Grandparents ROCK!!

What do YOU like best about your Grandparents?  Do they give you treats?  Take you out for lunch or a fluffy?  Maybe they let you help bake bikkies or mow the lawns?  Perhaps you're allowed to watch dvds or play CDs and dance around the lounge?  Or maybe grandpa takes you for a ride on his motorbike??  Or maybe GRANDMA does??? hahaha - now THAT would be cool!


I'm having 2 concerts in Nelson soon and inviting you to bring your Grandparents along, if you can.  I've written a special song just for them (watch out, because they have to dance and sing along!).  I asked a whole lot of people to tell me what they call their grandparents and then I came up with a Bridge (which is a part of a song) with as many names as I could fit in.  This is what I came up with - see if YOUR grandparents' name or names are in there:

Koro, Kuia, Noni and Pop

Nandi and Grandi, the names don’t stop

Gaga, Wee Nana, Wrinkley too

Meme (maymay), gangan and Nanni Blue

Chief, Bob-Bob and Nana Breadtag

Nanna Spanna’s a bit of a dag

Ruffles and Peaky, The Great Ging-Ging

Yogi and GranJan sure can sing

Oma, Opa, Grammy and Buppa

Gammer and Gaffa love having a cuppa

Roy Nana takes her dog for a walk

Miggy and Grandude love to talk!

White Grandma and Caravan Grandad

GG and 3G sound kinda rad

Noonie, Gamgam and Grandad Japan

Nagymana (nudge mumma) and Nagypapa (nudge papa), Hungarian

Glamour Granna and Mimi WOW!

Call out the names of your grandparents NOW!

Don't forget to tell your grandparents you love them and maybe give THEM a treat next time your staying and take them breakfast in bed!  Ask them first though and don't try to cook anything on the stove by yourself.

Auckland so far

I arrived on 8th May and so far have visited Parnell, Ponsonby, Birkenhead, Greenhithe, Sommerville (twice), River Valley, Don Buck, Chelsea, Takapuna, Kingsdene and One Tree Hill Kindergartens, Tiny Tots Northcote (twice), Blue Frog, Lancaster Learning, 8's Enuff, Little People (twice), Dynamic Kids, Allsaints Creche, Sunny Days and Kids At Play.  It's been fun going to all sorts of different places around Auckland and getting to know my way around a bit better.  Everyone has been so friendly and all the kids were fanTAStic!
I've busked at Coatsville Market, been on The Great Big Kids Show and Bfm's Sunday kids show with Finn.
Today I went to the Avondale Market and bought my fruit and veges and made a yummy vege soup for tea!! Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm
I wrote a song especially for Grandparents recently too - it has a lot of names that different people call their grandparents - it's the Bridge in my song - here it is - see if your grandparents names are in it:

Koro, Kuia, Noni and Pop

Nandi and Grandi, the names don’t stop

Gaga, Wee Nana, Wrinkley too

Meme (maymay), Gangan and Nanni Blue

Chief, Bob-Bob and Nana Breadtag

Nanna Spanna’s a bit of a dag

Ruffles and Peaky, The Great Ging-Ging

Yogi and GranJan sure can sing

Oma, Opa, Grammy and Buppa

Gammer and Gaffa love having a cuppa

Roy Nana takes her dog for a walk

Miggy and Grandude love to talk!

White Grandma and Caravan Grandad

GG and 3G sound kinda rad

Noonie, Gamgam and Grandad Japan

Nagymana (nudge mumma) and Nagypapa (nudge papa), Hungarian

Glamour Granna and Mimi WOW!

Call out the names of your grandparents NOW!

Well!  Go on, call them out!  You might have 4 - you might have more!  You might have less too and that's cool.  I haven't got any grandparents now - but I still have a Mum and she's a Nana to my daughter and her other grandkids.

Thanks Wellington!

Some fantastic gigs in Wellington - left Picton on 18th April and sung my way over - that's my red car in the queue!

 Here are some of the kids I sang to on the Ferry - I had to switch off the tele.....they didn't mind.

Moana Lodge is an awesome backpackers with friendly people and a fantastic view out over the sea and Mana Island - I walked around the sea lots of times

I taught Nicci and Gwyn to knit while I was there - Nicci is from the UK and Gwyn from Singapore...

Good fun at my Plimmerton concert

What beautiful butterflies.....

Thanks to Clyde Quay, Island Bay and Owhiro Bay Kindys, Rata St School and Montessori Children's House Miramar for such fun gigs at your place!

Thistle Hall  is a really lovely and extremely reasonable venue.  Thanks for coming and singing with me!  Here's a whole lot of pictures of us all having a good time...

Time for a lullaby....don't think anyone went to sleep though....

NZique is a very cool craft shop with HEAPS of different things - if you're looking for the perfect gift, head to Jackson St, Petone and you'll definitely find it.  Lovely small, appreciative crowd...

And then it was night time and the moon was almost full..

See ya next time Wellington!  Thanks for having me!

Fun at Plimmerton!

Wow, what an energetic crowd at Plimmerton today!!  You kids were great!  And the adults joining in too....singing, dancing, actions - phew!  A beautiful sunny day.  I think I enjoyed singing....You've Got Food on Ya Face the best!  Which song did you like the most? 

Wow, the facepainting was AWESOME!  Snakes and spiderman and flowers and butterflies.....you all looked AMAZING!! 

And we even made up the chorus to a Plimmerton song!
Plimmerton (clap clap clap)
By the sea (clap clap clap)
The place for me (clap clap clap)
and my family (clap clap clap)

Look forward to hearing more of it next time I'm here!!

Geepers! Time flies!

Let's see.....I've started writing a song about Bubbles....I spent a bit of time blowing and watching them to get ideas...I also thought about writing a Rainbow song....it will be based on ROYGBIV - and yelling the colours out.  Do you know what ROYGBIV means??  It's the first letters of the colours of the rainbow, in order!!  RED, ORANGE, YELLOW, GREEN, BLUE, INDIGO, VIOLET.  Cool huh?

It was Purple Cake Day on 1st March and we had such a lot of FUN visiting schools and preschools seeing what they'd done - here's a photo of me in last year's PCD outfit!

I've been working on two School Songs and songs for a new Primary School Production - I love writing - do you?
I've been to the Plunket Fair and the Toy Library Fair here in Nelson and I'm going to work in Auckland in May for a couple of months - hopefully I'll see you there!!

More Mapua Fun!

We have finished at the Park - you should really come next year (well from 27th Dec this year actually) and we'll be there doing things, making things and generally having fun!  Here are some more photos!
Here we are trying to keep the tide back....eventually the tide won.....

We try not to injure too many people....but Josheph's toe looked pretty impressive....eeeouch!!!

BINGO!!!!  The whole family love this game AND the prizes!

Wow, there were some awesome creations at Clay Play!!  Nice one you guys, you made some coooooool things!

Next, cricket skills......CATCH!!

And in the evening....toasting marshmallows....yum, yum, yum!

........then the MUD GIRLS turned up!

Mapua Leisure Park

Over a month has gone by since my last post! I've been down to Oamaru, Dunedin and Christchurch for a week on a Christmas holiday, then back to run the holiday programme at the Mapua Leisure Park. Wow, what fun we've had!! We've made dragons, dinosaurs, played with clay, made lanterns, treasure maps, pancakes, dart, painted pet rocks, played all sorts of sports and games, special Friday the 13th scary masks, icky scones and had a FEAR FACTOR challenge.

We've also made rafts out of bamboo - here are some pictures of some of them.  The first one is the wnner!! Evie's was the only one that stayed afloat!!

Here's some pics of our scary masks on Friday 13th!

And here are our ICKY scones!!!!  Eeeewwww!  But they tasted GOOD!!