More kangaroo pics

For some reason I can only fit 5 pictures per post, so here are some more from Diamond Head.

Diamond Head

Another Thursday, another incredible walk.

This time we went to Diamond Head, south of PMQ, and known for its resident kangaroos. There were lots of joeys of all sizes, much to Victor's delight. Actually, I was pretty delighted with them too. They're so cute!

We started with a BBQ lunch and then did a walk around Diamond Head.

It was a beautiful day. There were some incredible cloud formations - it did rain in the evening. The colours and textures that fill your vision on this walk are so magnificent.

I'll be sorry to leave this part of the world.

Our garden

Yesterday I had a lovely long breakfast in our garden. It's such a beautiful place and Victor has done an incredible job improving it.

We've had zucchini, snow peas, beans, and of course lots of herbs.

Soon we will have lots of rockmelons. You can see the bees enjoying the yellow flowers of the rockmelon vine, and some of the fruit growing.

I love our garden. (Tigger likes it too.)

Valentine's Day

This year I had the best Valentine's Day ever...

Victor told me dinner was booked for 7pm. We went for a drive beforehand - it was a beautiful evening and PMQ is such a beautiful place. We stopped at the lighthouse - our favourite place - and took a couple of photos.

Suddenly, out of the car boot Victor brought a card table and chairs, which he set up on the top of the hill next to the lighthouse.

He then produced a meal that he had cooked, complete with a bottle of wine, candles, balloons, a rose bush, and a thermos of tea for after dinner. WOW!!! I had made him a chocolate cake as a present so he brought that too for dessert.

We had the most amazing view - complete with dophins swimming by, and a shooting star after dark.

What a wonderful man I married!

(Men, Victor says there's no copyright on his idea...)

I baked bread!

On Tuesday, for the first time in my life I baked my own bread.

Thanks to Poppy for the great recipe (no bread-maker involved.)

When it came out of the oven I felt SO proud!

I"M BACK!!

It's exactly 4 months since I last posted on this blog.
My sincerest apologies to those who had hoped to keep up with my life this way.
I hope you enjoy today's postings...

Hat Head

Last week Victor and I joined Dad on his weekly bushwalk.

This time we went to Hat Head (about an hour north of PMQ).

It was a beautiful day, though too hot out of the breeze.

We saw a couple of kangaroos, a hammerhead shark (down below us in the water), an eagle, lizards, lots of butterflies...

Alice's birthday

Alice is 2!

We had a lovely party to celebrate...

with a great cake made my Annie...

which the whole family helped to cut...

and Alice (and all) enjoyed eating very much!

I'm back!

Yesterday Victor and I went up North Brother above Laurieton. It wasn't a very clear day, but still the views were spectacular.

We're making the most of being in this beautiful part of the world before moving to Chiang Mai in 6 weeks time. (Another beautiful part of the world.)