A Otumoetai wordsmith has made it his mission to make people happy and hopefully to also make them think.
Retired couple Jim and Chris Schwarz said they had been blown away by the positive feedback to the uplifting messages and sayings posted on a blackboard erected on the fence at their Otumoetai Rd home
Mr Schwarz said the idea for the blackboard came about after seeing a humorous saying posted on a blackboard outside a gift shop in Paeroa about two years ago.
He vividly recalled it read: "A bicycle can't stand by itself because it's too tired."
"I thought it was not only really funny but also true. I thought the blackboard was a great idea and set about making and erecting my own," he said.