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Sunday, 14 Feb 2016 | Views [609]
This last year has been a hard one for one of my daughters. Sadly her marriage has ended and living in Australia where you are penalised for being a Kiwi she has had a hard row to hoe to stay living there. Luckily prior to their breakup C had started ... Read more >
Monday, 25 Jan 2016 | Views [608]
Molly has gone. A day before we arrived back home after New Year Molly disappeared, it was not a good time nor good circumstances but I'm not going into it. We found her wee body so had closure but we are still shaken and shocked. We miss her so
Monday, 14 Dec 2015 | Views [716]
It's been a good year for riding. From January to May we were on the bikes almost every weekend. I take the bike off the road over winter as I admit I am a fair weather rider, can't handle the wind chill factor when it's cold. Got it back on the road ... Read more >
Friday, 13 Nov 2015 | Views [837] | Comments [1]
Example of an October day:
My neice is over from America for a very short visit. Monday I have planned for us to spend the day doing things together.
7.30 Kent wakes and is feeling so bad he can't go to work
8.30 I go to his ... Read more >
Monday, 31 Aug 2015 | Views [725]
My eldest grandson Spencer has just turned 3! Is it only me or is time going by faster and faster... Is it that life is getting fuller and fuller (is that correct english?). He's a gorgeous boy anyway. I go up every third weekend and help out with him ... Read more >
Monday, 3 Aug 2015 | Views [753]
I'm not really a cat person but every chance she can get our cat Molly comes and sits on me, on the couch, on the bed... I give her her biscuits now and then and she gets a stroke down her back but other than that not much TLC from me as she is Kent's ... Read more >
Friday, 3 Jul 2015 | Views [685]
We trundle along happily then life throws those curveballs in there just so we don't relax too much. When you are young you ride the waves of those curveballs and revel in the containment or control of the situation. The stress is like adrenaline pushing ... Read more >
Friday, 13 Mar 2015 | Photo Gallery
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Friday, 13 Mar 2015 | Views [1858]
Today my 2nd grandson and 4th grandchild was born and I was there to witness the event. Laetitia had rung me the day before to tell me things seemed to be on their way so I raced in to work and organised things so that I could go up to Auckland immediately.... Read more >
Monday, 5 Jan 2015 | Views [848]
Wow 2015 already! I still remember the hype for Y2K... doesn't seem that long ago. A lot has changed in my life in these last 15 years and I have done a lot of things. This year I have my 59th birthday so will be starting into my 60th year. That is also ... Read more >
Friday, 7 Nov 2014 | Views [827]
I had an experience twice in my life which was in essence the same thing - an object was left by one partner in a relationship in a place that annoyed the other. The object was left for some days with the one getting more and more annoyed and the other ... Read more >
Friday, 31 Oct 2014 | Views [841]
At the beginning of this year when I was booking our flights for our USA trip there was an advert for cheap flights to the Gold Coast and I booked a flight over our Labour Weekend in October to have a week with Corrin. Luckily my employers are great, ... Read more >
Friday, 31 Oct 2014 | Photo Gallery
Renovation
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Thursday, 30 Oct 2014 | Views [730]
Action line for our kitchen:
Go to a local 'Home Show'and get the idea to make some changes to the kitchen.
Make a rough plan of our idea, discuss it with eveyone we can to get ideas, get kitchen people in to give their ideas. Keep going until ... Read more >
Saturday, 12 Jul 2014 | Views [841]
Home again, luckily the weather was perfect when we came back, thank you weatherman-person! We arrived early and Luke picked us up at 5.30am in darkness but not too coldness. At his home we managed to disturb Miss 2 yr old and I snuck down the pitch ... Read more >
Tuesday, 1 Jul 2014 | Views [862]
That was what the bike's GPS said to us this morning as we left Denver headed towards Kansas. We arrived in Denver yesterday, after a wonderful drive from Grand Junction through more amazing scenery, at lunchtime to neice Haleys flat and met her partner ... Read more >
Sunday, 29 Jun 2014 | Views [917]
The ET highway was a big nothing, just fairly boring road and no views of anything, no visiting aliens... Got to the highway from Las Vegas to St George and there were road works so it was backed up a fair way, we stopped for a bite to eat and contemplate ... Read more >
Thursday, 26 Jun 2014 | Views [748]
We rode out from San Francisco over the Golden Gate Bridge and headed south and east to Yosemite National Forest stopping in Modesto for food at the Firken Fox. We had booked a night at the Yosemite Bug Hostel where we stayed in a tent cabin, on arrival ... Read more >
Tuesday, 24 Jun 2014 | Views [855]
The road up the coast (1) was interesting, we rode with friends we met on R66 AnneMarie & Rene each riding a Harley. We seperated at San Luis Obispo where we turned off to Morro Bay and they rode on towards San Francisco. We had only one problem ... Read more >
Thursday, 19 Jun 2014 | Views [751]
There are lots of things I haven't mentioned like the fact that the first day the group rode to Springfield then on to St Louis but we rode all the way to St Louis that first day so we could visit with Aaron & Kristen and Ben & Denae & family.... Read more >
Wednesday, 18 Jun 2014 | Views [880]
We are riding long days and arriving at our motels in the early evening in time for a shower, quick swim if there is a pool, some dinner, organise our clothes for tomorrow and sleep. The motels advertise WIF'I but it isn't good and often doesn't even ... Read more >
Wednesday, 21 May 2014 | Views [761]
Winter is setting in here, some days are cold and others when the wind doesn't blow are still balmy. I am looking forward to being back in summer for a month in the USA. 10 days to go to the start of our trip! I have to say though that I haven't had ... Read more >
Thursday, 10 Apr 2014 | Views [902]
It's been such a good month (or so) the weather has been terrific! There's been lots to do!! And the blog has waited...
Firstly at the beginning of the month my very bestest friend feels like sister Maxine turned 50. As begets her birthdays now and ... Read more >
Saturday, 8 Feb 2014 | Views [883]
I do so try to be orderly. In fact I love to organise things, at present I have rearranged our family room and am busy organising things into designated areas. When it's finished I will feel that glow of satisfaction that preceeds looking for another ... Read more >
Tuesday, 24 Dec 2013 | Views [777]
X marks the spot where I will be when I get my present. What present is that I hear you say? My new granddaughter! What? she couldn't wait!
It's official, I am a Nanma for the third time. Due on the 26th December Georgia Johnson was born a week early ... Read more >
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