Saturday, January 2, 2016

Change of plans

Saturday 10 October

I packed a picnic and we were on our way to the 
Royal National Park to do a bush walk when
my phone rang:
"Grand ma I haven't see you for a long time...
Do you want to come and help dad with the deck?"
We could hear Jo and Shane in the background laughing.
The sore point is that Shane ring only when he want something:
like, Claude help or us babysitting. He never ring just to invite us.

So we went, we couldn't let our grand daughter down
and we are glad we went as we spent a lovely day.


Claude and Shane building the cabana


Amelia making a picture by burning the wood 
with a magnifying glass.(Mykaela showed her how to do it)


Shane is growing a bear



Jo is washing the wall of the house ready to paint it.
While it dry she fill up a pool bean bag.



That the way to do it.
I always make a mess as I always do it by myself.




meanwhile Claude and Shane are still working.


the children are trying out the seat.





and Jo is changing the colour of the house.




I spent the afternoon supervising the children
play with the bean bag.
I had a bit of trouble making Amelia and Joshua
that it was dangerous to dive under it.


The back wall of the house look great.
And the platform on the deck look great too
and I forgot to take photos of them finished.

Jo invite us to stay for a BBQ. End of a perfect day.

Manly Jazz Festival

Sunday 4 October 2015

Manly Jazz Festival



It was a very hot day we kept on moving our chair
to get a bit of shade





The ladies of The  Boswell Project get into the groove.


We walked to the ferry and had a nice cold beer
at the German restaurant/ bar

Friday, January 1, 2016

Week end in the Hunter Valley

Thursday 1 October

We left around 10.30 and stopped for lunch at Wiserman ferry


We arrived around 3.30 pm at the Hunter Valley Country Resort





front door and back door





We went on  a guided experience tour



poor Claude, all empty glasses



We went across the road to the
cheese factory. We taste some and bought some.






one day we went and visited the Hunter Valley gardens










On Saturday 3 October after breakfast
we went for our last walk in the countryside
and drove to Wollombi for coffee. 
I bought some Jams and lemon butter at 
a street stand.


We took the Old North Road to St Alban for lunch.