Tag: photos
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We’ve got a bakfiets!
We have been very busy here. So busy in fact, that I’ve neglected my blog. But I have some great news to report today: we have wheels! Just two, completely carbon-neutral wheels. This is an original Dutch bakfiets, a second-hand one, built especially for lugging children and shopping around town and countryside. I have wanted…
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More pics of the main streets of St Andrews
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The Himalayan Putting Course
Someone suggested to me this morning that we visit the The Himalayan Putting Course in St Andrews and by strange coincidence we just happened to be on our way to this very spot. The Himalayan Putting Course is run by the Ladies Putting Club and is open to everyone, including beginners and children but only…
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More from St Andrews
You can’t go to St Andrews without visiting the world-famous Swilcan Bridge and this we did today. I’m not sure whether you’re allowed to walk onto the green for the purpose of taking photos but we did and no-one told us off. Here are our tacky tourist photos. Ben is attending a conference here so…
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St Andrews
We are in the lovely coastal village of St Andrews, Scotland. The Ricoh British Women’s Golf Open is currently running (not the reason we’re here) and the place is heaving with golf enthusiasts. An English friend of mine who recently spent some time in New Zealand (you know who you are!) told me that British…
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Day 2 in Glasgow
We have word from a Glaswegian that it rains twice a year in Glasgow: for three months over the summer and nine months over the winter. I like a city that can make fun of itself. Today was a rainy day so we took the city bus tour which was terrific and I highly recommend…
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Glasgow
We are in Glasgow. I’ve never been here before and have wanted to visit the city for some time so yesterday we caught the train from London to Glasgow which was a very fast 4.5 hour journey covering over 540km. I love Glasgow. It has quite a distinctive look to it with lots of grand…
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London: Day 3
Yesterday was a day of museums. Our plan was to visit the Natural History Museum but when we got there we found an enormous queue to get in. So instead we went into the Victoria and Albert museum which is right next door and was queue-free. We barely touched the surface of this museum which…
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Silliness
There’s a fair amount of silliness in our household. I blame these two:
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Devonport
My very lovely sister is visiting us from Brisbane. I haven’t seen her for two years so it is a big deal for all of us. Today I took her to Devonport which is a quaint village on the North Shore. I know I complain endlessly about Auckland but my complaints are related more to…
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Lake House Arts
A few weeks ago Daniel attended a dragon-making art class at the Lake House Arts centre. I took some nice photos but have been too busy reading scientific journals to upload them to my blog. Here they are at last: While Daniel was busy being artistic, Elizabeth and I wandered around the grounds. They…
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Make a wish
Elizabeth has just discovered how much fun it is to make a wish on fluffy dandelion seeds, spreading the invasive weed far and wide. Me: What did you wish for? Elizabeth: Coins. That’s a bit materialistic for a 3-year-old, isn’t it? Elizabeth: Chocolate coins. Phew. She’s more interested in chocolate coins than metal ones. That’s…
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First Ballet Class
Elizabeth had her first ballet class today and she loved it!
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Waitangi Day
A friend of ours said to me this morning, “I read the article you wrote for Stuff Nation”. What!? A couple of weeks ago I made a blog post about how to save the world by bicycle. I’m quite passionate about this topic and really wanted to spread my thoughts and because I only have…
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Saturday morning at Takapuna
It has been quite hot here. Not as bad as the heat folks in Australia are enduring, but hotter than we’re used to. So we’ve been swimming in the sea every other day and I’m quite enjoying it. This morning I thought it would be nice to go for an early swim at Takapuna beach…
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Santa
We visited Santa at snowplanet today and the kids sat on his lap and discussed presents. They loved it. Then we had fun snow tubing with Dad, Olivia and TJ. Even Elizabeth loved the experience and was in hysterics when slipping and sliding down the slope. A photo of us all: Daniel has…
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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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“Take my photo”
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School is back
Daniel returned to school this week and is very happy to be back and to see his Korean girlfriends again. His teacher is Australian and yesterday he was suddenly quite excited and began flapping his hands and asked me, “If you’re Australian and Mrs Price is Australian, when you were 5 and she was 5…
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New Chums beach and more
Our weekend of adventure is now over and we are back at home. Fortunately the mishaps we had at the beginning did not continue and the rest of our weekend was very nice. We stayed in a little place called Whangapoua. The nearest beach was just a short 5 minute walk away: There was another…
