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Tag: photoadaymay

Things I’m Loving & Rounding Up Photo a Day MAY 23 – 31

Posted on May 31, 2012May 31, 2012 by BritMumInNZ

LOVE the surprise of a huge pile of sand on the beach (that appeared literally over night down at Lyall Bay). Photo a Day MAY | 25th | UNUSUAL LOVE seeing Charlotte and Sophie team up and learn to play a few tunes together on their recorders (which were a Christmas present, at least two…

Photo A Day MAY | Where I stand

Posted on May 21, 2012May 21, 2012 by BritMumInNZ

My two year old is on a growth spurt, cutting her last four molars, and developing her mind at a fast pace – all this makes for occasional wake up calls in the middle of the night. Thankfully, she’s all smiles and easily placated with a couple of crisp breads with Marmite (thankfully we’ve still…

Photo A Day MAY | Something I can’t live without

Posted on May 20, 2012May 20, 2012 by BritMumInNZ

Obviously food, clean water and shelter (which I’m extremely grateful for every day) are the essentials that I can’t live without – and my heart frequently aches for the millions of people around the world that are struggling to survive without the basics. But, beyond those essentials, is LOVE. The love of my family is…

Photo A Day MAY | A favourite place

Posted on May 19, 2012May 19, 2012 by BritMumInNZ

I thought of taking a journey into my memory bank, where so many favourite places live, but in the end I wanted to capture a moment from today. It was a blustery, autumnal day here in Wellington. A Saturday morning of taking it easy. The older girls played a game of Yahtzee, whilst Alice was…

Things I’m Loving this ‘Photo A Day MAY’ | Snack | Something I Made

Posted on May 18, 2012May 18, 2012 by BritMumInNZ

LOVING these scrumptious berry muffins I made today, which were a lovely snack for a young house guest, Sophie, Alice and I. The berries were so warm as the muffins came out of the oven that I couldn’t resist adding a little dollop of vanilla bean ice-cream on the side when I served them. And…

Photo a Day MAY | What I am Reading

Posted on May 16, 2012 by BritMumInNZ

The past fortnight I’ve been gripped with ‘The Hunger Games’ trilogy. I’m nearing the end of the third book, ‘Mockingjay’. I haven’t been reading much since Alice was born, over two years ago, so it’s been great to break the drought! When I’m into a good book I feel so relaxed about everything else. I…

Grass | LOVE | Photo a Day May *Monday & Tuesday*

Posted on May 15, 2012May 15, 2012 by BritMumInNZ

Couldn’t resist combining these two, as I LOVE the varied GRASSES of New Zealand. So many colours and such varied textures – from coarse and spiky, to fine and wispy. In my back garden we have a steep bank, where nothing much else would grow successfully, and the native grasses that carpet the surface of the…

Photo A Day MAY | My Kitchen!

Posted on May 11, 2012 by BritMumInNZ

My kitchen is a place of experiments, play dough, chalk scribbles, arts and crafts. It’s a place of baking and breakfasting, preparing and cleaning. It’s seen days of babes being washed in the sink – and water splashed in a flood over the floor. Games of ‘sink and float’ in baking bowls – and flour…

Photo A Day MAY *Catchup* | Inspire, Smell, Do Everyday, Fav Word

Posted on May 10, 2012May 10, 2012 by BritMumInNZ

Yesterday was ‘Someone Who Inspires You’, Tuesday was ‘A Smell You Adore’, Wednesday was ‘Something You Do Everyday’ and today is ‘A Favourite Word’. I’m playing catch-up… (not much time for blogging, with hubbie away on foreign shores and my three daughters keeping me busy, busy, busy!). So, without further ado… Someone Who Inspires You…

Photo A Day MAY | You (howling to the full moon!)

Posted on May 6, 2012 by BritMumInNZ

There is only one photograph of me taken today – and hubbie dearest did the honours. We had walked to the top of our street to watch the full moon rise over the distant hills. We got there just in time to see the moon lighting up the sky as it peeked up on the…

Photo A Day MAY | Bird [flying on the eve of a full moon]

Posted on May 5, 2012May 5, 2012 by BritMumInNZ

‘Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me!‘ Eric Carle you’ve given my little girl the thought that she can play with the moon. She stared at the moon, saying, ‘Hello Moon!’ and then turned to me and said, ‘Fetch a ladder Mummy!’. But, as mole discovers in ‘Bringing Down the Moon‘, some things are not…

Photo A Day MAY | Fun!

Posted on May 4, 2012May 4, 2012 by BritMumInNZ

Another disturbed night of sleep with Alice (blame the super moon, molars, growth spurt, developmental surge, too late an afternoon nap… take your pick!). Lack of sleep made the thought of ‘fun’ hard this morning (and I forgot about taking a photo). I was invited to Charlotte’s school for ‘Mothers to School Day’ – 8.30am…

Photo A Day MAY | Something I wore today…

Posted on May 3, 2012 by BritMumInNZ

I LOVE Thursdays – especially this Thursday. Hubbie sometimes comes home early (4pm), as he has a tennis session at the court adjacent to Charlotte’s school. Most weeks he has to get his head back down to the grind stone for a few hours in the home office, but today I was buzzing to try…

Photo A Day MAY | Skyline

Posted on May 2, 2012May 3, 2012 by BritMumInNZ

After one of the warmest April’s on record in New Zealand, May has started with a taste of the winter season yet to unfold. Blustery winds and horizontal rain battered Wellington.  But, the sun kept shining through the dramatic, fast moving, cloudscape to reveal rainbows of light on the hilly topography that surrounds Wellington. After…

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