boxing day at the beach
there’s esther and kezia in the sea on their new boogie boards. i didn’t spot the ‘fin’ in the background at the time. gulp
December 2009
crumpet control
at last, we have a way to control crumpets in our house. long overdue.
a very merry kiwi christmas
bit too tired and rather too hot to do a proper blog post today i’m afraid, but just to say we had a fab time with bignoseduglyguy (above) and family yesterday during our first highly enjoyable kiwi christmas which involved much eating, swimming, drinking and laughing.
there were various excellent quotes from the day but my favourite was the made up answer to our joke creation.
it helps if you know there’s a road called the ‘desert road’ (one ‘s’) in New Zealand.
i though there must be a joke in there somewhere and got us all to think of good answers to the joke question of “what driving offence could you be arrested for on the dessert road”
there were various great answers, but my favourite was “i was jelly frightened”. it made no sense at the time either but we laughed til the tears ran down our faces.
we were even able to meet a local celebrity chef !
i hope you all had fab christmases !
you are no one
sometimes it’s best not to abbreviate the word ‘number’ with ‘no’.
esther saw the funny side of her lovely present to me so she kindly let me share it.
xmas eve in new zealand
we decided to have our traditional christmas roast outside on christmas eve as we’re out with friends doing the ‘kiwi christmas’ BBQ thing tomorrow. so here are some photos of our day
out with brussel sprouts, in with asparagus. you always need something people will think is really yucky on the plate.
a new set of cracker jokes. not sure about websites being ‘trendy’. who has a website these days ? it’s all about facebook my friend.
here are jane’s avante-garde mince pies
home made board games (by esther)
the giant santa in downtown auckland, recently received a facelift so it looks less like a child catcher. it wasn’t a good look previously apparently.
we also had lunch of bangers and mash in a hardware shop. posh in a down to earth kind of way. you’ve got to love this country
happy christmas everyone !
we wish you a merry christmas from new zealand
if you really want to mess with your brain get more than one version playing at the same time out of sync. i’ve given you some more below to play at the same time (thanks to my mum for this fantastic idea):
not quite as good as this though which is what we’re experiencing (the sun part, not rolf or his status quo chums)
kiwi christmas mannequins
the scary mannequin in our local maul has been joined by an equally scary doll.
no no no
the last line on this sign (which is squashed in to a poor bollard) is classic.
christmas tree 2009
for the last few years we’ve put on our warmest coats and gone to the local xmas tree place and cut down our own christmas tree. but we’ve now moved to new zealand and haven’t been able to locate a cut it yourself xmas tree place.
so instead we went to a local tree place “trees to please” said the sign. and a man with a permed mullet carried a precut tree to our car.
then we dragged it in to the house and popped it in the corner ready to decorate
here’s some more of our house if you are interested (getting ready for a raclette with friends on sunday evening)
