Snowy Afternoon up Ongar way

During these very cold snowy days I had a go at building a snowman, along with my lovely niece and daddy. It Didn't really turn out very snow man, more snow... empire state cum statue of Liberty, haha.





It's height got the better of him in the end...


Beautiful views, walking across the fields to my sisters... Oooo I LOVE the snow!!

Weekend with the boys about Poland and Berlin

Had a lovely long weekend, well, 5 days. The first two days were alone in Krakow, beautiful city, cold, nice people, helpful, but an air of suspicion in the their eyes, but that could just be me :)
Then Fede, Abs and Javier arrived and off we went for a jolly day at Aushwitz, and onto Berlin for the evening. Mmm Berlin. Cake, Biking about, Cafe, views, beauty and ugliness, but cold; but lovely. Came back via Wraclaw in Poland. So much more forest everywhere than I expect.

Jools and Alison, and Ruby.. what a lovely jubbly English summer's night

Summer Picnic Concerts.. Oooo I love 'em!



Me and Siggies on a sunny afternoon, up Audley End House, lovely :)


Alison was on.. but only for a few numbers.. Ah, can't have everything I suppose...





Mmm there were some lovely views too, well, you know what I'm like...






Mmm I love the fireworks...

Comin Homo... few days in Alicante, Ongar and Town, Ah...

Mmm it runs in the family.. hehehe.. the love of the washing line/machine, I mean...

Sweet Marce getting a rub at Rufus picnic concert, what a lovely night.. had another the following week with Diana Krall, Joana and the boys. Can't beat London hot summer nights, ah...

Just happened to be the GayDay or whatever they call it now... these were the cheeky aussie bum boys.. others were smiling alot more.. for some reason, the equation seems to be more muscles/less smiling? or am I just a bit jealous? haha

Gorgeous birthday dinner with Ian & Liz who share the same day, and share nicely they do, and Tony and Ricky-roo too, bit pissy, ooo, it all ended a bit messily in Holland Park.. no, not the rich heart land of Holland Park.. hahaha

Ohhh. lovely Alicante, moonlight nights, sun, sea, sandy afternoons, friends, Oh, what more can a boy want...

Up to the Dutchies in the Hills and to meet the new Donkeys and Doggie.

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And it was Fallas, so lots of people out and about and up to now good. Which is nice.

Oh, England, my Lionheart... this is how I think of the countryside, Ah. I sing that song to myself whenever I land here. Ah. Its all Golden now... mmm... time to take Nelly for a walk... well, next week when I'm back.

xxx

Maroubra to Bondi with the boys

My last week in Sydney for the year and Rich has arrived! woohoo! Rich, Jezza and I went for a long early winter walk from Maroubra Beach to Bondi the other afternoon. It was perfect weather, well, cool, but just right for a long walk by the sea... mmm and fush and chups for lunch, and coffee, and another coffee and so on and so forth, haha.




Maroubra Beach, south side of Sydney, which was much more rural feeling that I expected. They were filming something just to the left there... lots of fit types running into the waves... very homo and away I thought.




One of the many sea pools along the coast. I like them but get to thinking some shark out there might get bored of treading water waiting for dinner and just jump over and have a good feed... ooo blimey!



Bondi sea pool, the classic, I think!

The boys between Tamarama and Bondi.. we saw some Penguins just below there splashing about in the waves, ah :)

Fresh Fruity Fragrant Feijoa mmmm

The last few weeks in New Zealand has been Feijoa season, mmmm, so nice, straight off the tree and into my tum tum! Its Organic, init!

Beach Barnacles Búsqueda up at Eastery Raglan

I fancied sequential rather than left right centre blah blah blah...





Just some nice views from a gorgeous afternoon's walk along Raglan beach with Jacks.





Such a beautiful place, I bored her ridged with me constant exclamations of how lovely it was, I think I over use that word as it is...



This guy had some self-powered torpedo thingy called a Kontiki which periodically shoots out from the shore, draggin a long line of hooks, and look what he caught! Had a box full of lovely Snapper (which we also had for fish and chups later..).






Any suggestions to add some variety to me vocab??

Dragons and boats and Evanito

Found Gollum, and also had a lovely weekend in wellington visiting the new Hamilton/Barber Cineplex, very nice :) Well, I saw the construction, as it were... session times tba





also saw Evan doing his Dragon boat... ooo there were some lovely sights to be seen I tell thee... he's here on the far left, I think..


I don't normally like competitive things but it was really quite good fun and a bea-oooo-tiful day...



went to the beach in the arvo, which was peaceful and gorgeous.. then climbed up the hill and read a while... I love Welly :)

Tarawera steamy sundays

We got up early, well, 9ish, early for a sunday.. what am I talkin about, I'm always up by then... mmm anyway. Off we went, Jacks, Michael, Andrew, Trey and I, off to the south side of Rotorua to Lake Tarawera and what a gorgeous day we had :)





I didn't think about it beforehand, but its known for the hot springs around the lake, obvious really, for the region, and it was lovely... nearly burnt me bum! Oww!





And we even got a ski, and Trey a boogie boardin, in between picnic and boilin the barnacles.. haha