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Organic oats, filtered water, cinnamon, tiny pinch of salt, wheat grass, blueberries and Manuka honey! I think I added too much wheat grass!! It tasted good though...
18 Something sweet
Standing out from the crowd. The whole bush was covered in buds and blooms.
Thank you for your favourites. :O)
The Broom Tea Tree, also known as Manuka Myrtle, is a species of flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae, native to south-east Australia and New Zealand. It is typically a shrub but can grow into a moderately sized tree, up to 49 ft. or so in height. It is evergreen with dense branching and small leaves. The flowers are pink, occasionally white, with five petals. The wood is tough and hard.
Otupae Station is located about halfway between Taihape and Napier and covers an area of 8632ha, of which 5100ha is in grass with 165 paddocks. At an elevation of between 580m on its western boundary on the banks of the Rangitikei River to 1380m on its eastern boundary with Mangaohane Station, Otupae can be bitterly cold in winter and almost desert-like in summer. Snow can fall any time of the year. (My parents who were on Mangaohane Station in the early 1950s experienced a white christmas...a very heavy fall of snow for summer)
About 16% is cultivatable, 41% moderately steep hill country and 43% very steep including mountainous country within the northern Ruahine Range.
The area is normally regarded as summer safe in spite of the annual average rainfall being only 900mm. It is normally evenly spread throughout the year, one of the strengths of farming in the area.
Soils on Otupae consist of various sedimentary rock types – mainly greywacke and consolidated sandstones and limestones – overlaid on all but the steep slopes with volcanic ash from either Taupo or Tongariro eruptions.
As would be expected on such a large station with contrasting contour, soil nutrient levels are extremely variable.
Many people consume manuka honey, from New Zealand for its health giving properties whilst others will enjoy its taste! But one thing is certain - no matter what reason, the stuff is damned expensive, probably because it can only be produced in one area of the world, New Zealand and even then in a relatively small area of that country!
This is yet another photo uploaded that is of little photographic merit, with the attention of eventually getting an Explore award to rival the numerous Lego ones in the past!
Taken on a Huawei P30 Plus.
I’m a little under the weather with sinus and ear issues. Besides an antibiotic, the doctor advised me to put 2 tsp of manuka honey and lemon juice in a cup of hot water and drink it. It really soothes the throat and helps clear the head. At $21.00 a bottle, the honey is a bit expensive, but it helps and tastes really good.
Photo has been created using ceramic tile pieces gifted to me by my youngest daughter Laurie after she returned from her recent trip to New Zealand.
The heart is a symbol of life and love, and the word 'aroha' means love in Maori. The Pohutukawa and Manuka are native New Zealand flowers.
As we gather together this Christmas season and as we celebrate the birth of our Savior Jesus Christ, let's remember to be a little more gentle, thoughtful, kind and forgiving of all the people we love the most- family, friends, neighbors and also everyone we come in contact with. It's the season of joy, so let's have fun celebrating together.
Here's a short excerpt I'm fond of from the children's story Winnie the Pooh:
It occurred to Pooh and Piglet that they hadn't heard from Eeyore for several days, so they put on their hats and coats and trotted across the Hundred Acre Wood to Eeyore's stick house. Inside the house was Eeyore.
"Hello Pooh, Hello Piglet," said Eeyore, in a glum sounding voice.
"We just thought we'd check in on you," said Piglet, "because we hadn't heard from you, and so we wanted to know if you were okay.
Eeyore was silent for a moment. "Am I okay?" he asked, eventually. "Well, I don't know to be honest. Are any of us really okay? That's what I ask myself. All I can tell you, Pooh and Piglet, is that right now I feel really rather Sad, and Alone, and not much fun to be around at all. Which is why I haven't bothered you. Because you wouldn't want to waste your time hanging out with someone who is sad, and alone, and not much fun to be around at all, would you now."
Pooh looked at Piglet, and Piglet looked at Pooh, and they both sat down, one on either side of Eeyore in his stick house.
Eeyore looked at them in surprise. "What are you doing?"
"We're sitting here with you," said Pooh, "because we are your friends. And true friends don't care if someone is feeling sad, or alone, or not much fun to be around at all. True friends are there for you anyway. And so here we are."
"Oh said Eeyore. "Oh."
And the three of them sat there in silence, and while Pooh and Piglet said nothing at all; somehow, almost imperceptibly, Eeyore started to feel a very tiny little bit better.
Because Pooh and Piglet were there.
AA Milne, E.H. Shepard
The old bridge over the Rangitikei River.
Built between 1923 and 1925, the Springvale Suspension Bridge spans the Rangitikei River, near Inland Patea’s Springvale Sheep Station.
European farmers settled this remote area of Rangitikei from the late 1860s, but in the early 20th century it was still relatively isolated, only being accessible using a crude road between Taihape and the port town of Napier. After World War One the Government initiated a scheme to open up and develop areas like Inland Patea. The resulting Taihape-Napier Road enabled increased transport efficiency for farm produce and Hawke’s Bay travellers connecting with the Auckland-bound trains. Motorised transport was becoming increasingly popular at the time and this was factored into the Springvale Suspension Bridge’s design. Initially referred to as the Erewhon Bridge, the single lane structure was replaced in the road network in 1970 by a nearby, modern, Callender-Hamilton Bridge.
The Springvale Suspension Bridge was designed by Sydney Arthur Robert Mair (1872-1961), who spent 46 years as the Rangitikei County engineer. Mair was also a founder of the Institute of Local Government Engineers of New Zealand (1912) and the New Zealand Society of Civil Engineers in 1914 (now known as IPENZ). Built by William Salt (1887-1929), the bridge’s span is 61 metres (m) and its reinforced concrete towers are 7 m tall. While a number of similar bridges were constructed in the North Island during the period, replacement programmes, like the comprehensive one carried out by the Rangitikei County Council in the 1960s and 1970s, means the Springvale Suspension Bridge is a rare example of a local early 20th century suspension bridge.
The bridge was the first engineering heritage structure to become a New Zealand Historic Places Trust (NZHPT) property, in the late 1970s. This is evidence of a broadening of what New Zealanders consider to be heritage. The Springvale Suspension Bridge, now (2013) used as pedestrian bridge, remains a notable local feature.
Je ne manque jamais de passer du côté de Polynesian Spa à chaque fois que je visite la ville de Rotorua. C'est toujours un plaisir de m'approcher de son lac que j'ai vu pour la première fois lors d'un séjour linguistique et culturel à Auckland il y a plus de 50 ans.
Manuka / árbol del te / Leptospermum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Plantae
(unranked):Angiosperms
(unranked):Eudicots
(unranked):Rosids
Order:Myrtales
Family:Myrtaceae
Genus:Leptospermum
Venison, steaks, salami, patties, sausages, bier sticks, bacon, bacon hocks, manuka smoked, peppercorn, garlic, chilli
Tamahere Country Market, near Hamilton, New Zealand
Tamahere, Waikato, New Zealand
Cortinarius carneipallidus (formerly Cortinarius subcalyptrosporus) is found in Nothofagus (beech) forest in New Zealand in the autumn months. The Wikipedia article on Cortinarius subcalyptrosporus claims that specimens of this in New Zealand are in fact Cortinarius kioloensis but this is incorrect. Cortinarius kioloensis is found under Leptospermum (Manuka or New Zealand Tea Tree).
It has many healing properties. Best known to heal wounds. Great on skin blemishes and scars.
Manuka honey also has antibacterial, antiviral, and anti-inflammatory properties that may help treat numerous ailments, including irritable bowel syndrome, gastric ulcers, periodontal disease, and upper respiratory infections. It's also regarded as "super food"
The Tregothnan Estate in Cornwall has been breeding the rare Manuka plant (a native plant from New Zealand) since the 1880’s. Usually only in flower through June, the rare bushes are seemingly confused by the year's fluctuations in climate and are, in a bizarre twist, flowering now during our winter solstice, which ties in perfectly to the normal summer soltice flowering time over in New Zealand. Country File Magazine.
We were amazed to see the first flowers appear the Manuka plant in our South Wales garden at the end of January!
Now the bees are enjoying it through May and June.
Have a lovely Sunday everyone
View over the Rippon Vineyard to Lake Wanaka March 10, 2014 Central Otago, South Island, New Zealand.
We stayed in Wanaka two nights and it was lovely and sunny and very warm... didn't want to head home again!
Rippon Vineyard is situated on the shores of Lake Wanaka, Rippon Vineyard and Winery has the oldest commercial vines in Central Otago and one of the most stunning settings.
The first experimental plantings took place in 1975 and many people thought Ralph and Lois Mills were dreaming or mad. Despite the mostly negative opinions of the viticultural experts of the time, the climate data that Rolfe collected was encouragement enough for them to plant their first commercial vineyard block in 1982.
The Mills family still own and run the vineyard which has been in the family now for five generations. Their primary interest at Rippon is to foster wines which are a true and accurate reflection of their surroundings.
Granted custodianship over this very special piece of land, the family’s principle goal is to create vins de terroir, wines that are an accurate reflection of their surroundings.
It may seem an unlikely combination for one of New Zealand’s former top skiers to be head winemaker at a well-known vineyard, but for Rippon’s Nick Mills it is a perfect blend. In 2002, he returned home to Rippon after years spent competing in freestyle skiing and perfecting his craft in Burgundy.
Taken from and for more Info: www.newzealand.com/int/article/rippon-vineyard/
The weather was awfully glum with mists and low clouds and spatterings of rain. Now and then a bit of less gray. But there I was anyway on the very northern coasts of New Zealand's North Island. It's a really remote area and wild with steep inclines, sheer cliffs, long sandy beaches. And wild vegetation among which lots of Manuka, Leptospermum scoparium. Usually the flowers are white, but occasionally they're pink, such as this one.
Interestingly, Manuka honey - now so much on the tongue of health-food junkies - was not much eaten by the Maoris. But they did use Manuka shrubs and plants for various other purposes. Manuka honey didn't become a sought after agricultural product until European Honeybees were introduced here in the early nineteenth century.
Both insets were taken more or less from the same vantage point.
The righthand inset shows the lighthouse of Cape Reinga - Te Rerenga Wairu. It's one of the Maori's most revered places because this is where human spirits are thought to return to their Traditional Homeland. Much in the way and terminology of - say - the natives of the Cook Islands and other Polynesians as well. See my earlier www.flickr.com/photos/87453322@N00/40645429071/in/photoli....
On the left is another northern cape of New Zealand. First European to sight it was of course Abel Tasman (1603-1659). He named it after that indefatigable woman Maria van Aelst (?-1674), wife of Tasman's patron, the governor of the Dutch East Indies, Antonio van Diemen (1593-1645). She was a force to be reckoned with and remade the governor's mansions at Batavia (now Jakarta) and Bogor (Buitenzorg) in a grand style. Moreover she had a way with men - she was widowed several times and happily remarried. No doubt our Abel had also been mightily impressed by her. Hence Cape Maria van Diemen.
Pure fantasy since I have started to have one teaspoon of the Manuka honey before retiring to bed. I started om January 1st and the quality of sleep is astounding. Saying that though, there is an enormous range of Manuka both in quality and price.
Before someone treated me to a couple of jars I never really liked honey on its own and even now just one teaspoon is enough for me.