The (A)musings of a Lyric Soprano

Saturday, 17 May 2014

Vignettes

A few pictures from the last week or two.

Wee dude now has glasses for distance, which is definitely helping at school.

He discovered the joys of sewing (didn't get that from me!) and has made various things including a cushion for Pedro.

Mothers' Day he presented me with this tissue flower he made at school, complete with Cookies n Cream Hershey's chocolate in the middle. Said chocolate has long since been devoured.

Apart from that, not much to report as we hunker down inside with the cooler temperatures.

Saturday, 19 April 2014

I've moved!

I've moved by blog over to here - come and visit :)

I've moved!

I've moved by blog over to here - come and visit :)

Time flies when you're having fun. Or getting older. Whatever.

Having been gently but firmly taken to task for the yawning silence on this blog, I will try to remedy it as best I can.

The first term of school is over for Tyler. He is in Year 5 and is doing very well according to his teacher at our recent parent-teacher interview. He is also still progressing nicely with his swimming and will start in the main pool next swim term.

He continues to grow like a weed and is vastly amused that he now fits my shoes (no, you will not be seeing photos of him in my high heels) and is hanging out for the day when he is taller than me. Which I don't think will take much longer as he is about up to my chin.

We acquired a bunny which Tyler named Mr Nibbles.

Chris has bought a road bike (Honda Fireblade CBR900) as a project for winter. I'm still singing away - currently in the throes of the annual Easter sing-athon - and blogging over at (A)musings of a Lyric Soprano.

One of my fellow 3GW (Three Good Women) got married and we (the remaining two GW's) sang a duet at her wedding. You can read about how I came up with just the right piece of music here

And so to some photos and video.

Mr Cool Dude

Motorbike Exhibition at the Otago Museum

Mr Nibbles

3GW at the wedding - the bride wore blue!

A partial recording of the duet - sorry about the sound quality.

Thursday, 26 December 2013

What do you mean - it's nearly 2014?!

Well how embarrassing - no blogging since early October. And here we are post-Christmas Day and rapidly approaching 2014.

Since then I've had a '0' birthday, Tyler has finished Year 4 with a very good school report and we've just had a lovely Christmas.

So here's a few photos to help recap the last few months:

Pedro went from this -

To this -

Tyler dressed as Count Dracula for Halloween

I had my '0' birthday

Chris got us a new toy

And Santa visited

So a good ending to the year - although apparently we are doing a repeat of the Nevis trip tomorrow with some friends, one of whom is a rally driver. At least we have a 4-wheel drive this time. I think that helps...!

Wednesday, 9 October 2013

♫♪ ...when I'm 64 ♪♫

Me, giving Tyler a big hug after coming from work: Do you still love me?

Tyler: Of course, why wouldn't I?

Me, teasingly: Oh I thought you might have forgotten me.

Tyler: Of course not, I'm still young.

Me: What difference does that make?

Tyler: Well when I'm older and you're old and crinkly, I might love you just a wee, wee bit less.

Me: !!!!

In other news, I won some bling at the annual Vocal Competitions recently (I'll blog about it soon over at (A)musings of a Lyric Soprano)

Last weekend I took Tyler and Anton to Riverton for a bit of crab-hunting and ice-cream-devouring.

Sunday, 22 September 2013

Happy Holiday

A regular reader (Hi Rosina!) has gently pointed out that I have been very remiss in not posting photos here for some time. So without further ado, here is a traverse through our Gold Coast holiday.

At Dunedin airport