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Wordless Sunday: Liquid

July 24, 2011July 24, 2011 BritMumInNZ 12 Comments Alice, photography, Silent Sunday, Sophie

__________________________________________________________ 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 […]

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Wordless Sunday: Motion

July 17, 2011July 17, 2011 BritMumInNZ 9 Comments Alice, photography

____________________________________________________ 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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Wordless Sunday – ‘Black and White’

July 10, 2011 BritMumInNZ 9 Comments Charlotte, photography

This week’s theme is ‘Black and White’ and is being hosted at the wonderful blog of Meghan – ‘Exploring Beauty with MNM’s‘.

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Wordless Sunday: Baking

July 3, 2011July 3, 2011 BritMumInNZ 12 Comments Baking, photography, Sophie

Linking up with…. I couldn’t resist posting three photos – too hard to choose my favourite! This week’s ‘Wordless Sunday’ is being hosted at Helen’s wonderful blog, ‘One Trick Pony‘, with the theme ‘Baked’.

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Silent & Wordless Sunday

June 26, 2011June 26, 2011 BritMumInNZ 11 Comments Dan, photography, Sarah

____________________________________________ Linking up with….

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Wordless Sunday

June 19, 2011 BritMumInNZ 8 Comments Alice, photography

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Silent Sunday

June 5, 2011 BritMumInNZ 14 Comments Dan, Sarah, Silent Sunday

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