January marks the second, ‘official’ month of New Zealand summer. We Kiwi’s are comfortably settled into the annual, seasonal slow-down we look forward to every year. The kids have chilled out after the excitement of Santa’s visit, Mum’s everywhere have celebrated ‘un-decking the halls’ and …
I looked outside yesterday and couldn’t help but appreciate the sight of two loads of whites drying on the line, yes the water truck came {FOR THE 5TH TIME} and so we washed. I hate to begrudge people a long, amazing summer, seeing as how …
My ice definitely had that ‘wow’ factor this morning. Two buckets of water over my windscreen and still there were rogue icebergs refusing to budge. If I lived in the Seven Kingdoms this would totally be a sign that the long winter was coming from …
Autumn is spectacular in our part of Auckland. The leaves are turning and the colours make my jaw drop every morning as I head to work. The fog was insane today; this morning’s drive had an ethereal quality about it…….until I hit the Albany gridlock.
Despite warnings of tropical cyclones destined to ruin everyone’s Easter holidays {gasp!} , the sun has shone for days. We LOVE!
One Saturday a mighty Weather Bomb was ‘supposed’ to hit Auckland. In fact the Weather Bomb was SO big the whole North Island was under a gale warning. Oh my! I was quite sure that there would be nothing better to do during a Weather …
It was sunny today! Gasp. I am crazy about hydrangeas this season, luckily for me there is a serious bounty of them a few doors up from us.
Gloomy days always make for the best photos and this is one of the best pics I have taken in a while. And I took it on my iphone. From the car. Outside Ethan’s school. LOVE.
A Shi-tzu wearing a sweater chewing on a sheep skull. This is what Lou did all day after he dragged himself out of {my} bed. It’s getting cold but still no rain. This time a year ago I was obsessing about how to get my …
I had to ‘work’ this morning but had to stop my car as I was driving down our road and take some pictures because it was a breathtaking morning – these photos have NOT been edited or colour corrected Merry Christmas everyone, stay safe on …