I Told You Not To Climb The Cactus

Shelly and Sluggo go to France in search of fabulous food. Unfortunately, their adventure does not go as they hoped; bad things keep happening to them. After several traumatic experiences, they decide there is no place like home.Includes a photocopying page as a coloring in activity. Ideal for playgroups or library's or as a bedtime story.

The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit." John 3:8Times are changing. All across the western world, Christians are waking up to a new song of the Spirit. He has grown his wheat and it is white unto harvest. He is calling his laborer's out into his field. Beyond the brick and mortar walls of the church, as we have always known it, a miracle is unfolding. It takes an oddity to hear his call. It takes a warrior to answer. This is the story of a little homemade church at the bottom of the world, a changed community, and a family that heard the hymn from the harvest field left convention and dared to obey.

Few people have lived a more adventurous life than Timaru’s early pioneer George Richard Meredith. He goes to sea at eleven, falls from the rigging, and rescues a princess. Then he is shipwrecked and lost at sea for a week. During this time, he and fourteen other men in the longboat, narrowly escape death by eating his beloved dog. He is rescued and shipwrecked once more. He signs on with a ship to America but is bullied and runs away when it reaches the port. After more sea adventures he arrives in Australia. Gold fever is running high, so George and a mate run off to the gold fields. Things are going well until George has trouble with his eyes and a doctor advises him to go to New Zealand for his health’s sake. When he arrives in Lyttleton he finds work chopping wood in Kaiapoi, and helps build the Sumner Road. After a series of jobs pit-sawing, he meets a girl on the Lyttleton docks and marries her the next day. He shifts his elderly parents to Timaru, and continues carving a living out of the bush near Geraldine. Later in life he builds the first lime kiln in Kakahu, and attempts to float a coal mining venture. In 1913 at seventy-nine he leaves us a written record of his life. This first-hand account of the nineteenth century as seen by George Richard Meredith, is a slice of maritime history, and a fascinating glimpse into early New Zealand.

Forget five hours of schoolwork a day, twenty minutes (or less) of instruction combined with good mothering is all it takes. In this easy-to-read book, Wendy lays out a simple but highly effective method of teaching and answers common questions like: How do you deal with the roller-coaster of emotions home-schooling brings in its wake? What works and doesn't work? How do you juggle housework, schoolwork, pre-schoolers and your own needs without going crazy? And because a home-school is not a school in a home, Wendy paints a picture of a typical home-schooling day so we can see the difference. A must-read for women struggling with home-schooling through the coronavirus.

Romance hides in the most mundane activities if you know where to look. Laugh with Wendy as she and her husband renovate an old house and discover in the process that romance is much more than candlelight diners and soft music.