FATHER’S DAY at Postie Plus Kaitaia
FATHER’S DAY
This day is hard to miss. Business people will tell you in their windows alright, when Father’s day is! You can buy “Denim Jeans for Dad” on Father’s Day for only $49.99 $ 10.00 off it says in the shop window.
I have never known my father. I had never [...]
Filed under: Short Stories English on September 2nd, 2007 | No Comments »
There is a lot of talk about the future and there is also written a lot about the future. Only yesterday I picked up a very interesting folded leaflet with cartoons here in town. It says there the FUTURE can be bright for you too. On the other side it talks about changing attitudes [...]
Filed under: Short Stories English on August 30th, 2007 | No Comments »
The more we are letting go, the more the Lord can give us.
But it is difficult to let go!
When we came back from Thailand at the end of 1979 we had so much stuff that we had to transport some of our belongings by boat in a 40 gallon drum. When the drum arrived at [...]
Filed under: Short Stories English on August 21st, 2007 | No Comments »
I am in a big bookshop and above the bookshelves filled with the books for sale I see several posters with the following words on them “Fiction Authors A to Z Fiction” And above is written “I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.” Montisquieu
I have experienced that myself [...]
Filed under: Short Stories English on August 5th, 2007 | No Comments »
It was in Whangaparaoa at the Plaza, at the Pacific Plaza. I love that place. What was Woolworth once upon a time is now Foodtown. In the bakery I discovered German Black Forest cake. I love that cake, bought a piece and was going to eat it straight away after paying of course. But I [...]
Filed under: Short Stories English on August 1st, 2007 | No Comments »
The leaflet came with our last phone -bill from Telecom, and on it was written ‘Keeping you in touch with tomorrow today’. That is all very well.
A leaflet from a Bank says ‘ Thinking about tomorrow? Have a chat with Monique today.’ Monique is an Investment advisor and you can talk to her about planning [...]
Filed under: Short Stories English on July 21st, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Between one of the doors into Lynn Mall and McDonald’s in Auckland you can see a monument and on that monument you find the following writing: LEST WE FORGET
In memory of those who served and gave their lives.
When I was reading that today I was straight away thinking: LEST WE FORGET
IN MEMORY OF HIM [...]
Filed under: Short Stories English on July 15th, 2007 | No Comments »
On the leaflet I picked up today was written ‘NZBLOOD’ with a drop of blood dripping from the letter N. It continued ‘Give someone a gift of life…..Give Blood At…. ‘ and then the place.
In this case it was the Kaitaia Children’s Complex. And then the exact time. (Day, Date and Hour)
I get from this [...]
Filed under: Short Stories English on July 15th, 2007 | No Comments »
It happens almost automatically that I look into the shop windows. It happened again today. The shopwindow was the window of a pharmacy. There was a poster and on the poster it said: ALL YOU NEED IS [...]
Filed under: Short Stories English on June 30th, 2007 | No Comments »
I cannot forget the little note I read many years ago on board the good ship “Tui” in Waitangi in the Bay of Islands. It said that the diver called Mr Harper lost his life diving for treasures off the Three Kings Islands in the north of New Zealand.
Kelly Tarlton’s “Tui” is a museum of [...]
Filed under: Short Stories English on June 8th, 2007 | 1 Comment »