Feeling kind of nostalgic today. Went into the village for some cookies that looked home baked (Alec has a camp and I haven't had the time to do any real baking for it!), and found it was almost over run by bikers on some very pretty Harley motorcycles. Got in a queue behind some and found that that smell of old leather and petrol fumes made me ( Read more... )

I'm now officially older than Ian and that feels...odd.

First heavy frost and I'm missing my nice UK central heating that would be timed to come on at least an hour before I got up. Here, I have to judge the day and work out whether it is sensible or not to go light the fire. If it isn't, I have to wrap up warm until the sun warms up the house. Brrrr!

This morning, when walking the boys five minutes up the unsealed road to their bus stop for school, we were all amazed by a beautiful rainbow hitting the mountains (which aren't so much mountains, but foot hills leading up to the Southern Alps). Jake told me to go home and get the camera while they went on to get the bus on their own:


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I'm amazed at how much linen you can stuff into an airing closet. With another person coming to view the house on Friday, I decided that I really ought to sort out the airing closet (at least to the point where I didn't have to warn people about the perils of everything falling out on them ( Read more... )

*giggles* What fun!



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Its been an age since I've posted. Originally it was because of my mother only having limited dial-up in New Zealand and then because I've just been flat out back in the UK ( Read more... )

It is my wedding anniversary today. Fourteen years ago today Ian and I married at a very grimy registry office in Brixton, then headed up to London and had a wonderful party in the penthouse suite of New Zealand House; such a wonderful view of Trafalgar Square and The Haymarket from there. I felt terrible when I only remembered on the train into ( Read more... )

Been away down in Cornwall for the last week. Every year we go away for the May holidays and rent a large house with three other families and this is the second time without Ian. All in all, we had a Good Time and it was not nearly as traumatic as last year. The only downside was the drive down and back - my Sat Nav predicted a five and a half ( Read more... )

I'm a little behind in writing about my fantastic weekend, not because I've been to busy but because I seem to have spent a lot of time over the last few days doing absolutely nothing. Which makes a change, but I do feel guilty over all the jobs that need sorting around the house ( Read more... )