It’s a long time since I’ve written.
Much has happened!
We’ve left NZ.
And our Tiny Garden.
In the hands of new caretakers 🌱
We’ve ventured across the ditch, home (for me) to Australia.
Here on home soil, much inspired, I’ve been doing a different kind of digging.
Into my ancestry.
Some of my ancestors experiences have left me awake at night worrying about them.
Two who have particularly captured me; a 21 year old convict who arrived in 1793 on the ship Boddington and a private in the New South Wales corps who arrived two years earlier on the ship Matilda. They arrived just a few years after Phillip Arthur sailed into Sydney Harbour in 1788 with the First Fleet (11 ships).
I’m patching their lives together with what facts still exist but what I wish more than anything is that I had some of their own words, so I can be there with them while they write, feel their pain and fear, share it with them, a trouble shared is a trouble halved? Halve their worries, I wish with all my heart I could.
We miss so much about our home in NZ; our beloved friends, our little cottage and our tiny garden 🌱
But with the twists and turns of life come new joys, new hopes, new dreams…
Wishing you a wonderful day!
PS. these golden delicious apples are from our last Tiny Garden harvest before we left in April this year. No exaggeration, they were the yummiest apples I have ever tasted! 🍏😃
so so excited that tiny garden is finally back. it’s my daily meditation which I very much look forward to!! thank you for bringing it back!
Thank you Ruth 😊xx
Welcome back, Arwen, on many levels.
May your new home bring all you both need and desire … including a new garden.
Thank you Sharyn 😊
Yes please a little garden 😃
Xx
Lovely to have the Tiny Garden back. Your gentle words were missed.
Thank you Kerrie, it feels nice to have put pen to paper again 😊xx
I loved this post and seeing your wonderful pictures and hearing your beautiful voice again. I hope all’s well for you in your new home back in your homeland. I’ve found being back in my homeland to be a strange experience, having been away for so long, but it’s awesome to reconnect to the past, as you’re doing, and have a sense of belonging. I hope you find a new garden there that you can pour your kindness into. Sending much love. xxx
Thank you Lyse, your message has put a smile on my face, so lovely hearing your voice! 😊😃
Yes we were away for a long time. The roots we put down in NZ were very well established, transplanting us was bound to be a shock to our core. I hope the uprooted part of you is finding all you need to thrive back on home soil. Loads of love Xxoox
Tiny Gardeners – Welcome back and Bon Voyage, all at the same time.
Your posts always make me smile. A big appley smile this time.
Best best wishes to you both xxx
Thank you Fiona 💚
Hope you’re well and Wellington is sparkling! Hugs from me xx