Heaven Bent Gospel Choir

Heaven Bent is a gospel choir based in Auckland. My friend Nancy sings in the choir, and I have had the privilege of enjoying their music cds over the last few years and I follow their progress with much interest. This morning I enjoyed watching another of their performances on TV this morning. If you’re

Flower festival

Today was the last day for the flower festival at the Catholic church in Belper. The flowers were very pretty as was the church. My favourite one was the one with the shepherd made from jute bag hessian.

I am my brother’s keeper

Tales from the Kava Bowl Present Suli Moa’s A Heart’s Path “I am my brother’s keeper” Directed by: Kate-Louise Elliott, Assistant Director: Matariki Whatarau Produced by: Natalie Malietoa-Moa From the writer of “Kingdom of Lote”, Suli Moa presents his second play; a contemporary Tongan tale, that takes you on a journey through the obstacles of

Five bands …

The Allestree community were gathered in the local hall this weekend for a fundraiser for the CRY charity. It was a very well attended event, and the variety of bands was impressive. We missed the first band unfortunately, but I heard they were a brilliant opening act. The highlight of the night, in fact was

The name of the insect is …

Did you guess the name of that green insect? I put photos of the green insect on this blog seven days ago. It reminded me of a grass hopper. Then name of this insect is … “Grillo”. And it is … a grass hopper! So as we are in Italy, they call this insect Grillo,