Hi everyone - I want to set my availability for 60 nights (M...
Hi everyone - I want to set my availability for 60 nights (May 1st t0 June 30th). I live in NYC where you have to have a min...
I love hosting because it’s great for our mental and physical well being, to share and enjoy nature and heritage.
Some of my loveliest guests have said they like the details in my listing and that their families helped them decide who to stay with which I think is sweet.
They’ve contributed in their own ways as to how I've evolved in my hosting, as have the fabulous members here in Community Centre.
Spending time amongst nature is one way of maintaining one’s health. I’ve a wee garden with Monarch Butterflies along with been Centrally located to a variety of gardens and areas where rural life is still present.
Occasionally my guests get to meet and spend time walking my friend’s dog, Zara the Jack Russell who has had a head rub from Prince Harry!
I give guests cuttings from my garden & Tulip bulbs that were gifted to the people from Cornwall Park, One Tree Hill, Auckland, New Zealand when there garden staff remove them to replant the garden beds so we can all share the love and beauty of nature to unify as one people in the world.
I gift some of my Swan Plants to share the love with our delightful "Monet the Monarch" caterpillars & butterflies.
Monarch butterfly resting it’s body between the Geranium leaves, that I grew from a cutting, immediately after it came out of its chrysalis - Guests like a safe & comfortable resting place too.
Monarch butterflies enjoy living in my Swan Plant, Geraniums, Lilies, Sweet Peas and Lavender plants. The Sweet Peas were grown from seeds, their pods produce seeds Hosts can share.
Central To All Home & Location is close to Cornwall Park / One Tree Hill Domain, Auckland where Irish settlor, Thomas Henry, created one of the original farms which is to remain in perpetuity as a Domain for the betterment of all New Zealand people.
It’s a friendly place where one can mix with nature, see lambs & sheep, pat the calves, cows & bulls, enjoy flowers from all nations, play archery, cricket, rugby league and relax away from the hustle and bustle of city life.
Guest Corrin, NYC, USA, who had not seen lambs since she was a child, making new friends on our visit to the Park. We nicknamed these bottle fed lambs Louis, Henry, William, George and Arthur. They are all Rams growing up and still recognise Zara and myself.
It’s fun to incorporate Guests in day to day life in one’s location.
Our Guests mental health and well-being is important to, animals and nature can help one relax and ease homesickness.
Do you take your Guests to places they may not have experienced before?
When Guests wake up in a different place they can be like a newborn animal waking up to new surroundings.
“Maaa, that was a great sleep, Baa, nice to meet you!”
This twin lamb a couple of days old woke up with a yawn whilst its companion kept one eye open on watch.
New Zealand is known for woollen products like carpet and clothing. We used to have more sheep than people.
Hosting guests who have chosen to stay with me in my home & share an interest in history and stories is a passion I enjoy.
Forget-me-Not flowers and Periwinkle planted on Mount Hobson Domain are some of the self regenerating Botanicals gifted to New Zealand people by David Hay and Son, Montepellier Nursery in the 1880’s so future generations would not have to worry about financial expenses in the years ahead.
Flowers of all nations were planted in areas for our betterment, so we would all feel Welcome and at home wherever we are in the world and originated from.
Do you have an area in your location like that to share with your Guests?
If not, help create one, 2019 is 100 years since the start of the Peace Commemorations after World War 1 ended.
Periwinkle, one of Her Majesty The Queen’s favourite flowers on a tree that fell over during a storm in the 1930’s, The Depression era, left to decompose naturally where centipedes, millipedes, lichen and other species make their home.
Mount Hobson is named after New Zealand’s first Governor Captain William Hobson. His Grave is in the Symonds Street Cemetery where they are undertaking a restoration project.
Dilworth Avenue is named after James Dilworth, who once owned Mt Hobson and gifted land for a school for disadvantaged boys. He is buried in the nearby St Marks Anglican Church grounds where one can reflect on how those early settlers before us lived in much more challenging times.
I’m very thankful we have access to fabulous newspaper & photographic archive websites dating back to the early 1800’s where sage one’s before us recorded valuable information.
Whilst I’m a host in a more recently built home such archives have helped improve my knowledge as a Host to share with those interested in family, world history, 23andMe and Heritage.
Have you considered researching your own home and location for it’s history in similar archives to include in your listing and to share with Guests?
Thanks
These photographs are from a recent outing at the nearby to my home, Cornwall Park in Auckland.
I call these special lambs The" Invictus Lambs" as they remind me of those who have had injuries and overcome challenges placed before them in life and what can be overcome to lead as normal a life as possible.
One of these lambs has had an eye popped out since birth which used to be quite white, it's now changed to more of it's normal colouring.
Another one has it's leg in a splint and is still hoping along very contentedly.
It's incredible what those who work with animals can do to help them despite speaking a different language.
Despite these lambs being differently enabled they are positive, happy creatures.
Next time you are at a Park near you, or on holiday, or enjoying an Animal Experience, see if you can see any animals that may have had injuries or are differently enabled. Pause and take a moment to treasure the amazing animals we have in our lives.
Thanks @Quincy , stopped to think of you & others who enjoy their Dutch Zoute Drop Mix as we spent some time at Takapuna Beach swimming and sunbathing to keep healthy.
Nothing beats great weather & the nicest of treats.
Hahaha this photo won't upload the right way either no matter how many times I've tried to get it to do so, another one to flip along with that of a couple of @Ian-And-Anne-Marie0 awesome owls. thanks in advance.
Heres an image made wrong - to look right - just to give a different perspective on things...
Gotland Sheep Ewe and lamb by the Woolshed and holding yard at Cornwall Park, Auckland, New Zealand/ Gotland sheep lamb with glorious self created necklace - who needs a piece of jewellery when one can grow one's own naturally??
Sheep will and do eat leaves in the paddocks and off the trees they can reach.
It's quite amusing watching them eating leaves that are often quite large for there little mouths.
They are known to munch on the same piece of grass for around 50 bites - I know that wee gem of a fact as I counted them !
My guests are missing out. We have three owl babies nesting in our gable wall above the hot tub. They can be watched being fed by their mother after 10.00pm most nights.
They're causing me stress at the moment as one fell out of the nest and was joined by a sibling the next day. We're hoping they're grown enough to survive... This morning two escapees were seen in a low fruit tree until later disappearing - somewhere.
omg @Ian-And-Anne-Marie0 @Quincy @Ria16 @Miloud0 and others those Owls are so adorable.
How young are they @Ian-And-Anne-Marie0 ?
We used to have owls on the farm and still have them from time to time around our city.
I imitate there song which is a little naughty as like other animals they are calling to their siblings and parents.
We have a Shag that is named Dog at Orakei Marina in Auckland as it's a friendly as a dog!
Note the way that 'Dog the Shag" beak is front on, it's not often one is privileged to be so up close and personal in a Wild birds proximity. An incredible experience.
Dog gets a good feed of fish from those at the Marina so if you are in the vicinity, Dog doesn't need any extra or different types of food as Shag's eat FISH.
