{"id":43761,"date":"2026-04-27T19:34:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T07:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=43761"},"modified":"2026-04-27T19:36:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T07:36:12","slug":"a-long-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2026\/04\/27\/a-long-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"A Long Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’re just coming to the close of the ANZAC Day<\/a> long weekend here, with a few more days tacked on in my case, so I could spend time both in the mountains and beside the sea.<\/p>\n

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Early morning<\/p><\/div>\n

The photos are from Hanmer Springs, not far from Christchurch, and as you can see, it’s getting a bit brrrh<\/em> in the mornings and evenings now. And yep, you’re right, that’s definitely snow on the hilltops.<\/p>\n

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Sunset<\/p><\/div>\n

But as you can see, I’m enjoying the break.<\/p>\n

However, if you would like to check in on ANZAC Day’s commemorative meaning, here’s the selection of previous ANZAC Day posts that I pulled together for last year:<\/p>\n

ANZAC Day: April 25<\/a><\/p>\n

The ANZAC Memorial and the Words of M. Kemal Atat\u00fcrk<\/a><\/p>\n

ANZAC Day and the NZ Novel<\/a><\/p>\n

ANZAC Day and NZ Poetry<\/a><\/p>\n

Some ANZAC Themed NZ Children\u2019s Books<\/a><\/p>\n

ANZAC Diary: A Nonentity in Khaki<\/em><\/a> by Anonymous<\/p>\n

NZEF Trooper 203453<\/em><\/a> by Leigh Vickridge<\/p>\n

Ellen\u2019s Vigil<\/em><\/a> by Lorna Staveley Anker<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’re just coming to the close of the ANZAC Day long weekend here, with a few more days tacked on in my case, so I could spend time both in the mountains and beside the sea. The photos are from Hanmer Springs, not far from Christchurch, and as you can see, it’s getting a bit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funstuff","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43761"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43767,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43761\/revisions\/43767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}