What’s been on my calendar: May #WBOYC

Thistles and Kiwis

Here we are at the last day of May, the last day of autumn and almost half way through the year. It has been a mostly sunny day, and the sunset tonight was quite spectacular (see the featured image at the top of the post).

So what was on my calendar in May? How was my theme of courage expressed, if at all?

There was dance – the Royal New Zealand Ballet’s Swan Lake and the choreographic season at the New Zealand School of Dance.

There was Eurovision….with a winner from Switzerland.

There was cooking…from a class on miso making to soups, a rather good lamb curry, a new pasta bake and an apple and cinnamon cake amongst other things. And of course I ate a lot of sandwiches! We went to the pub for dinner one evening, and I rediscovered my egg coddler.

There were events and outings…well, an evening with Trent Dalton and comedy with Pax Assadi and a short trip to Makara Beach.

There was book club, reading, and a lot of watching series and films (particularly enjoying the 2011 film, Page 8).

And of course, French classes. Oh yes and I was rather poorly for a while too.

How did courage work out this month? Well, making miso and making decisions!

Thistles and Kiwis is a Wellington, New Zealand based blog written by Barbara, who likes cats, summer, good food and pretends to garden.

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13 Comments

  1. Having to make decisions of any sort requires a degree of courage. How pleasant that your decisions could cover a range of pleasant-sounding events 🙂

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  4. A fabulous month – other than being under the weather a tad for a bit. The miso cooking class looks interesting. I just googled Savour to see if there are any classes on when I’m there (I’m over in August) but sadly not.

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  5. What a fabulous month, Barabara. Swan Lake has always been my favourite ballet. I’ve never tasted Miso but your cooking class looks interesting. I hope you are feeling better now and can move into June feeling good and ready to enjoy life. Take care and thanks for sharing your month with us at #WBOYC? x

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  7. Hi Barbara, a great recap of your month, and I believe it’s courage when we make decisions, whether they’re hard or easy ones to make. Thanks for joining us for #wboyc

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  8. Good to read about your month of May, you have had a busy time, I’ll have to forget about the rain and cold and start going to some evening concerts again.

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