My little Nephew visits

Alex my 2 year old nephew visited me in Invercargill for the first time.

As you can image we had interesting times. I think the neighbours were woken up.... the piano was a great play toy in a one bedroom flat.

He always wanted to see what you were doing. So, against usual custom of no sitting on the bench, he really enjoyed watching everyone work at the sink, even helped out with the dishes!! (might be a first and last).

Another Brother Bites the Dust

On 12-05-08 Robert and Sarah were married at Fortrose Public Hall at 1pm. The wedding was exceptionally wonderful. It started off with the brides coming slowly down the hall, then everyone stood as Sarah and John (her dad) came down the hall slowly. Robert came forward and took Sarah. The marriage celebrant prayed and spoke some lovely words, Dad and John then read 2 portions of scripture, then the Wedding Hymn was sung by everyone. The two parents were then asked to stand and were each asked whether they agree with the marriage.

After this Robert and Sarah read their vows and celebrant prounounced them husband and wife. Robert and Sarah then received the horseshoes. This was followed by a sung Wedding blessing, then a short prayer. The celebrant then awarded them a gift and they walked slowly out of the hall, followed by the bridesmaids on the arms of the grooms men, followed by mum on John's arm and Elsa on Dad's arm.

Everyone then talked for a while and then family photos were taken. After this the wedding party disappeared and everyone had a cup of tea then proceeded back into town for the Reception.

John was to drive Robert's car back into town only to find we couldn't get it open!!! AA was called but we managed to get it open but more complications followed.

The Reception went off very well. John brought a gift for Robert to give to Sarah back from Ireland as Sarah is researching a lot of her Welsh ansestory. Robert presented this to her. Speeches went off well and everyone enjoyed the evening.

I arrived home about 10.30.

A Tuesday Night to Remember!!

Without anyone knowing what was happening. Alan and Kaye arranged to pick up myself, Simon Bennet and head round to Rozy's where Carolyn and Sheri were waiting patiently. The evening started off with a taste of soup - well we had a choice of three different soups (pumpkin, Tomato and Broccali).

Once finished the soup, we piled into the BZZ van and headed down town to pick up the main course (Hell's pizza). As it was a beautiful evening....a dining spot was to be found at the half way point of our walking track at Sandy Point Domain. After a delicious meal of pizza, kumera chips and wedges we headed up the hill for a quick bit of exercise then down again - in the dark!!

Once finished here, we piled into the BZZ van again and headed out for the rest of our journey.... out to Otatara beach.... along the beach... seeing jumping rabbits. This rabbit was lying low then all of a sudden sprung up about 300 mls then back to lying down. We figured he was delerious on seaweed. Finding the inlet road to the run-off we clambered over the sandunes to do a little rabbit and possum shooting - in a van would you believe - yes it did happen.

After shooting 3 possums and a couple of rabbits we headed back to Diner on Vyner for a menu of desert (mini pavs, white chocolate muffins, cookie dough cheesecake and of course Deep South ICECREAM).