Weekly Photo Challenge: Illumination

This ‘illuminating‘ craze has caught on down here now as well – it doesn’t really float my boat but this is a house just up the road from my parents’ when we went home for Christmas in 2009 – its main claim to fame is that my best friend when I was three lived here – his room was the end window above the garage…

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We also stumbled across Santa’s house too…

Gary Watling IS Santa 001

Weekly Photo Challenge: Resolved

I’m not really that big on New Years resolutions as resolving can and should happen any time it is necessary…but anyway…

…work less, play more…

DSCF6544…turn the ‘desert’ into green…

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…actually finish a modelling project…

…just once…

Weekly Photo Challenge: Surprise

DSCF6596Hmmmm… surprises…a couple of years ago, my parents gave us some garden centre vouchers for Christmas – they lasted as long as the Boxing Day sales and a novelty we picked up at the check-out at Palmers in Taupo was a rather small – may be 15cm high – fly trap…it took a while to settle in but since spring, it has just exploded in height. We’re not quite sure what we’ve down right with it but it seems to be working…

Our surprise this Christmas was a flower – who knew these things flowered…?

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It’s not too bad at catching bugs but if it starts to sing, it’s out of here…!