Starting with Moira, and the beginning of playing around acting. A friend of hers got a grant to make a movie, a documentary, but there’s a Desperate Housewives subplot, and she gets to be that.
In the other pictures she was looking comfortable with a wine glass in front of her.
In front of our house is a not yet large Magnolia, one day it will be I guess, might not be here then.
More flowers, not winter yet!
We went to Tauranga, and on the way called in on my brother Allan, and took a picture of the painting brother Kevin did for him. Kevin was navigating in rallies with him back when I was in Germany.
As kids we used to be at Mount Maunganui quite often I think, it has great appeal.
The beach
And the Mount, Mauao
Those fellas flying around there bring Hanspeter and others to mind, that have died doing that sort of thing. I can see the appeal though.
The place we stayed in Tauranga was great, maybe the best all round Airbnb place I have ever stayed in.
After we checked in, we wandered over the ridge into the CBD, to check it out.
Nice public art there, and a great railway bridge
Lots of interesting bits and pieces too.
We had a mission though, climb Mauao!
So the next day. Starting down on the port side
And up to encounter this dystopic entity
The water pressure of Mt Maunganui.
It was a 45min to an hour walk to the top, no idea why I have never been there before, maybe the access/ownership was different back then.
Looking out to the west over Matakana Island.
And a reminder that it is a little steep in places.
Once you get to the top though, there are great views.
It was a bit of a hazy day, but below looking North.
Then down
To sit and have coffee and cake and chat away with Jeff.
The next day we headed home, via Cambridge. Where they had a pic of Billy T. James, who was from Leamington.
He was a funny guy and a great Kiwi comedian. Also featuring on lamp posts in Balmoral. Not sure I under stand this
But then not sure I understand the Cambridge horse either
All in all a great break. That Airbnb was good, going up Mauao was great, not too challenging, with forest and views, should do the walk around it too.
Back home and back at work now. More breaks coming soon.
So nice! 🙂