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Had a wonderful wonderful evening on Mt Vic last night with Sara, Lucy & Jif to say farewell and toast to new adventures. Quite a perfect spot really, overlooking the airport. Poor old Jif is being left behind but the rest of us were getting high on bubbles and pizza and looking ahead to our new lives in Sydney (for them starting today and lasting forEVER) and ours in New York, shorter, but starting next week!

We’ll miss you guys!

Had a lovely afternoon playing Top Models at the beach with a proper photographer taking family photos this weekend – everyone was together for Pen’s birthday and our gift to her was some family photos seeing as it’s not often these days that we’re all together, kids and all. Here’s one of my favourites and you can see more on Flickr.

The boys also recreated a scene with the 3 of them wearing matching yellow t-shirts with their names on them when they were (as best we can work out) 10, 8 & 3 which was hilarious and went down well. Trying to get Craig to wear his t-shirt into work but he’s not keen, apparently yellow is not his colour!

Happy Birthday Pen! xo

This year I’m doing a project that quite a few people have done – Project 365 – which is to take a photo every day of the year. I don’t really have an artistic goal in mind, not aiming to get better at taking photos or anything like that, it’s just I take quite a lot of photos of random, every day things anyway so I thought I might as well make a conscious effort to take and publish one photo a day.

So, January is over and I have 31 photos for the project so far.

The photos are published on Flickr, in my set called Project 365.

Went for a wander today up to Aro Street – I can’t believe how relentless the wind is at the moment and I certainly wasn’t dressed for summer. Aro Street looks a bit like small town New Zealand in this photo – not a city suburb.

This is the first photo I’m bringing you from my Flickr account. See how you get on … you can click on it.

What great weather – hopefully it lasts! More Christmas spirit this morning at Moore Wilson’s but what a crowd! We knew it would be a time for patience and we targetted the specific areas we knew most likely to be popular first but we did well to delay our arrival because produce was still arriving and being unpacked when we got there.

However Cafe L’Affare were there again making free coffee out the front and people were handing out nibbles and glasses of bubbly in store. If you know it’s going to be like that before you get there it makes it so much easier to just go slowly and take it all in.

Raspberries and salad were popular, but we got some in the end

Waiting patiently in the lines that stretched back passed the fridges

Put the raspberry layer on the trifles before heading into work

Spotted my first full red tree on the way to Nikau today – they really are pretty amazing.

And a couple more spotted when walking around town after Christmas – this one on Oriental Parade

And this one right in the city on Taranaki Street

Went over to Martinborough for our Christmas party yesterday – we went on the train and toured 2 wineries and an olive grove before ending up at Murdoch James for more tasting and dinner. It was a pretty cool afternoon – can’t remember laste time I went on  train locally and the trip to Featherston went by pretty quickly.

It was really windy in Martinborough but it was cool hanging around chatting with everyone. At Palliser ,

And wandering through the olive grove at Olivo.

Train got us back into town by 10pm so all in all a good afternoon and a nice break from the city.

Yep – the tall building research in Wellington continues even at the weekend – yesterday it was the Plimmer Towers. Although we’ve had the contract through for our 29th floor apartment in New York so it’s a bit late to back out now!

I didn’t think I’d be able to get into Plimmer Towers and certainly not at the weekend – however the glass doors opened when I approached them so there was no stopping me. The Mister followed with trepidation muttering that he’d never been in there before and how would we know where to go?  I just hissed that we should act as though we knew what we were doing for the benefit of the security cameras so I followed the sound of the ‘ding’ the lift made when the person who we’d tail-gated into the building called it and (thankfully the doors closed on her before we got there) punched the call button. Lift arrived, got in, noted the number of floors, got out and left the building as swiftly as we’d come.

31 floors.

This has got to be a classic New Zealand shot – Christmas trees leaning up out the front of the petrol station. It’s truly Christmas time. These in Miramar yesterday.

Looks pretty tall from the outside, obviously couldn’t get into the lifts as it’s in the office block tower, but my best count from the outside is that it’s about 17 floors. So a pipsqueak really.