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...

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...

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...

Introducing: Ketu

Ketu is one of the newest additions to Hamilton Zoo – a red panda cub born to Father Chito and Mother Tayla just before Christmas 2011. Tayla had two cubs however the smaller of the two didn’t survive for long after being born. Hamilton Zoo recently ran a...

The 2012 Great Pumpkin Carnival

On Sunday we went along to the 2012 Great Pumpkin Carnival at Hamilton Gardens. Our friend Sam is one of the organisers – and a grower of giant pumpkins – and Ken and the kids had been before.  I had been told it would be a lot of fun.  Plus it was a...

Tuesday Rocks p5

The last time I wrote a Tuesday Rocks post was when Daylight Savings had just started.  Now we are on the other end of it and Daylight Savings is ending. Summer is over – not that it really ever began – the mornings are a lot darker and it is getting more...

Dude! Where’s my Concentration?

Have I lost my focus?  Did I ever really have it? As 2012 storms along, I am aware that there are still things on my task list that I was thinking about doing at the beginning of the year.  Small tasks, ones that will take around – or less than – an hour...