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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We love mushrooms! In autumn we can sometimes pick them from our fields. Recently we read about growing our own shiitake mushrooms. We bought some 'dowels' (see the photo below) and prepared some logs. About three weeks ago we chose a suitable branch from an old plum tree. I cut it down and put it in the shed to dry a little.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">These are the 'dowels'. They are pieces of wood that have the shiitake mushroom fungus inside. You can see the fungus has made them a little furry!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">First I drilled holes about 10 cm apart for the dowels. I put some red tape on the drill bit so I knew how deep to drill. By turning the log I got 18 holes in this piece of wood.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">Finally we put the logs in a cool, shady place. The bricks are to keep the logs off the ground. It takes about six months for the mushrooms to fruit, I hope it works! The mushrooms continue to fruit until the logs have been completely eaten by the fungus. I have never eaten them fresh, here in Gisborne you can only buy dried shiitake!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Last week, Thom's teacher told his class about 'Geocaching'. It's a hobby where people hide a container called a 'geocache' and post the location on a website. It's like a treasure hunt! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Thom really wanted to do it so we used the website to find one close to us. There is a geocache hidden near a waterfall only a few kilometres from our house! Actually, there are many geocaches hidden nearby. We followed the clues and found the geocache. Luckily it was quite easy!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">My daughter made some little origami cranes to put in the geocache and Thom put in a marble. After we put the geocache back, the children enjoyed playing at the waterfall. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It is a very peaceful spot and usually there's no one else there. My wife and I both enjoy taking photographs. She found a beautiful spider and I found some interesting fungus. If you don't like spiders don't look below!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">It was a fun trip, I think we'll do it again! Have a look at the website, I bet there are geocaches close to your home too!</span><br />
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Kiwi Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14105084572014804991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7991909606037444510.post-73787834715842136202013-04-27T18:13:00.002-07:002013-04-27T18:13:09.582-07:00Autumn Fruit<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It's now the middle of autumn. The days are growing shorter and the temperatures are falling. Earlier this month it rained for several days. That was good, I was worried about how dry the weather had been. Our fields are green again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Do you know what this fruit is? It's called a guava. It isn't the big tropical guava you can buy in a can. It's small, about the size of a marble, and very tasty! Our tree is still small, they grow about 3 metres high. Guavas make great jam too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Here is another wonderful autumn fruit. It's called a 'feijoa'. Like the guava it comes from South America. New Zealanders LOVE feijoas. This year they are quite small, probably because of the dry summer. They are sweet and juicy! </span><br />
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<br />Kiwi Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14105084572014804991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7991909606037444510.post-29129712235093314772013-03-20T18:00:00.001-07:002013-03-20T18:03:07.817-07:00'ago' and 'in'<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Describing when something happened, or when something is going to happen can be difficult! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">'ago' always means a time in the <strong>past:</strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When was the picnic? It was <strong>two weeks ago</strong>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Three months ago</strong> I bought a new car. (or: I bought a new car <strong>three months ago.</strong>) - either is ok. =)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We can use <strong>'ago'</strong> even if we don't know exactly when something happened:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Long <strong>ago</strong> people lived in caves.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">If something happened one week / one month / one year ago we would usually use <strong>'last'</strong>:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">We use '<strong>in</strong>' when something hasn't happened yet:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Now</strong> o-------------------- two weeks ---------------------o <strong>Picnic</strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">When is the picnic? The picnic is <strong>in two weeks</strong>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">My new job starts <strong>in</strong> <strong>three months</strong>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I usually like lots of insects in our garden, but not this one! This is an 'Asian Paper Wasp' nest. The wasps sting and they also eat caterpillars. I noticed we didn't have many Monarch Butterfly caterpillars this year. I went looking for nests and I found this big one on a wall. After taking the photo, I sprayed it with flyspray.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">Here's a Monarch Butterfly feeding on an orange cosmos flower. We plant lots of flowers for butterflies. They especially like the orange cosmos plants, they must have good nectar. Can you see it's tongue poking into the flower? This one is quite old, it's wings are faded and damaged.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In summer there are lots of vegetables growing in the garden. Our tomatoes are ripe and we have lots of beans, green peppers, 長ネギ and courgettes. This is our bean patch, every day we pick some beans. My wife planted them, she is good at growing vegetables!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">These are courgettes, sometimes they're called 'zucchinis' too. We pick them when they are this size. If you leave them they grow huge! When they get big they are called 'marrows'. They taste best when they are small. Courgettes and beans taste good together!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Recently my wife found a great website. It has information about local walking tracks. We like to walk together so we chose to do the Te Kuri Farm Walkway. One day we'd love to travel to other countries and do many walks. At the start of the track there were some friendly goats =)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is an adult Magpie Moth. Many moths fly at night but these ones are active during the daytime. Can you see the stripy body? They were quite beautiful!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This morning my daughter Lyra asked if we could go to the beach. My wife and I thought it was a good idea. We haven't been to the beach for a long time! There are many beaches to choose from. We decided to go to Wainui Beach, it's about 20 minutes drive from our house. It's a long, sandy beach. As you can see, the weather was great today!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Lyra and Thom both love going to the beach. There are always interesting things to do. They usually get very wet and sandy! It's too cold to swim in the ocean yet. The water doesn't get very warm until January. <br /><br />I'm glad it's summer. Spring went very quickly! In about three weeks the school term finishes. Children then have a 6 week holiday. <br /><br />Today was a nice start to summer!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Every November the "Turanganui Schools' Maori Culture Festival" is held. Most kindergartens and schools have a 'Kapa Haka' group. Kapa Haka means Maori songs and dance. <br /><br />This year, for the first time, my children's school sent a group of five and six year olds. It was an exciting day for Thom! He was a little nervous before the event. Here are a couple of short videos I took. The first one is a 'Taiaha' drill. A Taiaha is a traditional Maori weapon. The second video is a 'waiata'. Waiata is the Maori word for song.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">It's a strange but often-used phrase! Here are some more examples:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">- I ran out of toothpaste, so I went to the supermarket to buy more.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">- The video store had run out of copies of the DVD I wanted to watch.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Children in New Zealand love Guy Fawkes Day because it's the only time of year that you can buy fireworks. We went to a friend's house and had a barbeque. There was a beautiful rainbow, it was very bright! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In this photo you can see my daughter Lyra with a 'sparkler'. She had lots of fun. Sparklers are quite safe so they are good for children. When I was a child you could buy a lot more kinds of fireworks than now. Many kinds, like rockets, are no longer sold because of the risk of fires. Also because some people didn't use them carefully they caused injuries.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This kind is also popular, they are bright and noisy! The children watched the fireworks happily. Because it's nearly summer here it wasn't very dark. My children go to bed quite early. Thom, who's five, goes to bed at 6.30 pm. Lyra, who's just turned 8, goes to bed at 7.30 pm. They both get up at 6.30 in the morning. In autumn we usually have a bonfire and light some fireworks then. It gets dark early at that time of year!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">'The children watched the fireworks happily.'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">You can make many 'feeling' adjectives into adverbs by adding </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">-ly. This is very useful!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">sad - sadly </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">happy - happily (be careful, the 'y' becomes an 'i'!)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">angry - angrily (be careful, the 'y' becomes an 'i'!)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">nervous - nervously</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">excited - excitedly</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">hungry - hungrily (be careful, the 'y' becomes an 'i'!)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">shy - shyly (be careful, the 'y' DOESN'T become an 'i'!!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">- The children watched the movie excitedly.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">- The dog ate the meat hungrily.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">- Bill answered nervously.</span><br />
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<br />Kiwi Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14105084572014804991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7991909606037444510.post-57541999485746833322012-10-31T13:24:00.000-07:002012-10-31T13:24:42.874-07:00Morning Ride<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Today the weather is great! The sky is clear blue and there is little wind. The area where we live is very flat so it's great for cycling. When the weather is nice I often go for a ride in the evenings, but today I went in the late morning. The temperature was about 20 degrees. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If you ever want to know what my weather is like you can click this link: </span><a href="http://www.metservice.com/towns-cities/gisborne"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">http://www.metservice.com/towns-cities/gisborne</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Last month it didn't rain much. We usually have about 75mm of rain in October, but this year we only had about 25mm. In this photo you can see an irrigator watering small tomato plants. Many old farmers think we are going to have a hot, dry summer. They are usually right!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Recently I found this interesting page. It lists the 100 most-frequently occuring words in English. On average they make up 50% of the words used in writing: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">It might be useful to you to see if you know and can use them all!</span>Kiwi Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14105084572014804991noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7991909606037444510.post-63903169112788896282012-10-26T23:28:00.000-07:002012-10-26T23:28:31.334-07:00Vegetable Gardening<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Last month we decided to make some more garden beds for summer vegetables. In this garden we're growing zucchini, tomatoes and peppers. We want to be healthier and I believe eating lots of vegetables is important. We can't grow all our vegetables, on a Saturday morning I visit a vegetable market in town. I hope we can one day grow all the vegetables we need! I think we'll make more and more gardens in our yard. =)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Here is one of my best friends in the garden. In spring you can hear bees buzzing everywhere. This one is pollinating a boysenberry flower. All our citrus trees are flowering at the moment. The garden is full of bees and the sweet scent of citrus blossoms.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">You can see the bees have been very busy here! These boysenberries are beginning to swell and darken. In about six weeks they should be ready to eat. I will put some netting over them so the birds don't eat them before we do!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">1. You would like to change something that happened in the past:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">- I wish I hadn't eaten all that cake!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">- I wish you hadn't bought that ugly phone.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">2. You want something to happen in the future but it's unlikely:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">- I wish it would stop raining! (The forecast is bad)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">- I wish I could win the race tomorrow. (I'm not a good runner)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"> - I wish to leave early in the morning.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">- I wish you a Merry Christmas. (I want you to have a Merry Christmas)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">'Hope' expresses a want for something to happen that is more likely. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">- I hope you enjoy your birthday party! </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">- I hope I win the race tomorrow. (I'm a good runner.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We have about 2 hectares of land. Most of it is divided into grass paddocks. To keep the grass short we have sheep. We have 10 ewes (adult female sheep) and a ram (adult male). In spring, the ewes give birth. It's a nice time of year. Watching the lambs run around is very cute! This year we have 15 lambs. Yes, ewes often give birth to twins. Sometimes they even have triplets!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">These are our chickens! They live in a coop beside my orchard. Sometimes they lay lots of eggs, but sometimes they get 'broody'. Broody means they stop laying eggs and just sit on the nest boxes. We don't like buying eggs from the supermarket. We would rather eat 'free range' eggs because the eggs are tastier and the chickens can live a happier, more natural life. You can buy free range eggs at the supermarket, but they are quite expensive. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">- I would rather go to the beach than go to a movie.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">- He would rather eat dango than look at flowers. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">- Would you rather have the tea or coffee?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">'rather not'</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">- I'd rather not wear that hat.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">- I'd rather not lend him more money!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">- It is rather windy today.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">My children go to Makauri School. It's only about three minutes drive from our house. We take them to school and collect them by car each day. Makauri School is a 'primary school'. In New Zealand, children start school when they are five years old. After about six years at a 'primary school', they go to an 'intermediate school' for two years, then 'high school'.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Most schools in New Zealand, even in cities, have large fields. Children love playing on the grass when the weather is nice. Makauri School has about 190 pupils. There is lots of room for them to have fun. There are also many trees and other places to play. I am glad they can go to such a nice school. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It's the middle of spring now and the weather is warming up. Today the temperature is expected to reach 23 degrees. That's great! Goodbye Thom, have a great day at school!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is a photo of my biggest apple tree. The blossoms have nearly all gone. The bees have been working hard, lots of small apples are growing. I don't like using 'pesticides' in my garden. Pesticides are sprays which kill insects. I don't like to spray but if I don't, moth caterpillars will eat the apples and pears. I know spraying will kill other insects too. That always makes me a bit sad.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I found this wonderful bug sitting on an orange leaf. In English it's called a ladybird or ladybug. Ladybugs are great, they eat many harmful insects. They especially like aphids. Insects which help in the garden are called 'beneficial insects'. We try and attract them by growing plants they like to live in.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In these buckets we make our own 'fertilizers'. A fertilizer is something which helps plants to grow. On the left is 'seaweed tea'. I made it by going to the beach and collecting some seaweed. The seaweed rots in the bucket making a really good natural fertilizer. Yes, it smells terrible! On the right is animal manure tea. It is made in the same way of sheep, chicken and donkey manure. It smells bad too!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Every year the Spring Show comes to Gisborne. It's an important day! Children love going to the show. There are lots of fun rides and good things to eat. There are also small animals for children to see and touch. I took this photo from the top of the ferris wheel! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">The Spring Show is important for farmers too. There is new farm machinery to look at and old friends to meet. There are also competitions in horseriding, shearing and dog handling. Many local businesses set up tents to attract customers. It is a very busy place. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">The weather was great today and we had lots of fun. We usually go early so it isn't too busy. My son Thom really loves eating. Here he is eating a hotdog. It's a fried sausage in batter with tomato sauce. They are popular in New Zealand but not very healthy!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">We had a great day in the sun. When I was a child I loved going to the show. It is nice to see my children enjoying it now too. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Gisborne is on the Eastern side of the North Island. There are about 40000 people in Gisborne. The climate is quite good. Summer is warm and winter is not too cold. Sometimes the summers are very hot and dry. Gisborne is famous for its beaches and also for producing very good wine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Last weekend the weather was very nice so we went to a beach called 'Tolaga Bay'. It takes about an hour to get there from our home. Tolaga Bay is famous for its wharf. The wharf is over 600 metres long, it's the longest in New Zealand! The beach at Tologa Bay is nice too.
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">"Growing things makes you feel good."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">'.....<em>makes you feel good'</em> is a useful phrase. Here are some more examples:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Helping a friend <em>makes you feel good.</em></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">Swimming in the sea <em>makes you feel good</em>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">Learning new things <em>makes you feel good</em>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">Being kind <em>makes you feel good</em>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">What makes you feel good?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"></span><br />Kiwi Davehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14105084572014804991noreply@blogger.com6