At Tikorangi The Jury Garden – published this morning at abbiejury.co.nz and the Taranaki Daily News. Photo: Mark or Abbie Jury.

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Second cousins Avaria and Hawaikirangi – both great grand children of Te Mana and Sophie Tipene – at their whanau noho marae along with 45 other family members, today Thursday the 7th of January 2010. The family sleepover is a chance to learn about their family heritage and strengthen family ties. Cambridge Community Marae is located on the corner of Pope Terrace / Cambridge Road and Bracken Street Leamington.

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Hair of the Dog at Rouge, Empire Court, Empire Street Cambridge New Zealand Friday evening the 11th of December 2009. That’s Paul Taranaki sitting in on drums and long time friend Julie Pescud on fiddle.

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Above the photo chain made by Chris Strange for Ben’s 24th birthday cake. Today we have been looking at video and stills of Ben’s funeral and making plans to edit and preserve it. Plans to put it online will be complete in a couple of weeks. Below the haka as Ben’s casket is about to leave Ngaruawahia High School on Monday the 26th of October 2009.

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Update Sunday 1 November 2009 16:23: This post will remain here but will be modified when a complete video of Monday’s service becomes available. There are two later posts here and here.

Gilby-Todd family photo

Benjamin Joseph Gilby-Todd
26.10.1985 – 8.10.2009

This broadcast originates here and can also be found here.

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Live stream from 2PM Monday 26/10/2009 NZDT

Order of Service

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Mike, Stephanie, Tom, Jan, Jessica and Roxy

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In memory

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will be streamed live from 2.00PM NZDT Monday the 26th of October 2009 (New Zealand Daylight Time – is 13 hours ahead of UTC/GMT) here: http://michaeljeans.co.nz/2009/10/26/ben-gilby-todd/. The link will be live from 12:01AM 26/10/2009 NZDT.

Update 30/3/2010: The video of Ben’s funeral is published here.

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Volunteer (chance seedling) This release volunteered itself and seemed appropriate to name for the International Year of Volunteering 2001. Distinctive flowers open soft pink with white edging, deepening throughout the season to dark pink, still with the white edge until the late flowers which may be pure red. Heavy textured full anemone form. Dark foliage and compact growth to 2m. Plant Variety Rights apply in New Zealand and Australia.

I have been here for two days working off and on this and other jury.co.nz projects.

“Go to Hidcote,” urged our Oakura friend and colleague, Glyn Church, “it is my all time favourite garden.” Having been ever so slightly disappointed in most of the Cornish private gardens we had seen, we headed up to Gloucestershire and hoped Glyn was right. He was. Hidcote was quite simply everything to which we aspire.

Abbie Jury Tikorangi The Jury Garden

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The line up of allotments down the road from our London hosts near High Barnet used to look very tatty and unloved when I first looked at them 18 years ago. Not so today.

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A couple of weeks of non stop garden visiting may not be everyone’s cup of tea but two heads are better than one and we hope to return inspired with new ideas. One thing is for sure though. When you are travelling across the world, it certainly helps to have good advisors who are switched on to what you want to see. We don’t have time to spend looking at very average gardens or queuing for tourist attractions. We are after hard-core gardening and hard-core gardeners.

Read the full article here: In Search Of Summer Gardens