Dads 89th birthday lunch

Bacon, egg , cheese , relish and tomato (from the garden) toasties
(a favorite)

Christchurch Cathedral

 

Coffee and cake with mum...

"Just Deserts" Christchurch

Inner peace 2

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Ferry people

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Inner peace

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Birthday bash

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Two views of the sky tower - morning and evening

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Mist in Feb

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Sunrise on 1st Feb

(updated - BlogPress does not really cut the mustard with photos)

Two trim flat whites

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Surf is up ...

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From Aucklnad Harbour Bridge

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Happy New Year from Auckland NZ

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(click for a bigger view)

For KK ...... almost the view from your new house.

Taken with you from your truck !!

For Jim

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Jim you were always the observer of people,

these are for you, we all miss you

Famlies at the gallery

Bemused

Cake at the Gallery

 

 

Auckland art gallery

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Seven "sleeps" till christmas

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Shadow

Birkenhead ferry terminal

Fog on the way to work

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(IPhone 4)

Owen Glenn Building - Auckland University

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Coffee at the Auckland Art Gallery

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The upstairs cafe overlooking Albert Park

Before and after !!

(IPhone4)

West Plaza Wellington

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A little old, a little tired maybe, but my periodic  home on business trips for over 15 years

Good points : not hermetically sealed and stinking of "fragrance" like its newer competition (ie windows that actually open) , comfortable decent sized rooms with everything you need,  live music in the lobby - at one point a harpist - currently a chap on a grand, right in the middle of town (handy to everything), a bar with staff who stay more than five minutes so you get recognised, very reliable restaurant ie no "bad" meals in 15 years and some very very good ones, friendly staff, clean, comprehensive breakfasts, well priced (for Wellington) , bad points : none really  



(View east above and west below )

Auckland Harbour Bridge

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Looking south

Looking north

Looking north

(Photos by Lynette B)

Reopened Auckland Art Gallery

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Breakfast coffee in the cafe in the reopened gallery

Very good coffee, attention to detail and highly recommended

(food is also good and staff friendly and helpful)

Front entrance

Flowers which inflate and deflate in the gallery lobby.

Great idea .

(Will return with a better camera than IPhone)

"Lunchroom by night"

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Breakfast

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The simple things done well equals perfection

Breakfast by the Cheese maker

Runny eggs , crunchy toast and crispy bacon

oh yes , very well done

but wait ... the next day ... add cold smoked salmon

a breakfast fit for the brain work that followed

Inside the cloud

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Rugby World Cup "Party Central" (before the party )

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Ferry building and the Rugby World Cup "cloud"

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Ferry building

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Sunrise on my umbrella

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Birkenhead sunrise

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for my "soup maker" - pork, chicken, carrot and apple - oh yes :))