My Great Nephew's 15th Birthday with Family

Happy 15th Birthday Ethan love Aunty Diana & Uncle Dave

I must say I had a piece of both cakes, they were yummy.

Ethan with his two brothers Archer & Oscar

I was fortunate enough to get a lift up to Mt Vincent with my Neice Monqiue and her family, she is in the pink with her sons Remi & Luca, lovely day with family.

Bye for now

Dizee

A Busy Day & Evening with Friends

Had a really busy day on Saturday, first I was invited to lunch at a friends place at Cremorne.  Shelly did a really delicious menu for us. I went with my long time friend Jan and there, were some other of Shelley's friends, have a great adventure Shelley.

Lovely table setting.

Absolutely delicious dessert, thanks Shelley.

Photo above from left Shelley who put on the lunch.

A Function on the Dreaded Plastics of all kinds damaging our Oceans

The Queen of Plastic Bags 

Costa from SBS Gardening with the King of Plastic Bags

Tubes of Plastic Rubbish collected from our Oceans.

I would like to see that more people take more care of our environment.  In my area around the Christmas Holidays the rubbish is overwhelming to what it used to be.

 

Bye for now think of our evironment first.

Dizee

A Great Day Out On Sydney Harbour

I was invited to go for a day out on Sydney Harbour recently by a long time friend, four of us ladies went to the Sydney Flying Squadron at Kirribilli. We went to watch the sailing races they have on a Saturday afternoon. We went by bus to Wynard walked down to get the ferry across and then walked to the sailing club. While were waiting for us to go out on the ferry to take us to the race we had a really lovely lunch as the club.  Photos of the day on the harbour below:

Jackie, Diana, Jan, Caz and me

View from the verandah of the Sydney Flying Squadron Club

This yacht is called a "Moth" on foils.

One of the yachts from the Squadron Club

Hope you enjoyed the photos

Dizee

Trip to New Zealand

Dave and I went and visited our Eldest Son Pete and his family in a place called Lake Hawea, Wanaka New Zealand.  We had a really lovely time with them.  Dewi is a great mum and also said she loves being a mum.  Little Indigo is a really beautiful baby and is quite a happy one.  Pete hasn't quite finished building his house yet but will in the future.  He has been working in the Mountains so it makes quite hard to finish.  The weather was quite good, cool a couple of days and very hot a couple, and on the last night it became very windy and pouring with rain, it was really lovely to hear the rain on Pete & Dewi's metal roof as the insulation wasn't in as yet, that night we hoped it wasn't going to continue the next morning as Dave and I were leaving early for the airport.  Alas it was beautiful sunshine and with excitement Snow capped mountains for us to see all the way to the airport which was a really lovely ending to our trip.

View from their Lounge Room

Holly and her dog called "DIS" she named it from the saying

"dis and dat".

Holly being Doctor, she checked Indigo then all of us out, we were all well says Doctor Holly.

Planting of trees for each of us, this one is for Indigo

Day out for the "DUCK RACE" for Charity.

All the little duckies floating about a 3km ride down the river, our little duck didn't win.

I love this one of Holly, she arranged the lovely flowers on the table for our dinner.

Holly's beautiful little sister Indigo about 8 weeks old.

Pete with his bag full of mussels and abalone at a place called Haas West Coast South Island New Zealand we had a really lovely day there while Pete got our dinner.

Pete & Dave cooking up a storm with the mussels and abalone just caught, the meal was delicious.

Here I am trying to cook a one pot dinner on a barbeque, it was yummy, I have never used or cooked on a barbeque before, not bad for a first.

I think this is part of "Lake Hawea" where Pete, Dew, Holly & Indigo live.

Cheers Dizee!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR FOR 2012 to all

Well, where do I start, I know I am a bit late but haven't really felt like doing any blog, my mindset is still on holidays even though I don't work I still love the Christmas Holidays. First I started off riding my bicyle to the pool New Years Day morning, when leaving I had noticed I had forgotten my bike keys, I lock my bike up so I won't get knicked, my friend Jan saved the day she drove me to coffee, then we went to my place to get the bike keys, but guess what happened I thought I had one on my car keys, I got down there again but no key, what a huge DORY moment again, and what a way to start a new year, anyway my friend took off and luckily I had taken my mobile phone this time and rang her not for her to come back but to go to my home and get right keys, alas it worked and I have to give a big thanks to my friend, not a good way to start a NEW YEAR.

My next not so good experience was when I was taking down our Christmas Tree, all was going well when I started to clean up the bits on the floor and decided to put the lounge back in its place there on the floor was a snake.  Well as my family would know I absolutely hates snakes, I can't even look at them in a book or see them on Television.  I rang my daughter and her hubby but no one home of either phones, but then my hubby rang by coincedence and I told him, he said stay and keep an eye on it but I couldn't really didn't like to but I suppose I did to make sure he didn't go anywhere.  My daughter rang back and I got her hubby to come over and deal with it.  It turned out to be a "Blind Snake" about 30cm long, I know it wasn't that big but I don't like any of them.  Ben came with his trusty fishing gear and his little snake book, he got the snake into the bucket and put it down in our backyard in the bush.

Our Friend and her beautiful cards she made.

I want to put these photos from really lovely friends in England Moz & Mick, they send us the most beautiful cards, Moz does them all by hand, my husband get great birthdays as well, see below.

My husband love history as you can see by these beautiful birthday cards.

Hear is a couple of bit and pieces found in our yard.

This bird is called a "Channel-Billed Cuckoo.

It is the one that wakes us up nearly every morning with a terrible cukoo noise, sounds like it is choking.

Green Grocer Cicarda, first one we have seen in years, were very common when I was young.

Bye for now

Dizee!!

Ah!!! What a terrific Christmas with Family

It was a wonderful Christmas we had with family, it starts from Christmas Eve evening for a BBQ, the next day Christmas Day, then Boxing Day.  I took atleast 322 photos with my mighty canon camera.  It was held at my neice Monique and her families place the next suburb from us.  This year was made easier for her on the Christmas two days, each of us helped out with the doing some preparation with the food, Boxing Day was ours, we went to the netball courts at Curl Curl, Dave and I supplied the picnic lunch for all.  What a wonderful day it was as well, the kids had such a lot of room to ride bikes, scooters and also a great kids playground. 

Christmas Eve

Three of our Grandchildren

Oops out they go, the kids having a wonderful time at Aunty & Uncles place.

Good on you Benny!!

Wow what a shot.

Christmas Day

Another two of our Grandchildren Xmas Morning

Christmas present for Monique from Sister Leanne, our neices.

Yummy Pudding thanks Leanne. 

Below Boxing Day Fun at Curl Curl Park

  Hope you enjoyed you Christmas as we did.

HAPPY NEW YEAR-SEE YOU NEXT YEAR

DIZEE!!