The Selfie collection
Click pics for  fun facts about me.


I just realised from the pics I have like three outfits.


Tomorrow...Today

July 9, 2016



My son Nathan Henare Astwood, known to many as Naffa, was born on 10 July 2016,
Yes, this little angel, is going to be 34 years old.  He will be spending the day
 at Cape Kidnappers, playing golf and being treated like a king...well done.


He was breach birth and for weeks before he was born the doctor tried to turn him around.  
They couldn't.
It hurt.  (Me lots)
So they took an x-ray and he was sitting, facing my back,arms and legs crossed with a 'F*ck you' look on his face.  
Well he was born in Wellington Women's hospital and was almost half way out in the taxi outside in the car park, (two weeks early, after Id carried six bags of groceries up Brooklyn hill.  Ah Duh!)  


Naffa

As you can see he was gorgeous. He still is.
 He was also brilliant, and he still is.  
I am not just saying that because I am his mother, no, no, no.  All of my children are creative, brilliant and talented.  
This kid could read the newspaper at three years old.  Draw great sprawling maps of the world real and made up.  He also started playing Golf at 5 with cut down but real golf clubs.
He was a super serious child and from the age of 4 to six loved wearing suits with bow ties.  He still rocks that look.
Now, he is beyond clever and we think he knows almost everything in the universe.


Nathan's 7th birthday Cobb and Co where he had his first traffic light. 

I could write all the amazing things that he has done and achieved in his 34 years but the thing I am most proud of is the fact that he is such a kind, lovely and strong man who is passionate about everything life.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Nathan with is sister Jenna-Rose, his Brother Tamati ,
and his nephew Griffin

He is a great big brother and a fantastic eldest son.


 

Cheers ears, have a fantastic day,
Love Mumsyxxxxxxx
 

It's been a while...

June 30, 2016

hineAtua

Seven months actually...

as I have been writing, and finally, to the relief of publisher, editors, and anyone waiting for my next book 'Thread through the Whariki' I finished it.
 Hazaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 Right now it is being read by the two most important people in my writing process - apart from me - and they will get back to me with their feedback...*bites nails anxiously*
No--no I am not terrified at all...or anything like that, I mean hey, its only been a fecking year of my life...grrr...
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another blog in November omg

November 26, 2015


(I do NOT photoshop any of my selfies, I just like steak and cheese pies which fills in the wrinkles hehehe)

I went to the hospital today to get hormones checked, omg being 53 sucks.  Not funny actually, I have to get some damn exercise, but I can't as my fecked up Thyroid won't let me move beyond 10% of my previous abilities, so until thats sorted, by arse will just keep spreading and I get knackered by rolling over in bed - oh yey.

Heart of the Tapu Stone Trilogy.

When I first decided to write...

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Impressiveness

November 22, 2015
 


Kia ora peeps,

Yeah I know, two blogs in November, it is a banner month for Dusky.  On the 14th of November we launched our new novel "Feather from the Kākahu" Yeyyyyyyyyyyyyy  If you haven't already been inundated by our pictures of the event check this page out...http://www.duskyproductions.com/events.php  See the people in the picture above...if it wasn't for them, I could NOT achieve ANYTHING!  That is true Whanaungatanga and Manaakitanga folks.

Well, as the Euphoria of that triumph morph...

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Blog tastic

November 3, 2015



Hi everybody, 

I know this is probably very "Oprah-y" and "Naf", but I don't give a flying fec through a stained glass window.  I am going to start this blog with what I wrote on the facebooks this morning and qualify each point so you - whoever you may be - will know why I am so grateful and also why I write such "Oprah-y" and "Naf" stuff every day.  

To get this started there are a few things you need to know about me.  I am %# that is 53 years old.  I have Graves disease which is a thyroid d...

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Fecking BLOGS

October 22, 2015
The thing about Blogs is that my life isn't exciting enough to fill more than a couple of lines a month.  I spent most of my time working, and there ain't anything fascinating about it - arse meets bed - fingers clatter over laptop keyboard or when designing its draw, draw, draw,  scan, photoshop, click mouse, click mouse, click mouse.  That's it.




So I am going to cheat...I'm going to take bullet points out of my gratefulness journal...(yes I have one - shut the hell up!)

GRATEFULNESS -

B...

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Short Story - Girl you are to me

October 7, 2015
 I saw Smith across the District Court waiting room.  

He will always be just Smith to me; not DS Smith, DI Smith or whatever police rank he was now Smith.

He stood, head bent toward a small Asian girl, who wobbled on six inch heels, her tiny body vacuum packed into black lycra.  

His words had her flattened up against the wall.  

Her solicitor, a small thin man, in an ugly grey suit, hovered like a mosquito asking for a slap.  Smith turned away from them both as if he were disgusted him and ...
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Obsession

September 25, 2015
No picture as my camera toting laptop has died and I have my husbands non camera toting laptop

The only noise you hear out of my room at the moment are the keys of my laptop clicking away like Spanish castanets and Nigella, Ina Garten (the barefoot contessa) and Nigel Slater talking food at me.  Also the sound of my arse growing fatter, if I didn't usually eat only hummus and rice crackers during the day.  
But I love dinner with my husband and son.  I haven't been cooking lately as I've been i...

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I've fallen in love again

September 12, 2015


Showing off my Cailin Moran, Cruella De-vill, Yvonne De Carlo ( Lily Munster)
grey streak in my - completely natural - hair
I am 52 and I am working my way to white hair and a black streak

Yes, you read the headlines right, I have fallen in love.

I have fallen head over heels in absolute adoration and love with an amazing woman, feminist, author, columnist, screenwriter, incredible, uber fast talking (as in the fastest talking woman I have ever heard, is there a word faster than fast than she is ...

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I am useless and amazing at the same time :) "Character"

August 26, 2015



love...love...love 

Hi everyone.  I have been fecking around for a month unable to focus on anything.  I have written words in my novel, but I doubt they are very good words, and they will probably have to be replaced at some time in the near future.  
August is never a good month for me (I'm sorry to all those wonderful Leo and Virgos out there who find this time of year very important to yourselves) It's the time where impending Spring gives Winter a damn good slap and breaks its back.  Its a...

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Not good at keeping a diary, my brain is a bit too random but will have a decent go at it.   

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Olivia Giles Kia ora everyone, I am Olivia, I am a writer, and an artist, welcome to my hectic mad world.

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