Category: Photos
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Congratulations to Ben!
A big congratulations to my husband today who won the New Zealand Mathematical Society research award for 2012. He won jointly with another mathematician from Auckland, Tom ter Elst. Here’s a photo of father and daughter:
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Our Christmas Tree
It’s Christmas tree time again. Last year we bought a living branch which was very full and beautiful and smelt delicious, but it inevitably turned into a very big dead branch. I’m not so keen on that again and I really hate the plastic trees. When I first moved to New Zealand, Ben and I…
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Earthquake strengthening, Tourette's and Team Work
I snapped a photograph of this building in central Auckland last week because not only does it look beautiful, but I think it has the most effective earthquake strengthening I’ve seen yet. That facade is never falling off! The paediatrician who saw Daniel a couple of weeks ago phoned me this week. She wanted to…
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Raglan and the C-barn
We just spent the weekend in Raglan: a little coastal village on the west coast of the North Island, a couple of hours by car south from Auckland. It was great. The whole region was very picturesque with lush, green hills and winding roads. The hills were bigger than your average hill which made for…
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What to do about a sore neck?
For the past few months, I’ve had a sore neck. The pain was just on one side of the neck (right side) and spread down into my shoulder and the upper quadrant of my back on that side only. It wasn’t debilitating, but always there and so irritating. The pain in my back and shoulder…
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The need for control
When you don’t like where you live but there’s little you can do about it, there’s only one thing to do…and that is, colour your hair. This creates a feeling of having some control over your life, when in reality, you have none. So it was with this thought that I decided to ditch the…
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More scenes from Auckland, frogs and play
More scenes from Auckland as viewed from inside our car (most of Auckland is viewed from within one’s car): I watched a great TED talk yesterday titled, Science is for everyone, kids included. It’s delivered by an adult, Beau Lotto, and a12-year-old girl, Amy O’Toole, who is the youngest published scientist in the world. There are…
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Scenes from Auckland
A couple of weekends ago I took Daniel and Elizabeth to a farm west of Auckland. They had a lovely time, patting and feeding animals. I took some photos which I’ve been meaning to share. Elizabeth loves feeding animals, even sticking her fingers into their mouths on occasion. Daniel likes feeding animals too and inadvertently…
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Opshopping
I had a great trip to the opshop this morning with a fellow opshopper here in Auckland: the very lovely Pascale. I got this gorgeous, 100% silk top by Gail Elliot – Little Joe New York – for $8. Ok, so my amateur photo doesn’t really do it justice and it needs an iron, but…
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'Twas a bit windy last night…
…and the neighbour’s tree smashed onto another neighbour’s BMW. It snapped clean off at the base:
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Brewery tour for $10 and Collette Dinnigan for $6
Ben is home. Hooray! He had a very productive trip in the Black Forest region of Germany. It wasn’t all work though. On one day, he took some time off to visit a German brewery. For the paltry sum of NZ$10, he got a tour of the brewery, two cups of beer and this handsome…
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Freud has been poparted
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The Polkadots
Elizabeth doesn’t like saying “sorry”. When she does something that warrants an apology, I ask her in the nicest tone possible, “say sorry”. Her reply is always, “I’m too busy”. Yesterday I took the kids to see The Polkadots – a New Zealand children’s band – in concert. Elizabeth just loves them and always sings…
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Daniel's serve and Siri
I took a lovely photograph of Daniel this week at his tennis lesson. He’s just served the ball: The photo was taken with my new iphone and edited and uploaded using the same device. I’ve just started experimenting with Siri – the voice recognition software – today. It is quite amazing. I can remember testing…
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Daniel's computer game
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I bought Elizabeth some face paints….
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Tennis, prostitutes and triangles
Daniel has started taking tennis lessons. We thought it would be fun for him and a good way to develop some bat and ball skills and so far he’s enjoying them. His first lesson was last week and I haven’t mentioned anything to the coach about his suspected autism but one thing about autistic children…
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Relatives
We’ve had some lovely visitors this past week. Our niece, Frances, was with us for a whole week and we all enjoyed her visit very much. She sketched a picture of Freud for us before she left. I love it! Thank you, Frances. She’s a very talented young lady. Then we had the pleasure of…
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Sheep in Auckland
We visited a friend of ours today and she has some pretty cool neighbours. Sheep! Lambing season has begun Checking for dags Freud has completely bounced back and is practically 100% again. How does he do that? Now he’s back to scavenging for food in the rubbish overnight, lungeing at cats and barking at dogs.
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A day at the beach
Freud has perked up again. He’s a bit of yoyo. One day I think, this is it, he’s going to die, then the next day he recovers and continues onward. He’s not 100% but he has started eating again. The Vet gave me some acid-reducing medication as kidney disease can cause ulcers and gastric bleeding,…
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