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The Photo Gallery: World Photography Day

Posted on August 21, 2014September 20, 2014 by BritMumInNZ

How do you choose one photograph to summarise a year? World Photo Day is celebrated every year on the 19th August, (but to understand more head over to the website and escape into a thousand images from around the globe). Between August 19-26 the website opens for submissions and, for me personally, it’s a wonderful moment in the year to…

The Photo Gallery | Together

Posted on April 2, 2013April 2, 2013 by BritMumInNZ

A long weekend gave us time to be together as a family – even if, at times, my mind wasn’t all ‘together’ with it! In my mind there are always people floating around – physically distant from me, but close in my thoughts, that I wish to be together with – for a moment in…

The Photo Gallery: The Letter C

Posted on March 14, 2013March 14, 2013 by BritMumInNZ

These past hot months, of the most incredible summer New Zealand has seen in decades, has been intensely wonderful. We’ve enjoyed endless evenings of playing out till dark, and days with windows flung open to let air fill the house. We’ve not had to layer up in months, our skin has been free to breath,…

Scorching Wednesday in Wellington

Posted on January 30, 2013January 30, 2013 by BritMumInNZ

It’s too hot for many words (and too hot for clothes!), so here’s a few captures from my day… The most beautiful school run, along Wellington’s south coast. With hubbie away, I’m on duty, leaving the house before 8am to make it to school on time for 8.20am. My non-schooling daughters joining their big schooling…

The Gallery | Sky

Posted on August 22, 2012August 22, 2012 by BritMumInNZ

Wellington is the home of ‘Big Weather’. The sky scape changes rapidly. It is often four seasons in one day. The clouds can race so fast that they make you feel dizzy (especially if you happen to stand under a city high-rise and look up!). From high vantage points over the hilly harbour city… and…

Photo A Day JUNE 1 – 9 | Slices of Life

Posted on June 9, 2012 by BritMumInNZ

I love taking photographs and joining in with ‘Photo A Day June‘, with a different theme every day, adds a little spin to my domestic, home-schooling, mothering duties. I normally snap the pics on my phone camera (which isn’t great – a little grainy and difficult to focus at times), but when I have the…

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…

A ride to the wild side of the South Coast

Posted on January 23, 2012January 23, 2012 by BritMumInNZ

The swell of the incoming tide sprayed on the rocks by the shore. The sun beat down and the pull of the water, after a bike ride on the south coast, was too tempting to resist. Granddad hung up his bike tour guide hat and exchanged it for his emergency life-guard cap. The water wasn’t…

Sunday snippets: Enjoying the sunshine

Posted on October 10, 2011October 11, 2011 by BritMumInNZ

After a week of rain and cold winds, with just a few snippets of blue in between, it was with great relief that we woke to sunshine this Sunday. We did the chores, mowed the lawn and then got out together and dosed up on Vitamin D to fight our snuffly noses. Here’s a few…

Shoes fit for three little Princesses

Posted on September 7, 2011September 7, 2011 by BritMumInNZ

The theme for ‘The Gallery’ is shoes and prompted me to dig out this very special pair. These were the first shoes each of my three girls wore. They’ve lasted well! They’ve travelled to Queenstown, Taupo and Auckland, from our home in Wellington, New Zealand. They’ve never actually ‘walked’, but crawled, bum-shuffled and scooted around…

The Gallery: Black & White

Posted on August 17, 2011August 17, 2011 by BritMumInNZ

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…

Silent Sunday

Posted on July 31, 2011 by BritMumInNZ

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Wordless Sunday: Liquid

Posted on July 24, 2011July 24, 2011 by BritMumInNZ

__________________________________________________________ There’s plenty of wet stuff sweeping across New Zealand this weekend, with an icy blast from the south bringing snow to lower levels than have been seen in a long time. For us it has been a rug up warm weekend. Lego, board games, music and dancing. This afternoon there was plenty of delightful…

Wordless Sunday: Motion

Posted on July 17, 2011July 17, 2011 by BritMumInNZ

____________________________________________________ I really wish I’d had my decent camera with me today, as there was so much ‘motion’ at Lyall Bay, with kite-surfers, sea-gulls, airplanes and my girls running on the beach. I had to make do with my phone camera, but still had fun trying to capture the motion. This week’s theme for ‘Wordless…

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