And one more walk for the year

Sunday 30 December

 

 

Woke up to the sound of rain.

 

Had breakfast and did some crosswords.

 

And then we decide on a walk.

so I made the picnic and got ready.

 

 

 We walked from the Narrabeen Lake sailing club

all along the lake

to the look out overlooking the beach

the camping groung on the right

 



 

 Claude getting our picnic out

 

 

 After lunch and a rest we walk down to the

pools

 

 

By then the sun was quite hot and we were

happy to sit with the ocean breeze



Gardening

Saturday 29 December

 

 

Yesterday we went to 3 different nurseries

to look for mulch.

We did not found what we were looking for.

 

But in a corner I saw "all plants 50cents"

 

So I went to investigate ( they were a sorry lot)

We chose 4 of the best.

They are hardy plant which a bit of watering

brought them back to life.

 

 

 One of my neighbour gave me this plant.

It has no roots just grow hook over a branch.

 Claude digging holes

me removing the dead leaves and dead flowers.

 Oh there is something hard down there!!!!

 It turned out to be the concrete base

of the old letter box

 We bought 2 plants with flowers, one orange

and one stripy and 2 plants without flowers

so they are our mysteries.

Claude braking down the piece of concrete

to be able to lift it into the wheelbarrow.



New parrots

Christmas Eve

 

We had a lovely visit of a lovely orange and green parrot

Friday 28 December

 

I was having a coffee on my deck, when 2 huge parrots

flew at me. By the time I call for my camera another one

had come but 2 flew in the trees when they saw Claude.

This one was ready to go to.

 

 

a bit hard to see but there is 3 parrots in this photo



long walk

Thursday 27 December

 

I had a very busy morning.

first I went for my walk at

7.30am.

Then did the weekly shopping

with all the bargain lookers.

It was mayhem's. I hate sales.

 

 

 Claude wanted to go for a walk in the fresh air.

We walk from Long Reef to the end of DY beach.

The beach was littered with algae

I was there too

I WAS THERE TOO

 

 

My friend Rosina just forwards me some

photos where I am present in them.

 

 

Wednesday 19 December

 

Aqua Christmas lunch

 

 

 Martha, Tricia (standing), Jill, Me, Anne

Rhian, Pamela, Marie, Jenny, Sandra, Martha, Tricia,

a bit of Jill, me, and Anne.

 

Thursday 20 December

 

Mall Walkers Christmas breakfast

 

 

Gail and I



Boxing day

Wednesday 26 December

 

 

Sydney to Hobart yachts race

 

 

 

 One o'clock, we heard the starting gun.

And suddenly tearing down, so fast came

the first maxi Wild oats

 the rest soon followed

 we had a good view

 huge crowd every where on the vantages points

and came the smaller yachts



NOEL 2012

NOEL 2012

 

 

Tuesday 25 December

 

 

Christmas at Jo and Shane place

 

 

 Tony and Paul (Jo's dad)

 

 Claude, Shane Jo, Ada watching Amelia

talking on the phone to Mykaela.

 

Ada and Amelia

 (Ada is Amelia great grand mother)

 Jo is drinking a bottle of Moet all by herself!!!!!

 

 Amelia is showing her tools in the tool box with the butterflies

 

Santa Ada

 

 More presents

Amelia got a couple of dresses and a nice cardigan

 trying on the one dress

 yes it swirls

 Aline opening her present

 

 Tony and Ada

 and Jo pushing in

 

 Aline

 my bonbon

a pensive Joshua eating his helicopter

 

We had a lovely day.

I can't believed that yesterday we had to put on

the air condition and today we (some of us) are wearing

jumpers and it has been raining all day too.

 

Oh bothers....

I took the teddies sleighs...

and we forgot to eat them again.

I did not take the gingerbread house as I did

not think that it would travel very well.

 

Merry Christmas everybody.

 

Time to eat all the left over....starting tomorrow.



Christmas Eve

Monday 24 December

 

 We are 6 adults and 3 children for diner.

We had to re arrange the furniture.

We moved the sitting arrangement from in

front of the fireplace and move it to the dining room spot.

 all my presents under the tree

 put the table with the extension at an angle

in front of the fireplace

Family Andre stockings

 a nice red parrot came to visit us and eat our bananas

 

 Claude, me, Joshua, Tony

Sarah, Amelia and Shane

 

Tony is Jo's brother and Sarah is his wife

 

 Amelia, Shane, Jo and Claude

 

 Joshua

 

and Aline, Tony and Sarah's daughter

 

I cooked a (Shane called it)"deconstructed " beef wellington.

 

I was too afraid to do a beef Wellington for so many people

because of the beef shrinkage inside the puff pastry.

 

So I cooked my fillet mignon (in butter)

Sliced it and put a slice on a french toast spread with pate.

and covered it with champignons sliced and cooked in butter too.

bad for our cholesterol...

 opening the presents

 hair band and scrunchies

 tools set, real tools

 Joshua opening his road mat

 

With all the going on we forgot to eat the

gingerbread house and the teddies sleighs.

I will have to take them tomorrow when we

go to their place for Christmas.