BBQ

A special day for me which was made more special by friends sharing it with me.  A day of PD (Nathan Mikaere Wallis is always worth listening to and had us enthralled for well over an hour then, later in the day, Marcus Akuhata-Brown.  Wow!  What an amazing, inspirational, thought-provoking man.  Impossible to summarise his talk - one of those things you just had to experience.  

When the 'work' part of the day was over it was a brief-ish trip home to get things together, then off down to Rabbit Island to share some relaxed and special time with a wonderful group of friends and colleagues.  A lovely way to gently acknowledge a special day.

And Rabbit Island itself?  What a M-E-S-S!  The storm from a few days ago has caused enormous destruction to the waterfront - dunes disappeared, wooden steps to the beach seemingly suspended in mid beach, trees down, the stench of decaying animal or fish hanging in the air and roads closed.  I'm sure the council will have things 'fixed' reasonably quickly, but in the meantime, it's a sad sight.