Nothing to say and just a single picture to show

My ankle is letting me know it's there... It's sore but only when I walk on it (kinda gives the hints to me not to be upright)... Although I did manage to turn it rather quickly when wandering about the house and causeda loud 'Pop" to come from the ankle ..... No damage though I think ....
Emerging frond of a tree fern

It's sooo Hot !!!! Another 30C 86F day in the making and the humidity is now up as well .... the north of the island have just experienced torrential rain and floods ... I hope it's wandered off to sea now .....

My McDinzie hard at work with her stylish new camera.....

And now the cicadas have started to emerge.. They won't be as plentyful as other years but there are enough to be noisy around the place..... One of the disadvantages of living beside the native forrest is that we get heaps of cicadas ...greens and browns, big and small... And the forrest creates a sound shell for them so the noise is amplified even more ..... Last year when watering I sprayed the trees around the front garden .. .For a few seconds only there was a pleasant silence... until they resettled and started their rapid clicking again ......

The upper reaches of the Hutt river.. Big trout reside but are hard to catch

Another pleasant surprise today when the man we hired to sort out the overgrown lawns arrived ... In less than an hour with the right tools and they are looking pretty damned good again .... Edges to the borders all trimmed properly, grass picked up ...Its looking good again ... Well by our standards anayway :O) AND he closed the gates after him as well .... He can come back :O)

A native Rata tree.. Covers itself in orange/red flowers once a year

Where does the time go in the day??? I've sat at the computer all morning (with my foot up and resting) doing some work work (I can dial in and acess everything from home.) And also doing some research on my ancestors in Scotland ... Some frustration as to getting certain census entries but otherwise have found a few things of interest especially around where they lived ... All my family on my Dads side were country folk ...Farm workers or Gameskeepers and the like ....

Swing bridge at kaitoki. From where you can see the trout....Sometimes

Now I have a heap of people I can take some interesting stats .. Like the oldest any of my family lived was 88 years Female and 87 years male. But the average age is 67 for both male and female .. Of course that would include infants who died within 1 or 2 years of birth...

The maximum number of marriages to any individual is 3 (my grandfather.. 2 wives died in child birth) but the average for the whole family is only 1. The average age being 22 for getting married the youngest being 16 (Female...)

Mature tree fern

I'd love to make the trip back home to see these places now ..I've been to Norfolk ages back but only managed a day in Scotland ...Would be good to see where they all lived...

Stream at Mt Bruce reserve full of eels

Pictures of summer and Sprained ankle..

Wednesday, February 07, 2007

This get fit lark is bad for your health !!! It all started with a bruised damaged foot.. In the bone of the ball of the foot ... hurt hurt hurt wherever I walked ... then that subsides and I get cramp again ... in my ribs of all places ...So damned painful ....

Then this morning in the gloaming McD and I were walking the dogs along the path by the river and went past a spot where workmen have been sinking some posts into the earth .. Not sure why they want them there but anyway ... The earth and dug up river pebbles were still over the path and I managed to step on a pebble unknowingly and over on my ankle I went .....
Not happy ...... So now I'm stuck here with my foot bandaged and elevated and the day is sunny and the temperature is already in the mid 20s C ...Mid 70s F.... Grumble grumble grumble ................

Forgotten Graves.
Friday, January 19, 2007

I was trolling through my photos trying to find a suitable pictire for the picture Theme week on the Photo Challenge Open Diary site and came across these ....... They are pictures I took from an old Wellington grave yard .... Many were moved from their original site to make way for the motorway that feeds the city now .... These grave now have a semi peaceful setting albeit still beside the motorway .....
Life was hard in the 1800s & early 1900s ... many of these graves have young children in them.. dying of Flu or other such ailments ..... Many adults died way before their time . But there were some who survived well into old age as well .... Real survivors of the times ....
Life is a lottery eh ....

This shows the motorway and the CBD building opposite ... The graves also face out to the city ...... Co-incidently the office block to the far left of the picture is the building I work in .... But my desk is on the other side looking at our parliament buildings and out across the harbour.