Good morning from a warm Hastings day. Yes I am back from Wellington. I had a fabulous time with my daughter and her flatmate. Lots of laughter, and lots of walking – phew. But more importantly, lots of new photos – 99% non flowers. Needed a break from my florals.
Anyway we went to Te Papa, our national museum. Peter Jackson and Weta Workshops has put on this big display showing our involvement at Gallipoli. It was very sobering and emotional to go through. As an ex-nurse I was interested in this hospital ship and the role that nurses played in looking after our wounded soldiers.
This photo is a mock up of an hospital ship showing how the men were looked after in different levels according to rank.
This is for Jennifer Nichole Wells‘s prompt this week, which is blankets – lots of hospital blankets here.
I will catch up with everyone at some point but have lots to do.
Thanks for visiting.
Hi! Glad you enjoyed your visit with daughter and friends. 🙂 It can be tiring, but a change always seems to invigorate.
I did look at the Te Papa site and am sure it was very interesting and would take more than one visit to see it all.
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It is an amazing place to visit. I love all the different exhibitions they have on as well.
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glad you enjoyed your trip, can’t wait to see your pics………just for the record I really like your florals, but a change is nice too 🙂
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Thanks Julie. I wanted to have a change and not focus on florals. Wellington’s architecture was amazing
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So I’ve heard
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Welcome back and I’m glad you had fun. Gallipoli is a sobering point in history, so I can well imagine the museum (or at least that part) was as well.
janet
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Thanks Janet. It was very sobering and makes you grateful for their sacrifices
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It does that. We felt the same when we toured the museum at Omaha beach a few years ago and all the battlegrounds and cemeteries.
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I’m so happy you had a wonderful time with your daughter. Love that there was laughter and fun:) This is a serious photograph and it always makes me feel bad that things, even sick/wounded are treated accordion to RANK. There shouldn’t be any rank anywhere. That’s what wrong with the world. Privilege. Privilege will be the death of us.
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I know. But it was those privileged men, with no training who led our ANZACs to their deaths. We were just canon fodder – send the antipodeans in first – it doesn’t matter if they died. And then they took all the glory.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Murdoch.
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That’s wonderful that you had such a lovely time visiting your daughter. I’ll miss your flower photos but I know that these will be great too! 🙂 ❤
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I did enjoy my time with Ruth. I love florals but decided to spread my photographic wings, so to speak
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Good! I’m sure you’ll do as well with them as you do with flowers! 😊❤️
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Welcome back. Hope you had a fab time. Looking forward to seeing the photos 🙂
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Thanks Steve. Had a ball – now have to sort out all the photos
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Sort mine as well please. I used to be so organised with them!
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That’s really interesting. I love museums. Garry too.
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It was fascinating. Love museums.
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I know I’m late to this, but I’m so glad you had a good time with your daughter. Love the image you’ve shared for this!
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