As much as I adore my children, it’s really hard for my husband and I to have any time together. We’re here in beautiful Queenstown on holiday, but with me sharing a bed with Alice (Miss 3), Dan sharing a room with Sophie (Miss 7) – who doesn’t like to sleep without an adult and…
Category: Holidays
Stepping into Autumn this Wardrobe Wednesday
We are holidaying in Queenstown this week, getting a beautiful fix of Autumn in Otago. Hues of yellow, orange and fiery red adorn the trees, their beauty magnified in the glass like reflections of the lakes. Our holiday wardrobes reflect the season, layered like the folds in the mountains that have their first sprinkling of…
The Photo Gallery: Expressions from an Autumn Holiday in Queenstown
It’s beautiful here on holiday in Queenstown. The autumn colours are breathtaking and the light works its magic on the landscapes like an artist’s paint-brush. The expressions of our children, enjoying their holiday, are plentiful to light up our hearts too. Young Alice, rolling on the grass, under canopies of golden leaves… Her face radiant…
Reaching new heights on the first day of being 39!
This was the way to start the last year of my thirties – taking a ride in a Gondola over Queenstown with my family. At the top we geared up for a little action… enjoying an absolute blast of a morning riding the Luge carts down the hill… again and again and again! Alice had…
A grand start to the last year of my thirties!
I lie awake, before the rest of the house, savouring the quiet, reflecting on the past, thankful for the love, that brought me to this world, filling my heart, with all that is good. This journey I am on, thirty nine years in, is walked with feet given the best start in life, appreciating time,…
Silent Sunday
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Sunshine memories from Nelson
Just sitting here, with a glass of chilled wine, feeling a whole lot better than I did yesterday, and thinking there needs to be some sunshine photographs to mirror my mood on the blog. Here’s a few happy moments from our Nelson holiday… Beautiful Cable Bay… A visit to Founders Heritage Park and a ride…
ADVENTURE this week for The Gallery
Our family is home after a holiday in beautiful Picton and Nelson, New Zealand. We had a blast, especially with Grandma & Granddad over from the UK. As for an adventure? Well, perhaps not so much for us oldies (given we had young children stopping us from too many extended, wild adventures), but more of…
Holiday loves from Nelson
Time has to be the biggest love of any holiday for our family. No matter where we are, no matter the weather (though sunshine for at least half the holiday is preferable), it is time that holds the highest value. Time to talk idly over coffee or dinner. Time to play. Time to amble at…
Things I’m Loving – Holiday memories connecting to our everyday lives…
⤠I’m slowly getting back into the groove of multi-tasking madness that is family life, but with plenty of post holiday memories still lingering on… It’s not only me that’s still reflecting on all we did – even young Alice is a chatter of her holiday memories. As we made our way downstairs the other…
I’m an old-fashioned gal – when it comes to arcades…
I’m not really a great lover of the modern game arcades. The decibel level of the games is my biggest gripe and the flashing lights are a little too overpowering for my delicate nature – though I did enjoy the close proximity of one within a bar at the end of Pier 39, in San…
Reflecting and processing all the memories of our trip away
Whilst I was away a friend wisely said, ‘Take your time in processing all your feelings.’ There was so much to take in, during our whirlwind time away. Old friends, familiar places of my childhood, family reunions, different places, people, cultures, architecture, scenery, seasons and nature… my senses were overwhelmed and bombarded from every angle….
The Photo Gallery – Frightful (from frightful elegance to reality)
Frightful is returning from holiday to piles and piles of dirty washing. The last four nights of our trip away to the US and UK were spent in absolute luxury. There’s only been a handful of days in my life that I’ve enjoyed such absolute decadence. I didn’t think once about cleaning, washing, cooking, clearing dishes and…
A Friday by the pool in style – living the dream!
We hired a cabana by the pool for the day and lapped up the sunshine, swimming and friendly service. Since it’s off peak here we had the pool mostly to ourselves for the day and, as my nine year old daughter rightly said we were, ‘living the dream’! I felt like an Egyptian Queen (albeit…