Christmas Day....

In contrast to the weather back in the UK... (photo of my brothers back garden)


We've had a hot, sunny Christmas day... In the morning we took the dogs down to the river for a swim and a run about. Dan and Lou ended up in the river with them as it was so warm...


We decided that as it was such a great day that we wouldn't go to the beach we'd stay at home and make the most of the day by splashing about in the pool..!!



No traditional Christmas roast this year.... Instead we ate outside and had Prawns and Steak on the BBQ, and then for pud a kiwi classic a Pavlova... Yummmmy!!



More splashing about....

Building work....

We're having some work done on the house and the scaffold has gone up at the front and back of the house. It went up in stages and now is over 7m high. Because of the new height (to meet the apex of the roof!) the man from OSH had to come out and approve it!

Tony, Dan and Louise testing it!




Notice anything different...! Apart from no window......



No bricks..... just wood!!

Hamtastic...!!

Tony came home from work and said that he'd won a prize in a raffle, but couldn't remember what it was.....

Few days later he came home with his win... A 6.5kg ham....



Looks like we'll be eating alot of ham over christmas......

Awwww! Foals!!!

Couple of weeks ago friends mare had her foal.... a filly... So we rushed over at 8am to see them. She's only a few hours old....





Then the following weekend another of their mares had her foal and it's a filly too! In these pics the foal is 3 days old...






And here are some of the first foal at 1 week old...

Summer is nearly here!

On the 1st December it's offically Summer here and the weather is warming up nicely!

Today we took the dogs down to the beach for a run....



Then in the afternoon as the temperature was climbing in to the 30's..



We spent the afternoon in the pool...

At the River.... Video clips...!

I've finally worked out how to upload video clips.... These are my first goes... They are a bit wobbly as I was on my own with the dogs!!



Second one

Warming up!

We're moving towards summer now and today the temp in the shade was 30!!



Louise had a friend round and they spent ages in the pool!

For Sale: Push Bike.....

Dan passed his 'restricted' driving test end of Oct. He did have plans to continuing biking to school to save money on fuel. That didn't even last a day as the day after passing he was driving to school. It is weird that he goes off to school in the morning in his school uniform and then gets into his car!!

An afternoon's lesson in car maintenance....

Birdies....

Whilst doing alot of pruning and hacking back foliage.. (Stuff grows really fast here.. I swear sometimes I can actually watch the grass grow.. its that fast!!!) We came across these chaps... Luckily we were only half way through sawing their branch so we've left them.. Looks like they could be leaving the nest in a short while!



Monday 26th October....