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Celebrating 20,000 blog hits

May 12, 2017 By sue 3 Comments

I am celebrating reaching 20,000 blog hits (averaging 1000 hits per month since 2016 and 1500 hits last month - woohoo!) after nearly 3 years of writing my blog. I know that some people get that many hits in a day but my aim was to have information that was going to be useful and enduring for people rather than just be gimmicky or sensational with the aim of 'going viral'. Frankly, I'm amazed that over 50 people a day are finding something useful on my blog. Thanks to everyone who has … [Read more...]

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About Me

July 6, 2014 By sue 3 Comments

My name is Sue and I live in suburban Auckland.  I have a full-time professional job but I have always loved cooking, gardening and a range of crafts and dream that one day my portfolio of jobs will include something that embraces at least some of those things in a home-based venture. I also love to travel so I will have to keep the professional job for the foreseeable future to allow me to finance that 'habit', but perhaps I can blend in travel and travel-writing with my dream. I have a … [Read more...]

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A Reluctant Blogger

July 6, 2014 By sue 2 Comments

How on earth did I get into this?  I have a bare minimum Facebook page that I only set up so that I could see what it was all about – and so far I’m still fairly unimpressed.  For a long time I was greeted by the somewhat depressing “you have 1 friend” and visited so seldom that even the Facebook system had to say “welcome back”.  I did at one stage have 4 friends and then made the radical decision to de-friend two of them because they kept sending me things I wasn’t in the slightest bit … [Read more...]

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Life’s Bounty is about all the things I enjoy experiencing, creating, and sharing. Join me as I travel in search of new experiences; coax more produce from my backyard in Auckland, New Zealand and preserve the harvested bounty; and try my hand at making anything from cider to jewellery to cards to gift packs of soap.
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