Calm after the storm

After two days of torrential downpours the heavens clear and a beautiful blue sky is revealed beneath.

The weather has been wrecking havoc all weekend across the North Island. We managed to escape the flooding that happened in some parts but we didn't come out unscathed... Sunday night we arrived home after a lovely weekend away, to find our living room floor sodding wet!

Uh oh... Luckily nothing was really damaged and Mr B promptly lit the fire to dry the room out. What appears to have happened is the roof tiles must have shifted in the storm and the roof leaked through to the ceiling.

 

Will definitely need to get that looked at ASAP before the next bout of bad weather sets in...  

 

EDIT: Glancing at our blog I see that skyline photos are rather frequent. Well I'm sorry, but after living in an apartment with only a view of the library wall (which, in the library's defense, is a lovely shade of bluey-green), one just can't help it when you see such a marvellous sight! :)

Life lately, according to my Android

(1) Another incredible sunset from our porch. Can't get enough of these! (2) An experimental omelette breakfast pizza. (3) The most pretty shade of pink in our back yard. Any ideas what variety might be? (4) A lovely surprise to behold on my way to work. (5) Preparing for the cold weather. (6) The fence that I *ahem* we built. (7) Making koeksisters. (8) Our church service at Raglan. (9) A quick rush of adrenaline every so often keeps me going.

A thing of beauty

"The sun rises, and the sun goes down, and hastens to the place where it rises." (Ecclesiastes 1:5)

One of the many beautiful sunsets we are blessed to behold.

Ladies + Toddler's Weekend Out

The weekend before last, Mr B packed his camping gear and set off to the annual Rails Camp, down in Wellington. Meanwhile my lovely mother-in-law had a conference in Auckland to attend and invited me along for a Girl's weekend, acommpanied with my sister-in-law and her (almost) three-year-old. Here are a few photos from our adventures:

Snapdragon's braised short-rib on the bone with bourbon and prune glaze. Much smaller than it appears in the photo, but incredibly moreish.

... after 4 hours of shopping, who can blame him? :P

Photos taken at the Auckland Arts Festival at Aotea Square. The colourful flags were 'peace flags' which kids were invited to decorate and hang.

Great weather, fine company and fun memories to be had.