I wanted to be free today, to wander aimlessly and have random conversations. To sit in a bar on my own and talk to strangers. To be a tourist in my own city – Wellington – I can do that. So, after a lovely morning of ballet and family fun at Waitangi Park, Dan headed […]
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Look-alike Meter
MyHeritage: Family tree – Genealogy – Celeb – Collage – Morph MyHeritage: Look-alike Meter – Genalogy – Family tree diagram The results have an element of truth. Charli is so like me – sensitive, creative, likes to eat Marmite, cheese and tomato sauce. She also has overcrowded teeth along the bottom and will definitely need […]
Term 3 – we’ve arrived!
We’re into the sunshine term of hat wearing and late evenings. Early bedtimes for the girls are harder to achieve with sunlight streaming through the curtains. The garden is such a wonderful temptation and hard for them to resist. I’m having to work extra hard to ensure a proper ‘wind down’ at the end of […]
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Bug off germs: Leave us in peace to admire the tulips
It’s the start of the annual ‘Spring Festival‘ this Sunday in Wellington’s Botanical Garden. Tulip Sunday on 28 September kicks the winter blues away and calls in the joy and colour of Spring. The festivities continue throughout the two-week school holidays, culminating in a Family Picnic on Sunday 12 October. These photographs weren’t taken this […]
Crook again but the force is with us
UPDATE: Still crook. Saw the doctor today – which was, as I expected, a total waste of time. Spent half an hour in the waiting room, dozing in and out of sleep, before being poked, prodded and told, ‘Lots of fluids, Vitamin C and lots of rest’. $45 worse off at the end of it […]
Time to Chill and Eat Cake
Term three is coming to a close, And these three can’t help but strike a pose. For though they’re happy stepping out on their own, They are only too happy to strut together in town. Weekends of ballet and swimming take a break, It’s time for us to chill and eat some cake. No rushing […]
Rediscovering ‘me’
After a brief stint in New Zealand of a year and a half from 1997 to 1998, Dan and I traveled back to the UK for a wonderful year. We were married in 1999 and within a few month’s after our wedding Dan was invited to return to New Zealand to work for one of […]
We Are Family
What a weekend! Spring really is upon us and here’s a little video clip of our family fun on Wellington’s Waterfront on Saturday (with plenty of hooning around and shoddy camera work!): Sunday was a trooper of a day too. We always love chilling out at home on a Sunday morning (and catching up with […]
Scooting around Wellington on a sunny Saturday
Wellington is such a compact city, encased in hills and geographically challenged when it comes to expanding (but of course there’s always the option of building up – and one look at the number of cranes on the cityscape exhibits evidence aplenty of growth to the sky). The compactness makes Wellington a neat city to […]
Camping with natural flair!
I was recently wasting countless hours on Facebook when I came across a friend’s photos of a recent visit to Festinho Festival in Suffolk, UK. What really captured my attention, and had me up most of the night dreaming, was her amazingly natural tent. She has since put me on to the website where she […]
Beautiful rain – for some
In so many parts of the world right now people are suffering from a deluge of rain beyond manageable proportions. I woke this morning to a plea for donations from the British Red Cross for the Hurricane Appeal in the aftermath of Gustav and Hanna. Our prays go out to all the families affected and […]
Random Happiness
Being in the moment, totally at one with nature. Free of the monkey mind chatter and internal dialog. No ego to feed; just simple happiness from living in the present and being consciously aware. Every breath drawn from the centre of the Universe. Every cell in the body soaking up the warmth of the sun […]
Babar the Elephant visits Wellington!
Babar is a very well-loved elephant in our house and we were ecstatic to hear the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra bring the story of Babar to life on Saturday at Te Papa. Miranda Harcourt narrated the story and held most of the audience in raptures (though many of the very young ones preferred to roam […]