India elfed ourselves India made this just now, I smiled and giggled a little

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  I'll let Hugh speak for me Sometimes you just see something that reminds you of things you think in the quiet recesses of your mind. This one came from the dark recesses of Hugh's mind. We must be twins.



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  GAR! I couldn't resist this before wednesday [International talk like a pirate day]


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  my little boy isn't he's a big boy now, here he is grading for his yellow tip



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  Cub Sleepover had a lot of fun with the Cubs, here they are getting into the shape of 100 in celebration of the centenary of Scouting this year

not sure we cracked 100 activities in 24 hours though :-)




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  a motorbike, a son and a long black Had a great day yesterday, nothing planned, just open to the possibilities

For once a bike ride that had the tailwind in both directions

Subway and coffee in the afternoon sunshine

A bike ride on Eliot's new bike; over the hills to Lyttleton for Chai at Coffee Culture. Got to say though, a return to the bike and sweeping corners was a bit scary at times. Adrenaline is good for the soul though!

Great!

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  Could've been me #1,021

draw your own conclusions at Savage Chickens

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  what am i grateful for today? very grateful this isn't me in the video!



or this guy either!



Phew!

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  Hunting Comet Mcnaught I decided that as there seemed little cloud and it wasn't raining at sunset I'd go hunting the Comet


Port hills at sunset
Originally uploaded by ninefish.

it was an interesting time, the port hills were awash in cars doing the same thing, vacationers in too few clothes, hoons and romancing couples

I took lots of photos, but the low lying cloud obscured everything but the horizon

The sunset was amazing I hope you like the photos


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  sunday pancakes with the children [and ice cream] the end of a wonderful holiday break together

salmon dinners, red wine and pistachios

evening walks at sunset [obscured by clouds]

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  Sushi on a doorstep with lots of kids an empty and organised garage at last

getting up early and walking the beach looking for pinkalicious and the missing shoe

unfortunately it was a no show for the shoe and the phone, but it was worth the walk any way, and the day got better from there

lastly, sinking into a warm chair for a movie with the chillies, tired after a big, long day

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  rolls, swimming and surfing, no illustrations today, just thankfulness

morning calls [hearing voices long unheard sounding cheerier than in my imagination]

stealing time from the day and spending it enjoyably

baking rolls and sharing food with good friends

walks and moments

getting things wrong and then clearing things up [almost]

sunshine, surf [big stuff, we hit the tides just right]

missing pinkalicious already

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  dolphins, bonfires, pizza, old friends so much happened today, so many smiles, and so many things to be grateful for:

Nettie popped in for the day with Hannah

we had a big table of pizza [and some red wine]

while the kids were surfing in the dusk, we saw dolphins just a few metres behind the break where they were surfing. I've never seen them here before


Beach bonfire beginnings
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We made a bonfire on the beach, wrapped ourselves in blankets and once the kids had finished they came to warm themselves around the flames, they cooked few marshmallows


just before the Firemen came
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but the fun was truncated when the firemen came to put out the bonfire. There was a fire truck, sirens and the stern voice of the fireman.


walking home
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apparently it was a danger to shipping, it's not as if it was a beacon like in Lord of the Rings, more of a smoky little thing we were well in control of. It was more a miracle that it was alight at all as the driftwood was so wet from the rain during the morning

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  Sunday's Grateful end Mostly stories today

we were surfing yesterday evening and Henny complained about being bitten by crabs. Eliot and I poo pooed the whole idea and rationalised it as stepping on the TuaTua shells that litter the shoreline here. Today i was proved wrong and had to apologise to the girls.

Henny and I were screaming and giggling in the very messy surf on Sunday avo. We'd given up being serious and were just faking it in the shallows. Henny was on the big board and I was struggling with the rip and trying to keep her straight as i pushed her off the waves.

A crab bit my big toe and i leapt screaming from the water. Of course Hannah and henny thought this was very amusing, and even more amused when they found i'd been bitten by one of the things i'd denied the existence of earlier.

i happened again and again before we all came home, ever gracious in victory they pulled my leg about it all the way home

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  walking in the evening with henny
walking in the evening with henny
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the big two had gone to get showered and warm, we carried on down the beach and chatted, laughed and shared a story or two. Henny's was about getting poo on her shorts in Living Springs camp, mine was in answer to a request about how I met Nettie

It's amazing the clarity that one gets every now and again. I really enjoyed the walk on the beach with Henrietta. We were on a mission, I'd seen a plastic rake one morning and we were searching to see if it was still there. [it wasn't] We talked and chatted, pointed things out to each other told our stories and walked some more.

it was a special moment, and a special end to Ladybug day

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  Rescuing a ladybug
evening ladybug
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Henny spotted a ladybug in the sea foam, it looked in danger of drowning, so she saved it and carried it up into the dunes to fly home another day

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  and henny movies too I couldn't leave Henrietta out of the magic of today could I?



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  Hannah emerging from the surf she tries desperately to not get caught

look at that smile



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  Eliot getting vertical Caught this from the sidelines tonight, He had a lot of fun, and so did hannah, see the stills on flickr



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  Sunday's Grateful end Mostly stories today

we were surfing yesterday evening and Henny complained about being bitten by crabs. Eliot and I poo pooed the whole idea and rationalised it as stepping on the TuaTua shells that litter the shoreline here. Today i was proved wrong and had to apologise to the girls.

Henny and I were screaming and giggling in the very messy surf on Sunday avo. We'd given up being serious and were just faking it in the shallows. Henny was on the big board and I was struggling with the rip and trying to keep her straight as i pushed her off the waves.

A crab bit my big toe and i leapt screaming from the water. Of course Hannah and henny thought this was very amusing, and even more amused when they found i'd been bitten by one of the things i'd denied the existence of earlier.

i happened again and again before we all came home, ever gracious in victory they pulled my leg about it all the way home

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  smile #1

ever the optimist, but still striving to be more optimistic in 2007, go see what the savage chickens have to say on this, be prepared to smile

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  2007 #3 had fun at work even though it was like a morgue [cold and deserted]

coming home in the car which had been heated all day by the SUNSHINE, for the first time in the day i was warm

pizza and beer with the boys while we watched fight club [the confused conversation as it dawned on them that jack and tyler were the same person]

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  happy to be living here see the other photo for the other view from the top of the dunes

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  friday i'm in love Hiring a long board on the beach. No photos today even though yesterday was very sunny and possiblythe hottest so far this holiday. before lunch very little wind, the rising surf and high tide. afterwards the rising easterly took the joy from the day, but not before henny had her defining moment

watching henny surf the long board into the beach, standing up and grinning from ear to ear. Looking back over her shoulder and grinning from ear to ear, checking out whether dad has been watching. i had, and i saw it all.

eliot did as well, though from further out and with a few wiggles thrown for good measure.

friday night is pizza night another tradition. i'm grateful for being able to sit watching Star Wars 2 eating homemade pizza [cooked in the recently refurbished oven that now works when the old one ruined everything i baked in it] followed by foul tasting chocolate from Cadbury who have ruined triple decker by adding this bright pink top layer. It may be the last time i let henrietta choose the movie chocolate again.

the politically incorrect joy of a sunburned face, and the tingle of feet that are also too red for their own good

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