100 years!

Today would have been Russ’s mums 100th birthday and the letter from the Queen!

The morning started with George and Sue exploring Tahunanui beach!

Chilly and sunny – if these two words pop up in the same sentence we know it is winter.

Triple thermals and puffer vest temperatures ….

Such a beautiful beach and the holiday park we are staying at, Russ used to clean the loos at this place in his uni holidays. Maybe not such fond memories! Then we were off to the Marsden Valley cementry for morning tea with Mrs Carter – flowers, Louise cake and Raspberry slice! And of course coffee!

Graeme and I chopped and dug (Graeme mostly), I did the girls tidy up (trimmed the edges) and we had a lovely morning!

Here we all are! Chatting and reminiscing! Then it was off to visit the homesteads of our ancestors! As time goes by all looks smaller and not the same without our humans

A view from the hills – where the Carter’s had their retirement whare! Which they never got to!

After an afternoon of reminiscing Graeme dropped George and I at one of my clients and we walked home via the the Dump (op) shop….

George rocking his new drug dealer sunnies and holding my new handbag – maybe the backpack will take a back seat for a while!