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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
Lovely Mare 💕 Mary
The True Master Chef
Jacques Genin hand carved chocolates Easter Egg 2021.
@Stephen1156 Amazing listing!
Feel free to shared in @Helen427 Awesome thread! Using nature to nurture and de-stress your mind
