Winter fog........and sun

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The major news this week is probably the weather, because other than that it has been a pretty average week. Monday was quite wet, Tuesday turned from wet to absolute down pour, with flash flooding in parts of Auckland. I think we had about a months' worth of rain in half an hour or so around lunchtime. We had some warming sun Wednesday afternoon, then major English style fog on Thursday (which closed the airport all day), and more again on Friday but the breeze cleared it by mid morning. Then the sun came out, and we have had two and a half days of cloudless blue sky, and wonderful warming sun.

Work has been much the same for Nicky, and a bit thin on the ground for me, but that has left me time to cook, iron, and battle with the weather to get washing dry.

Yesterday we enjoyed the sun at home, sewing, baking and laundrying (I think that's a proper word really). I will leave you to guess who did which. Today we took advantage of the winter sun by taking a picnic to Muriwai after Nicky go back from church. I wanted to see how far the cliff path went that we had been along with Becky, Tim and Netta in March (not all that far actually, but great views). Then we walked back to the beach and strolled for awhile before stopping in the warm sun to eat our lunch (lemon curd and smoked cheese butties). After a sufficient repose, we returned along to beach to have pots of tea in the sun at the Sand Dunz café. We played Global Trivial Pursuits when we got home, and made macaroni cheese for tea (possibly the ultimate comfort food?)

As you can see from the photos below, the sky was blue and the beach was very busy!





Take care,
Rick

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