


Sand Serif


Hลkio beach weekend antics


Extraordinary birthday dinner at Rita with Bill - briefly in Wellington between Florida and Vanuatu.


Bill is back. Teddy is pleased!


Finished reading: Ancient Cuzco by Brian S. Bauer ๐Ÿ“š

Excellent preparation for our trip to Peru in July 2024.


Finished reading: Why the Bible Began by Jacob L. Wright ๐Ÿ“š

Fascinating analysis of the underpinnings of the development of the Hebrew Bible.


Finished reading: Mona of the Manor by Armistead Maupin ๐Ÿ“š


Family Easter at Eketฤhuna country cottage


Thank you to my wonderful bestie Sam Mackay for helping me to buy my latest bookstack from Unity Books in Wellington:

  • Lady Chatterleyโ€™s Lover (D.H. Lawrence 1928)
  • Mona of the Manor (Amistead Maupin 2024)
  • A History of Japan in Manga (Shunchiro Kanaya 2022)
  • The Land Wars - the dispossession of the Khoisan and AmaXhosa in the Cape Colony (John Laband 2020)
  • Normal Women- 900 years of making history (Philippa Gregory 2023)

#books #bookstack #history #friends


Ramses exhibition at the Australian Museum


Starting the year out right


New Year 2024 Hunter Valley NSW