Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Australian Reptile Park.



The photo today shows Anna-Kate and Luke with their cousin Ashleigh.

We visited the Australian Reptile park and as usual I took far too many pics so will try and limit them ! My MIL, SIL and her daughter (Ashleigh) came for a visit from South Africa for 2 weeks. We all had a lovely time !

Monday, April 18, 2011

For my friends back in the UK.


We are all well - have had a bumpy year due to lots of things. But in a more positive place now !

Saturday, December 25, 2010

Christmas Day on the Central Coast.


Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. May 2011 bring you all health and happiness.
Love from Vanessa XXXX

Wednesday at the beach.

I promised the children a day out on Wednesday as I knew we would be more or less stopping at home on Thursday and Friday.

Here we are at the new park at Umina.
Ann-Kate was there with her sunnies !
Managed to get the tent up ....

Greg would rather be sailing than be at work !

Finishing off the picnic at the park.

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

My garden - this weekend.

Found these little mushrooms in my vegetable patch on Saturday morning. They were so cute. Could almost see the fairy sitting on top - or is that underneath ?
My ginger - well one part I am growing, bought from the supermarket. It is growing well. My other piece of ginger is growing well too.

Lots of tomatoes - just need them to turn red.

My butternut squash are doing well, have some melon in there too I think - also waiting for the cucumber to pop up - if the dog has not eaten the seeds!

My first teeny tiny carrot - ate it in two bites !! It was sweet though.




Friday, December 17, 2010

First Hail and then a Rainbow.

Not a great photo - but the hail stones were pretty big. The sky went really dark and I thought it was raining but it didn't sound right somehow - so we went to look out the window and saw hail. Luke was very excited - you would have thought it was snowing!

Then later on in the day - a rainbow came out.

Thursday, December 16, 2010

Tenby, Wales - finally finished.

I have finally finished Tenby, Wales! Just need to iron it - but was so excited to have finished I took a photo straight after the final stitch.
On Tuesday I pulled out a WIP - this has been in progress since we lived in the UK. All I had to do was sew on the sequins and beads. It is for Anna-Kate for Christmas. I don't know if she saw me working on it in the UK or not ...

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