It’s a first for Charlotte! She has mastered most of the climbing frames in Wellington and I knew she was ready for a climbing wall: so we headed to Fergs Kayaks on the waterfront. She was SO excited and a complete natural. She needed little instruction apart from a gentle reminder to not hold onto […]
Month: November 2007
A Taste of Summer
Friday brought beautiful sunshine to Wellington and the girls delighted in a chance for some water play in the garden.
Animal Antics
An egg in our mail-box! Two black-birds trapped in the living room – which I had to catch by hand and release (and then clean-up the mess!). A cat with a sore tooth, which lost the tooth on the way to the vets (Charlotte says the cat fairy will be visiting!). A lost dog called […]
Guy Fawkes: A Dwindling Event?
Guy Fawkes is still celebrated in New Zealand, but the private sale of fireworks is under threat. Even in York, England, and other places in the UK there will be no big bangs and bonfires as local councils get increasingly risk-averse. We usually stock up on a box of sparklers, to use for special events […]
A bird who thinks our mailbox makes a great nest!
Mailboxes aren’t quite the same in New Zealand: Birds nest in them! We drove up our driveway to see a bird flying in and out our mailbox with twigs in its beak! For the past few days we thought a neighbour was trying to tell us something (clean-up your driveway!); but no, it was simply […]
Whilst waiting for the car to pass its W.O.F….
The best thing about taking one’s car into Wellington City for a W.O.F. is no parking fees – yah! With the weather warm and calm we whiled away a couple of hours at Waitangi Park before making our way back to the garage to see how our ‘ole motor was getting on. Anticipating a probable […]