Annie's Blog

Warming up, cooling down.. It's summer! Finding new flowers blooming eating yummy tropical mangoes and yummy stone fruit starting a new healthy diet Fun with kids and family Unpacking boxes Enjoying 30 degrees Celsius after 42 degrees Celsius! Enjoying an overhead fan instead of an air-conditioner! Enjoying less smoke haze than last night after the record breaking heatwave blew away in a gusty south easterly change! Summer days and nights of watching cricket, and tennis swimming to cool off and exercise Enjoying a new church new people... Forgive generously      Love extravagantly          Live Abundantly. (words taken from the end of the Anglican church service).

Had to go to the podiatrist to sight the ocean again..not a bad excuse! One day I might even get to walk on the beach with bare feet, and maybe even swim again! One can always dream. Funny that the podiatrist was in the same street we used to go visit relatives at the beach a long while ago. Well it seems a long while ago when the kids were still at home and we all went to the beach together! sigh. Guess 20 years is a long time.

Still winter time here officially, some cold nights, but very pleasant days sometimes it is cozier in bed in the early mornings... but where are we now going up to visit the grandchildren again is always fun..and the drive is wonderful to get out of the city again and off to the pool for the swimming training for a little one... looks like she had the pool to herself for a bit there one on one instruction must be a great way to learn fast...great to see the little one swimming...yay! and then off to a soccer game....time to warm up and check out the opposition try to ignore the trains going past and concentrate on kicking the ball then it's time to go to the park... time to have some more fun a wonderful glimpse of the Japanese Gardens as we walk through peach blossom in flower and a stop at College's Crossing on the way home... to see what has happened since the floods earlier in the year not much in the way of new infrastructure, apart from the new re...