Party Time!

The Big 40! Justine in party mode. She's living & working in Macau (China) hence the red Cheongsam.

And this is me (& her father) wearing the same sort of dress many years ago, so many that I can't remember when! It was more of a Hawaiian theme that night.

I can't believe I gave birth to a blonde blue-eyed baby - and 40 years ago, I remember it like it was yesterday!

Last of the Zoo photos

My word grandma what big teeth you have!




Harry had a ball that day, I think his mother fed him a kilo of sugar for breakfast!!

Justine home for a quick visit

DD Justine lives & works in Macau so we haven't seen her for 15 months! She's here for a week for her 40th birthday celebrations, here's the first of I hope many photos.

From the left: SiL, StepMum, Justine, Dad, Mum, Harry, Brother.

I was going to take a whole lot of photos of the airport while I was there but we arrived after her plane landed and in all the excitement I forgot except for these two! This is Auckland's International Airport.

We went to Lauren & Becky's place for dinner, didn't stay long as it's a school night and Justine was dropping off!

After a 10 hr flight it looks like jet lag has set in!

Meeting Aunty Justine at the Airport

Scatterdaisies

Sorry ladies but I didn't get time to do last week's Scatterday and I won't this week either. My daughter is coming home from overseas tomorrow for a week to celebrate her 40th birthday so it's all go. Sigh - wouldn't it be great to be 40 again!

More Zoo photos....

Zoo Do!

We didn't hang around here very long, phew!

I've changed my mind now, I will say 'cheese' for Nana this time, but be quick Nana because I'll be gone before the camera focuses!

Yay the last self portrait!

Okay so that wasn't my self portrait yesterday, no one even blinked! Here's the real one, it's the last one as I've now done my month's worth - I can relax and blob out once more!

Day at the Zoo

Yes I know I have my shirt on back to front but I like it that way! And no I don't think I'll look at Nana and say cheese today, she's so boring she's always saying that!

March Self Portrait - Day 13

It was Auckland Zoo's Active Movement Day for Children today and I was delighted to go with Harry & DiL (truly I was Kelly, truly). Another beautiful hot day and I wore jeans & sneakers - whatever was I thinking! I'm pooped so will post photos later, in the meantime here's my self portrait for today.

March Self Portrait - Day 12

All dressed up and nowhere to go!

March Self Portrait - Day 11

What! Me doing housework - never!!

New Blog

I've decided to split this blog into two, this one will stay as the PhotoWalking/Photography one and the new one will be dedicated to my digital scrapbooking/preserving yesterday's photographs for future generations. You can see it here - Yesteryear Memories.

Why I'm doing this is because I really wanted to post larger pictures of the layouts and you have to do that via a link to PhotoBucket (or similar) so this one stays with the normal size photos.

March Self Portrait - Day 10

Coffee time! Poem is by Drew K, found on the web.

Vintage Memories

I love this kit of Irene's, not so much the awful photo of me though!
Credits: Altered Melody by Irene Alexeeva, http://tinyurl.com/3xclro

Blog365 - Day 66

A few more photos from yesterday.

DH and the usual grin I get when I say smile.

Quite a pretty setting really, shame about the colour of the water though!

Okay so it's not the most beautiful beach in the world or even Auckland but the locals enjoy it.

The beach is surrounded by beautiful bush & these tall trees. The Indian community were having an enjoyable sounding picnic on this grass area earlier, it really was the most glorious day weatherwise.

Blog365 - Day 65

Just a couple of photos now with more later, I'm pooped. These are a couple I took at Titirangi beach today where we had a picnic lunch and sat and enjoyed the fading summer. Kids playing cricket with their parents, having fun in kayaks and there were even a few swimming!

Self Portrait - Day 9