Extended family get together

Lucy, my niece, gave all of Steve's family a reason to get together by having a birthday.
Here she (in the purple top) is at a table with her friends, her mother, Julie (Steve's sister), is in the foreground with a cuppa and cake and her brother, Rowan, has his back to the camera.






Pictured here from left to right are Steve's other sister, Annie, his mother and father with a little of Dion, nephew just in frame. We all sat around in the sun outside and enjoyed a chat, cuppa and cake. It was a great way to get together.




This little cutie is Charlotte AKA Charlie, she is Lucy's niece and our great niece. Sweet isn't she?

This weekend we went camping. We wanted to make the most of my having two weekends off. Steve also took a long weekend and we were able to leave mid afternoon Friday. This is the packing up exercise. It is always the hard part and at one point we thought we would need a trailer.
Poor Steve was very patient about what had to go with us. And we managed to get it all there safely and back.


This is a picture of the beach near the campsite at Lagoon Beach between Falmouth and Bicheno. It was beautiful but there was a lot of surf and the fish wouldn't have been able to get caught if they had have wanted to. The lures kept being washed up on the beach further along.




It was here at Bicheno that we all went swimming. Yes, even me. The surf was awesome for bodysurfing. It was difficult to stand in the breakers so we headed out a bit. Hence it is difficult to see who is in the water.





Sadly all good things must end and here is the campsite as we left it. apart from Steve hiding behind the tree, there was no sign that we had even been there.

A friend gets married

On Saturday I was privileged to attend my friend Fiona's wedding. We became friends during our uni experience and we got each other through the gruelling time there. It was wonderful to share her big day. She made a beautiful bride. Mark managed to scrub up well too.