It’s all about ‘E’ on the home-schooling front this week. Whilst Sophie’s busy drawing extraordinary elephants, and exploring the earth with Alice, I am focusing on enhancing my energy levels to ensure I am enabled to entertain, educate and endure. How? Coffee (note the LONG ‘e’ sound there)… There’s nothing better than grinding up fresh […]
Month: August 2011
Lyrical Sunday & Haere Ra to Happy Feet
We didn’t set a theme for Lyrical Sunday this week, but Charlotte and I did write a little poetry – in honour of our webbed footed friend who travels home to the sub-Antarctic tomorrow. The Dominion Post and Wellington Zoo ran a poetry competition this week (read the winning entries here), dedicated to the Emperor […]
Loving a touch of spring and off with the locks!
Last week snow, this week sunshine and flowers. What a change in the weather! ♥ All of a sudden it’s light till 6pm and with the clocks rolling forward in a few weeks time we are feeling the joy of spring. We’ve had a few lovely days this week. Weather for swinging open windows, flinging […]
The Gallery: World Photography Day
August 19 was World Photography Day‘. In celebration of the amazing world of photography Tara, at ‘Sticky Fingers’, asked us to take a photograph on that day, or over the weekend, for week 71 of ‘The Gallery’. She said, “Make it a photo to treasure for generations to come; family life, a moment, a precious […]
Super biker Sophie takes the long road home!
Sophie beat her personal best and rode 10.6 km on Sunday! We’d spent Sunday morning enjoying the delights of the food market in the city, but when it came to head home Dan and Sophie took to their wheels! Charlotte and I took Alice home for her nap and had a restful hour or so, […]
Silent Sunday
Something Blue
It’s been a weekend of blue, in a very happy, sunshine kind of a way! This was our Saturday afternoon… We made the most of the sunshine at wonderful Scorching Bay, where we rocked climbed, dug in the sand, tossed a frisbee around and drank coffee at Scorch-O-Rama (whilst feeling a little ‘star struck’ at […]
Diamante Wind to Calm
It’s been a blustering, wild week of weather in Wellington. After a relatively mild autumn and winter, with plenty of sunshine days, it was an extreme shock to the system to be faced with a week of a snow, sleet, hail, thunder, lightening, torrential rain and howling gales. At first it was exciting, but as […]
The Gallery: Black & White
There have been many ships wrecked in these seas. The Cook Strait – the deadly passage of water that lies between the North and South Island of New Zealand. A ‘perfect storm’ has struck the country this week, blanketing ground in snow and touching even the ‘winterless’ north of the country. It’s the kind of […]
Theme for Week 28 Lyrical Sunday: Diamantes
In case you missed it – it’s been snowing in Wellington (see here and here)! This has led us to some snow-flake activities at home and the idea of writing a shapely poem that would fit on a snowflake, which we could hang as a piece of art, for week 28 of Lyrical Sunday. Visit […]
Happy Feet sniffs the good stuff!
There’s been a special fella hiding out at Wellington Zoo. He was rescued from a beach on the Kapiti Coast. Poor chap had swam all the way from Antarctica and found himself in a temperate climate with no ice to eat, just a beach full of sand. In a desperate attempt to cool himself down […]
That time it Snowed in Wellington!
The last time it snowed in Wellington was back in the seventies. It’s exceedingly rare, especially at sea-level. A ‘Facebook’ page, ‘That time it Snowed in Wellington‘, has already been set up with thousands of people sending in their photos from all the city suburbs. Our gnome down at sea-level in Welly is digging it! […]
‘B’ poems for Lyrical Sunday
A lovely poem from Grandma too… “The beautiful bond of love that binds us together Is like a band of gold that cannot be broken.” __________________________________________________ Welcome to Week 27 of Lyrical Sunday with the theme of ‘B’. If you’d like to join in then please link up below. The link-up will remain open all […]
Taking baby dolls for a walk…
Nearly 18 months old and Alice adores teddy bears and dolls. Bears, dolls and boxes are her favourite toys. With Charlotte it was a train fascination at this age – we collected trains and track, read ‘Thomas the Tank Engine’ and took bags of trains out with us wherever we went (though there was one […]