Seb and I went up to Savill Gardens and watched the fly past from the polo fields. Fantastic spot – the planes flew right over our heads on their way down the long walk to Windsor.
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Easter Sunday
Rather sleepy Sunday. Nice start with chatting to Lawson and Lee Ann via Skype video – both on our Android tablets. And free. Easter service at St Johns. Involved eggs for the children. A few website/Facebook updates and a movie for the children. Now debating if we should watch this:
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Finally got round to watching this on DVD yesterday. Kept trying to make it to the cinema with Seb in the UK and NZ but didn’t quite manage it. Lovely film.
Seb the Writer
Sebastian enjoys writing; short stories that usually involve some element of Star Wars or at least space and mild violence. At the end of last year he wrote a story spanning several pages that we didn’t know about until the parent-teacher evening and we looked through his term work. Recently one of his short stories [...]
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Day Seventeen
Our NZ summer is a letdown. Instead of sunny, dry weather we’re currently getting drizzled on and looking for indoor activities. Fortunately we found Chipmunks. Fortunate in the way only parents could see. But a happy few hours for the children (playing) and the adults (drinking coffee and eating wedges). Then back to family tasks [...]
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Day Sixteen
So the usual early start courtesy of Seb and Bella. Well, mainly Bella. Since there has been a distinct lack of brunching so far on this trip, we decided to remedy this situation with a visit to the Cosy Cafe. Slightly lame name but they turned out an excellent set of pancakes and an accompanying [...]
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Day Fifteen
No earthquakes or aftershocks. Or at least none that we felt. Take a look at my twitterfeed site for Christchurch earthquake related tweets and info. A lazy start to the day (if you don’t count getting up at 6am with the children), lunch at home and then into the centre of Christchurch for a look [...]
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Day Fourteen
Lovely evening in Tekapo; wandering around the lakefront, visiting the Church of the Good Shepherd where Ben and Maree were married last year and getting some dinner at Route 77. Only downside was not turning on the hot water at the house and so we had warm, but not hot, showers in the morning. Small [...]
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Day Thirteen
We left Dunedin just after 10am and drove up State Highway 1 to Oamaru where we turned left on to highway 83 towards Kurow and Tekapo. If you haven’t driven through this part of New Zealand then I suggest you get in a car, train, plane, boat and get here to do it. Utterly stunning [...]
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