Early in the year I declared 2009 was to be my year of travel and, true to my word, it has been so far. I have just returned from a fantastic 5-week holiday that led me to wonderful destinations.
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Last month we launched the Hawke’s Bay Places entry on Te Ara. I’m very fond of the Bay – I spent summers there when I was young with my parents and my mum’s family, and went to school there as a teen. When I think of Hawke’s Bay I envisage clear blue skies in any season, summer-scorched dry hills, and winter-white frosts, but let’s see what else makes Hawke’s Bay.
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I was going to call this the ‘Best of…’ quiz, but I realised that idea will come in useful when I run out of ideas for the quiz and have to salvage questions from my previous posts and cobble them together as a ‘new’ quiz – like an episode of Friendswhen the actors are all on holiday. So, this is the superlative quiz.
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Sometimes you feel bad. As a little therapy for me to get over that awful feeling, I decided to research the sad things in Te Ara; and reading about accidents, failures and losing kind of helped me put things in perspective. There’s not anything in my life that’s as bad as the contents of this month’s quiz. It might brighten your day too.
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I was walking home last night, house keys in hand, and I remembered how much I liked carrying my dad’s car keys when I was younger – enjoying how grown up I felt when I held them.
Now that I have my licence, I plan to get myself a car – and some car keys … and I wonder if they will make me feel grown up.
So, in the spirit of driving and cars, here is this month’s quiz.
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