... in the beautiful warm air of Queensland!
Seeing my boy was great, but I could have done without the wet chilly weather of New Zealand last week.
Despite that we had a great time together and drove all over the North Island itself, catching the fantastic views between the sweeps of the wiper blades of our little rental car. So what's New Zealand without that bloody long white cloud?.. Nothing!
It takes all that rain to make it the spectacular place it is!
Wet and mysterious is the only way to describe some of the places we went to, no wonder they made 'Lord of the Rings' there, just the most perfect place to shoot that movie.
My son has some great carers and minders and I met them one and all, and it was like being wrapped in a tangible blanket of love, and a love of life.
I was welcomed into a community of Maori people that take Christianity
very seriously and DO practice what those old Commandments told us to do (
and BTW which most of us forget to do!).
I ended up in most of their Yoga, gym and exercise classes, alongside my boy, and phew, I think he fitter than me, as I couldn't keep up with him on those Pump Iron machines they had in there.
The week went very quickly, but we never wasted a second of it, cramming in sooo many wall to wall things to do, that I think we only survived on about 4 hrs of sleep a day. We were on a buzz, and couldn't sleep anyway.
We drove down to a little township of Morrinsville and met my uncle who I hadn't seen for 20 years, and his grown up daughter that I hadn't seen for more than 30!!!! It was a terrific family reunion and now my boy has his very own 'Family' in NZ, and I'm sure they'll be around if he needs any of their shoulders to lean on if he has a 'Black Dog Day'.
Now I'm going to ask a favour of you guys, which I know you're all good at, and would mean so very much to my son.
So here's the story, while he was in hospital after the beating, the mongrels or someone like them, broke into his rented house and cleared out all his stuff including a crazy 'Steampunk' bike he had been building for over a year from scratch. The only thing he's got of it, is a rather bad photo which I'd like you guys to do some PS magic with. Are you in? just post a reply on this 'Post' and I'll scan and upload the source image for those of you that reply.
I've shown him around our little website and explained to him who you all are, unfortunately all via the local library internet as the crims also took all his computer stuff too, and he has no current ISP address. But he
can see as a 'visitor' so I told him I'd put all the bike stuff in my Profile as soon as I get it.
One of his 'minders' called Terry has Broadband and a printer, so I plan to send all the ones (Bike Images) to my son as attachments so he can see what his bike would have looked liked like if you terrible lot had all been involved with it's construction...
See what you can do eh!
OK! OK! I know... STFUAC!
Regards
Wiz
