Gosford Japanese gardens

Sunday 9 December

 

Beautiful morning

 

I packed up a picnic and we decided

to go to Gosford to visit the Japanese gardens.

 

Gosford/Edogawa commemorative gardens

 

 ducks and kois

 Koi pavilion and lotus pond

Dry stone garden or "Karesansui"

 

It is a very peaceful place to visit

 

Then we went to the Gosford regional gallery

to view a quilt exhibition

 

 

 

 

it is amazing that these hangings

are made of bits of material.



Chez Maurice et Linda

Tuesday 4 December

Kathy from weight watchers is turning 40 this week

 Kathy is in blue and our weight watcher speaker

Rita is on the right

Jenine and I

 

 entree of smoked salmon

 entree of coquille Saint Jacques

I had that. In France they serve it in the shell.

 entree goat cheese tartlet

 main: rack of lamb

 the vegetables

 Main: grilled fish

 

main: canard a l'orange

I had that

 

We had a nice but pricey evening.

Kathy was very happy.

The food and the company was enjoyable.



Walk and picnic in Manly

Sunday 2 December

 

Last night we went to a concert at St Patrick

in Manly.

But first we went to "Beaches"

where we had a pizza supreme

(with the prawns on 1 side)

and a goat cheese salad.

 

 

So today we have to exercise.......

 

But first we had to go buy a cooking book

at the restaurant "out of Africa"

(for Christopher Christmas present

The chef / writer is going to autograph it)

 

 We walk from Fairlight along the path

bordering the harbour

 To Shelly beach were we had a picnic

on top overlooking the beach.

When we walk back to the car we stopped

and watch a yacht race.



Cleaning the pergola

Sunday1 December

 

 The roof of our pergola opens and closes

 But even open it still get very dirty.

We are on the flight path of the sugar bats.

Claude and I cleaned it with Shane's electric water jet.

It did a very good job.



Lunch at Palm Beach

Friday 30 November

 

We went to Hornby to drop

the advent calendar for the kids

for tomorrow.

And pick up Shane's

water pressure cleaning tool.

 

Jo was not home but had left us

a note with directions to the

park were she was with the

children and her friends.

 

We went to see them....

 

AND I FORGOT TO TAKE SOME PHOTOS.

 

 

 We had lunch at the Boat Shed in Palm beach.

 A nice big garden salad and a glass of wine

to celebrate Claude first day of his holidays.

 After lunch we went for a long walk to the end of the beach

And we walk back on the ocean side



Ride to the Armory and picnic

Sunday 25 November

 

 

It is a very hot day.

 

The last few week we have been going

to concerts and restaurants.

So today a bike ride was planned.

 I had packed up a picnic which we ate

at the Armory under a shady tree

We spent 1 hour there resting,

but we had to ride back to the car parked

in the bi centennial park.

 

We had a lovely day, did not go fast,

just a relaxing day in the fresh (hot) air.

Amelia is dacing

I have not done a blog for sooooooooooo long

A lot has been happening.

 

Amelia had her first concert

But Claude and I did not go.

The ticket were too pricey

for the couple of minutes

she was on stage.

 

Here are few photos of Jo's 

Trying on the make up.
She has huge eye like her daddy.
Christopher used to call Shane
"googly eyes"
(Oh brother love)

Trying on the costume

here is Pebble

 

with her little friends

waiting in the wing to go on stage.

 

the 2 last photos were taken on stage

by a photographer.

I copied them with difficulty from

the website.

 

Mykaela dressed for her school play.

 

I went to see her but was too far away to take photos