News from the Studio, New Locations and Project Updates
We Bought A Zoo
... no not Ken and I. Well at least not just yet. Thanks to Frozen Planet, a cat (even His Royal Fatness) won't be my last, or one and only pet. I wonder if the BBC knew how intensely their documentary, narrated by the one and only David Attenborough, would tug at...
Things I’m Afraid To Tell You
A little late to the party but then I'm behind in just about everything at the moment. No joke - everything. More on that further down the page. The idea behind "Things I'm Afraid To Tell You" is that its good to be honest. I mean really honest for a change. We...
Wairarapa Road Trip
For Mother's Day this year I planned to give my mummy the gift of me ... and meeting Ken for the first time. We decided to roadtrip to the Wairarapa leaving from Hamilton on Friday after work. In hindsight, I'd probably never ever do this again .. especially not in...
Tuesday Rocks p7
Although Tuesday Rocks isn't quite the weekly feature I had intended, it is kinda cool to look back over the last week or weeks and see all the neat things that have been happening to me and around me. This is one of those almost a month round up posts - it has been...
April 2012 iPhone Collage
Pumpkin carnage! Rolling pumpkins at the Great Pumpkin Festival 2012 HP's Gen8 launch at Sky City Hanging out with the Cosgrove boys watching Baby Einstein Easter weekend lake diving Easter egg hunt preparations Easter Sunday in the sun Photographic excursions -...
Healthy May
Amanda from Here Comes the Sun wrote a great blog which got my engines firing. I love doing monthly challenges but I have decided not to do another Photo A Day month for a while; I want to spend some more time on my 365 Project and launching my portfolio and in order...
Photo A Day April – Day Thirty
Day Thirty. Something that makes you sad. Ear medication. And that's it. The challenge has been completed for another month - and the last one that I will do for a while.
Photo A Day April – Week Four
The fourth and final week of April Photo A Day and the last of these that I will be doing for a while. There are a few too many things going on around here at the moment and I've taken a break from the 365 Project (unintended) - but now I want to crack back in to it....
Photo A Day April – Week Three
Week Three of April's Photo A Day. Tutukaka Marina - as the sun heads down for the night. We'd just arrived back from a weekend's diving and this was what I managed to grab just after we'd cleared the boat and packed the car. Not a flower at all. One of the succulent...
Be Happy, Don’t Worry
I re-read yesterday's post this morning - I'm seriously worried that I am starting to sound like a moaning Minne. I know life isn't all diving and travels and eating and sunshine, but sheesh ... its not all cat poop and kiddie vomit either (figuratively speaking)....
Currently.
Obsessing over: Another ear infection. Yup. Obsessing is actually the most polite word that I can use - so kiddies cover your eyes. I am so damn pissed off. I'm deaf in my right ear! I am trying to religiously stick to the 4 times a day ear drops that the doctor...
Tuesday Rocks p6
Lots and lots and lots of news for this weeks post! Once again, I'm surprised that it is already Tuesday evening and tomorrow will be Hump Day. In case you hadn't already worked it out, I love the term 'Hump Day' and the whole idea that we're in the middle of the...
Photo A Day April – Week Two
Week Two of April's Photo A Day. Not the most favourite of the wallets that I have owned but it will do for now. My best ever ever ever wallet was a great Olga Berg foldover with a coin purse on the side. Then some little fucker broke in to my car and stole it....
DPhoto Magazine Nikon 2012 Amateur Photographer of the Year Competition
In the spirit of 2012 being the year of taking risks and throwing myself out there, I have entered all of the categories in the Amateur Photographer of the Year competition - eeeeeeeeekkk! Part of the competition is a People's Choice which is pretty cool. I have to...
Heavens! It’s Hump Day!
I got out of bed so early that it hurt. It hurt making coffee, it hurt dragging a brush through my hair (not just because it was a complete and total birds nest) and it hurt driving to the beach. It stopped hurting when I got out of the car and watched the darkness...
Happy Easter!
The sun finally arrived - and it stayed all weekend! I love love love the sun, almost as much as I love long weekends. Ken bought his kids up to Auckland for the Easter break. It was the first time that they had been to my place (let alone stayed a night) so I was a...
Photo A Day April – Week One
I am back doing Photo A Day for April as FatMumSlim's chart looked interesting. I like the prompts both for the photographs and they give me some inspiration for blogs as well - usually more personal blogs that are again starting to fill up my Drafts folder but I have...
March 2012 iPhone Collage
Ken taking the Nikon for a spin at Floriditas in Wellington Mike's Pale Ale - yumm!! New tattoo - its not quite finished yet but it is a treasure chest with two padlocks (one for each of my brothers) Saturday pub lunch Monster Man Ken presenting to kids at the Waikato...