It was with great excitement that the day finally arrived when Vegemitevix, Kiwi expat blogger extraordinaire, and her ‘Englishman’, came to our house for dinner! Well, dinner sounds way too grand… it was a hastily thrown together BBQ – with the potatoes nearly forgotten about and the salad pre-bought from the supermarket and chucked in […]
Month: January 2011
Our baby turtle & a shark sighting
It was a surreal day at Lyall Bay. The fog rolling in banked up on the horizon and engulfed the hills around the bay. News of a shark sighting only hours before added to the erie feeling. A fin had been spotted for a few seconds. The beach was closed for swimming, as a precaution, […]
Water babes are LOVING having their Daddy home :)
There’s barely been a day in the past week when our girls haven’t been playing in water (thankfully out of choice, not due to flooding – poor Queensland, Australia is in awful strife). We’ve been keeping out of the midday sun and heading to the local swimming pool – or Dan’s taken the girls further […]
Looking Back on 2010
First words of each month of the last year… January (Late pregnancy, summer holidays and welcoming Grandma and Granddad from England.) Five day’s into 2010… The weather in Welly is being a tad dicey for us, but we’re grabbing the good and sheltering from the bad (wild winds + late pregnancy hormones = unpredictable mother […]
Theme for Week 3 of Lyrical Sunday (9 Jan 2011)
This week’s theme is ‘Flowers’. It’s summer in New Zealand, so we are surrounded by beautiful blooms, but if you’re tucked up in the Northern Hemisphere please feel free to indulge and take your mind on a trip to warmer seasons. I have included some links to flower themed poems by famous poets. I read […]
Lyrical Sunday: Week 2 – ‘Holiday’
Holiday Essentials by Sarah A holiday to take the cares away, A break from routine, with a change of scene. We left the clutter of the house behind, Took just the basics, to restore the mind. Jandals and togs. Buckets and spades. Bats, balls and Some books to read. A sketch book to draw in. […]
New Year’s Day 2011: Starting the Year on a Positive Foot
This morning we made the most of a cooler day, with cloudy shade, and set off on a local walk at Te Raekaikau Point: Te Ranga a Hiwi Track. The last time we did this walk we hoped to find our way through the bush and come out at Princess Bay – but got completely lost and […]