Entry Out of the Blue

It's been awhile. Writing a blog entry that is. It has been a very wet, dreary and long winter. The wet weekends have been ever so kindly queueing themselves back to back. That makes it hard to get outside and take decent photo's - hence nothing to really interesting to blog about.

This weekend, despite the weather forecast predictions, it was fine. Finally. We took the kids down to the water front for some air and exercise while we ran after them. 


Amelia has developed her scooting speed to something quite respectable now. So on wide open spaces like the Wellington water front she leaves wide open spaces behind her parents.

Below is a shot of Lucy enjoying some mid winter sun on the back lawn. She confidently navigates her way out of the back door and up the rear garden steps onto the lawn now.  So the back lawn is her oyster, if a little muddy currently.

Amelia was in prize possession of her school class teddy bear this weekend.  This is massive kudos for a five year old. So we spent considerable part of the weekend traveling with this promiscuous teddy bear like some abducted garden gnome on a student prank.

Ted get's some miles it would seem. And he went every where while requiring constant photo's as his weekend needed to be document for a school report. By Monday. Like a boring swank film star.  And just like a swank film star he seemed to have some designs on Amelia's other teddy bear, Pink. There is something sinister in Ted's eye and I'll leave it up to the reader to decide upon poor young Pink's reaction.

Frosty Mornings

There has been a number of nice frosty mornings recently.  Last Sunday was a absolute cracker.

Here is a shot of the nearby park sitting in full frost. 

Keeping a Low Profile

Lucy, keeping a low profile.

Icecream Sunday

Nothing beats an ice cream on the waterfront on a Sunday afternoon.

Especially after a tiring sequence of wet weekends. All was out to worship the weather.
Grant and Frances visited Wellington for the weekend to help Sarah recover the operation on her wrist.

Cat assuming the role of mouse.

Lucy and Finn have being going toe to paw a bit recently.  
On Sunday I caught an amusing photo sequence of 'cat and mouse', this time the cat assuming the role of mouse.

Game on; hot pursuit.

Missed, but he's got a tail ain't he ...

Nup, Dad, he's gone.

Another Wet Weekend

The wet weekends have been queueing themselves back to back it seems this winter. In between breaks in the shower fronts and cabin fever, I caught this picture of the mid winter leaves.

Why blog?

I've been pondering why I write this blog. I started writing it as an idle interest, an experiment almost, unsure where it would head. What I have discovered is that blogs are hard work. I've noticed many start, stutter and stop. Quitting them is almost the trend.

The direction that this blog has found itself is now primarily about the family.  We have a distributed family in the sense in that it is spread over half the country. While the nucleus is based in Wellington, the rest are in Auckland. That  means our daughters have grandparents, uncles, aunts and cousins based at the other end of the country; and while  we are lucky enough to visit each other reasonably regularly, however that does not prevent long stretches in between, and milestones passing by.

So, that has formed the core purpose of this blog. Simply put, an online diary of what the kids are up to. Not only does it serve to too keep remote family members up with the play but also forms a useful history for ourselves on how they are growing up. 

There is also a tertiary purpose. Photos. I have found that I enjoy taking photos, and have also found that my family are useful to inflict my photographic skills upon. Every once and a while, to my great surprise, I get the odd nice picture. I see no point in keeping photos locked up on photo albums or on other physical media.  A blog is a useful way to publish them. After all, everyone likes a nice picture of the kids. 

Luckily, outside immediate family, and web indexing crawlers, I seriously doubt if anybody bothers to read these entries. Perhaps the odd passerby. 

To counterpoint the previous statement, I'm professionally concerned about privacy issues on the internet. Many shall and will comment that such a blog of this nature is an antithesis to such notions. While what I publish makes no attempt to be anything other than public (verses the misrepresented-pseudo-private of that consummate internet evil juggernaut that is facebook),  I aim to only publish what a causal member of the public could observe about us anyway. Well, that's the theory.