The days are shorter, but they’ve still been sun-filled and autumn has been easy on us so far (though winter is forecast to arrive a week before the official start – with snow expected on high ground tomorrow). Our weekends have still been filled with lots of outdoor time – soccer for hubbie, runs by […]
Sarah
Country Child in Country City – Wellington
Wellington never feels like a city – unless you’re stuck in the depths of the CBD or visiting the cathedral. It’s a city sandwiched in hills on a harbour. There is greenery aplenty and a whole harbour to sail away on. This week my youngest daughter, Miss 3 – Alice, made the most of this […]
Silent Sunday
Things I’m Loving
Always a pleasure to end a week by reflecting on the ‘loves’ from the week (especially whilst sipping a delightful Pinot Noir from dear hubbie!). The little things are often what make a good week, such as finishing a good book. This week I’ve been consumed with, ‘The Sisterhood‘, by Helen Bryan. It holds a […]
Thank you, my daughters, for a perfect Mothers Day x
It was Mothers Day here in New Zealand on Sunday. My daughters, without knowing it, gave me one of the best Mothers Day I’ve had. More than anything, a mother wishes for happy, content children and no major scuffles to break up! Miraculously, the whole day was one of peace, sunshine, blue sky and even […]
Silent Sunday
LOVED… Luge riding, in Queenstown, New Zealand
Before we even got our helmets on for luging, we had the thrill of a ride in the Skyline Gondola to the top of the hill overlooking picturesque Queenstown, in the South Island of New Zealand. The views from the gondola ride were beautiful – but we were in for a lot more excitement. The […]
The colourful side of the wind in Wellington
When the wind whistles through dear Wellington there’s a place to be, where the wind is God. it turns wind to song, when birds don’t feel strong, and planes fly with daring, nose to the wind. Wind lights rainbows of engineering the stronger it blows, brighter the colours glow. The forests that strain, under windswept […]
Prose for Thought | Invisible
My poem this week sums up the feelings that many of us, especially parents, feel in any week. Life is a roller-coaster and some weeks there seems to be a little more fluctuation than others on the way. I’ve had so much on my mind and sometimes I find reading the news doesn’t help to […]
Back to school…
Day one, term two in New Zealand. And, after several months of sunshine, no wind and little rain, it was an absolute shocker of a morning for school drop offs. Thankfully, I didn’t have to battle the weather (hubbie kindly dropped our school goer off – Miss 9, Charlotte – before catching a plane up […]
T.G.I.F. from ‘The Belly Family’!
I feel like, if I’d worn a pedometer, my mileage walking around the house this week would definitely equate to at least one marathon! With all three children at home – and none of them really showing any great desire to get out of the house – it’s been surprisingly ‘full-on’ for me. They’ve all […]
LOVED… Puzzling World & playing on the shores of Lake Wanaka
A highlight of our holiday was ‘Puzzling World‘ in Wanaka. Dan and I had visited it over ten years ago, when the original maze was there, but since then an amazing array of attractions have been added. The maze is challenging, with 1.5km of passages. I’m sure I saw a sign saying ‘On average a […]
The Leaf | Prose for Thought
It fell like any other leaf, having given one last show of colour. It lost its grip, as the daylight diminished, and the winds started to blow. I looked up, as a whirl of wind caught my breath, and took me in its autumn dance. The golden leaves formed a tunnel, wrapping me in their […]
The Photo Gallery | Self Portrait
The Photo Gallery theme this week is, ‘Self Portrait’. Lately I’ve been putting myself in-front of the camera a lot more frequently – in response to my children often asking, ‘Where’s Mummy?’, when they look through photo albums of themselves from their younger years. The majority of the time I am behind the camera, capturing […]