All posts in category Solomon Islands

Full Time

As you would know (if you read this blog – despite the fact that I seem to post quite infrequently) I am working at Blick Creative full time as a designer. This post is mostly to mark how much I am enjoying it, despite this week being a lot of simply learning the ropes. The [...]

Past houses

Speaking of houses, a friend recently went to the Solomons and they took a photo of the house we used to own and lived in for some time! Weird. And super cool. We used to do school in that bit to the side. It was on a lean back then too.

Mission is not for pansies

My fingers are not as fluent as they are with a pen as they are with a keyboard so here is my confession that my journal writing was not so up to scratch as I would have liked while being away. In a small way my brain stalled. I will share what I did wind [...]

SI.02 Last thoughts before returning to my other homeland

Should there be some almighty drumroll? I surely don’t deserve it, I haven’t put half as much thought into any of this as I would’ve liked. Tonight we fly to Brisbane, tomorrow to the Solomons – about a 3.5hr flight – the country I grew up in. They spot interviewed us at a ‘team meeting’ [...]

SI.01 Pre-thought

I have made some allusions to heading overseas shortly. We leave on July 2nd for the Solomon Islands, where I grew up, for the Pijin Bible dedication – which is what my parents have been involved in for a very long time. Geoff and I are overseas for 10 days, the rest of the crew [...]