In a few weeks time we will say farewell to a year of Californian blue sky. It’s as though you could walk into a paint shop and pluck that exact colour off the shelf. It’s been practically unchanging all year – apart from at sunrise, sunset and night-time. Having grown up in England, followed by […]
‘One Word’ is this week’s theme over on ‘The Photo Gallery‘ at Sticky Fingers blog and I’m going with ‘Metamorphosis’, after a magical visit to the recently opened ‘Butterflies Alive!’ exhibit at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. I visited on with my youngest daughter, age four. She entered the magical world of the […]
Guess where we are? Known as ‘The Happiest Place on Earth’! Disneyland! This visit I am the happiest I’ve been visiting Disneyland California, and it’s not just because of the dashing man by my side (though of course he is a big part of the reason!). It’s also because our Miss 4 has finally reached the […]
Sunshine smiles in California. This is me looking happy on a good day. A day before we started to try and integrate two, of our three, children into a new school, in a new country. A day after getting a lovely new vehicle to cruise around town in – a sunshine red VW Convertible. A […]
To my dear husband, A special photo I took today. A moment in time. The marking of a new chapter in our lives. We are going to have an amazing time here, I am sure of it, especially once we are properly settled. We are so fortunate to have been blessed with wonderful childhoods in […]
She naps, I read, her older sisters are happily playing. For a moment I enjoy the still. No one asking when breakfast, lunch or dinner is ready. No one asking where socks are or how to work some technological gadget. A voice inside tells me to ‘relax’ and enjoy this moment. After weeks of preparing […]
Winter here in New Zealand and the colours at twilight are often my favourite. It is when I feel closest to family on the other side of the world, basking in a well over-due heat wave. As the light leaves our sky I know it is stirring in their sky. I love the sun, not […]
‘Two’ is the theme this week on ‘The Photo Gallery’ and this morning, on World Environment Day, 5 June 2013, an amazing sight met my eyes as I drove along Wellington’s south coast, on the way to my oldest daughter’s school. The wild storm of last night trapped a waka crew anchored in heavy seas. […]
I was delighted to hear my friends and family in the UK enjoyed a much deserved May Bank Holiday weekend of sunshine. Here in Wellington we enjoyed amazing Autumn sunshine too and when I read that Tara, at Sticky Fingers blog, had set the theme of ‘The Weekend’ for this week’s ‘Photo Gallery‘ I knew […]
The Photo Gallery theme this week is, ‘Self Portrait’. Lately I’ve been putting myself in-front of the camera a lot more frequently – in response to my children often asking, ‘Where’s Mummy?’, when they look through photo albums of themselves from their younger years. The majority of the time I am behind the camera, capturing […]
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 […]
Sweet 16. The year 1990. Perms were in, so were floral dresses. I was all dressed up for my school ‘Prom’, after completing my G.C.S.E.’s and readying myself for ‘Sixth Form College’. I’d spent the past few years suffering acne and tram-line braces. I was only just beginning to be interested in boys – up […]