It’s been jovial week in the Middle of Middle Earth with much merriment at the market and frolicking at sunset.
Breakfasts have rolled into elevenses and lunch, with little space between, and liquid fuel has been a necessity for kick starting the day – as well as a little magic ale for ‘chillaxing’ with at the end of the day.
There’s been a Guinness World Record broken on our local beach, with the most sandcastles to be built in one hour totally 1,564 – smashing the previous record of 683 – which was set in Britain a few months before.
There’s been a world premiere, red carpet event in the city (you’d have to have been on planet Mars to have missed it!).
And an Air New Zealand Hobbit adorned jet plane flew low over our house on its way to the red carpet flyover…
And I loved watching this video on the last minute touches to The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey – they were literally working right up to two days before the premiere! It’s incredible to see the technological work that goes on behind the scenes to make a movie in this age.
Now we’re bracing ourselves for the countdown to Christmas (last night we went to ‘Carols on the Lawn’ for Charlotte’s annual sing along – which helped to get us in the spirit – so far I’ve just been thinking ‘spring cleaning’!).
Looking forward to a long, hot summer, with plenty of outdoor fun and adventure!
Just got to get through one more school week for Charlotte… an eighties disco tonight, a pantomime next week and her ‘Love of Dance’ weekend of shows (and dress rehearsals prior to that), then I’ll have all three of my little ducklings home to chase around after.
I better go fill the advent calendar boxes Charlotte made (blog post about them here) and organise some activities for Sophie and Alice to keep them amused too!
They are certainly active children (Grandma and Granddad are you sure you want to spend six weeks with us in January and February!) x
This is what happened last night – on return from ‘Carols on the Lawn’ (a little improvisation acting based on nature images flashing up on the TV)….
Related posts
July 19, 2013 Things I’m Loving
March 25, 2012 Things I’m Loving: 500 Sandcastles
May 13, 2022 Changing seasons, changing times
November 4, 2014 A stroll to our ‘local’ in Lyall Bay- April 4, 2014 What’s the theme tune of your life?
June 23, 2013 The winter solstice storm that struck Wellington, June 2013 | A Poem
Thank you for posting such a gorgeous picture of my favourite part of the world – looking across Island Bay beach. We are so lucky to be living in a such a vibrant, dynamic city. 🙂
What a fun week to be a Welly dweller hey! We also saw the Hobbit plane as it zoomed off after its flyover – so cool! I didn’t make it to the artisan market but it looks really well done 🙂
What is Sophie about to eat and where is it from??? Looks amazing!!
Banana split from Scorch-O-Rama!!
Thanks, we are incredibly lucky 🙂
What an amazing time going on there with the Hobbit and all….just amazing shots of all the fun and celebrations….Wellington sure knows how to put on a show and felt I was there with all the shots of the activities and all !!…love seeing all this.Had a good weekend here with Trish and Andrew visiting us and now gone to visit Alice and family in Devon.Big hugs all round and thanks again for all the wonderful pictures of the amazing time going on there in New Zealand.
neat photos and videos
Billy said “I was there for the last one :)”
looks like a fun week 🙂
LOVE the look on Sophies face with the banana split 🙂
NZ is totally rocking the Hobbit….great excitement to see everywhere I bet. xx