Mijts Blog

Under our stairs there is always a laplap tied to the posts! Nick snapped these photos (with his new Iphone – Christmas present!!!) – during his lunch break yesterday. If you look at this close-up you will notice a little bundle inside! Kayline, who is two years old still has a sleep or two during […]

My current definition of BLISS: R&R in Brisbane – unlimited fresh fruit and vegies; a weekend on the Gold Coast with hockey friends (despite the lack of sleep!); lunching with friends; popping over to the city on the ferry – SHOPS!!; reliable fast internet; a late afternoon round of golf; etc; etc………….

Over the past few weeks I have spent two afternoons a week at a local Primary School making cards with them to sell at their forthcoming fete. I printed some shapes and pre-cut pieces for the younger children to make the following cards: This simple design using squares was a favourite with the older kids […]

I love Christmas! For several years now, I have made all my Christmas cards. Last year (being in PNG and needing to fill in time!) I got a bit carried away – and made many more cards than I needed! I make my cards by using up scraps of paper and card from my scrapbooking. […]

Where we live in PNG the soil is not suited to a garden. We didn’t even bother to have any plants in the first 18 months as regular ash fall from the volcano killed any plants that were around ……BUT…….. the volcano has been inactive for several months now (except for one short burst!). Stephanie […]

Just over a year ago, Maria started volunteer work in a local Secondary girls’ school – OLSH. She quickly realized that they were very under-resourced and, in particular, only had a few computers for over 700 students. Nick discussed this with a staff member at Suncorp – where he had previously worked. After several emails […]

Finally got time to finish posting about the Mask Festival. We are in Brisbane for a break at the moment and the time is flying by! On the Saturday morning Nick and I went up to the Mask Festival. We watched three different cultural performances. The first performance was by the West New Britain Patogrety […]

After the dawn arrival of the boats to open the mask festival, the activities moved to the local football oval. On the Wednesday afternoon I took the wife of Nick’s boss up there as the program said that the mud-men were performing at 1pm and I was keen to see them. It was an interesting […]

The Mask Festival was held here over four days of last week. We missed this festival last year as we were in USA for Ben’s wedding – so we were really looking forward to experiencing our first mask festival – and we weren’t disappointed! A bit of history first: The first National Mask festival was […]

A couple of big shakes here last night. I was watching golf on TV around 11pm when the house started to shake and creak, things fell off shelves, not unusual – BUT when the fridge started to rock I ran to the bedroom to wake Nick to get out. He was already up and trying […]