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  • friday

    i had the day off work today so andrew, katie, jane and i went to piha to see what the rain had done to the waterfall.  Answer: made it big!

    after a lunch in the piha cafe we went for a quick walk on the beach

    this afternoon katie and esther went in to town to watch some percussion orchestra or something like that

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  • thursday

    work for three hours then many hours of photoing a parade in the wet (but i was in the dry)

    jane, andrew and katie went to look at the parade and got a bit soaked

    andrew and i went to the krd first thursdays in the evening (photos below)

    esther had school

    photos coming sometime when i can think.  meanwhile you can see some of my images here.  bit weird as not all of them ended up uploading and i also sent another 40 to auckland tourism via another route so you can’t see those.  i may re-post here at some point though

    AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND - JUNE 28: Street life around Auckland July 6, 2017 in Auckland, New Zealand. (Photo by Dave Simpson)

    AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND - JUNE 28: Street life around Auckland July 6, 2017 in Auckland, New Zealand. (Photo by Dave Simpson)

    AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND - JUNE 28: Street life around Auckland July 6, 2017 in Auckland, New Zealand. (Photo by Dave Simpson)

    AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND - JUNE 28: Street life around Auckland July 6, 2017 in Auckland, New Zealand. (Photo by Dave Simpson)

    AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND - JUNE 28: Street life around Auckland July 6, 2017 in Auckland, New Zealand. (Photo by Dave Simpson)

    AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND - JUNE 28: Street life around Auckland July 6, 2017 in Auckland, New Zealand. (Photo by Dave Simpson)

    AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND - JUNE 28: Street life around Auckland July 6, 2017 in Auckland, New Zealand. (Photo by Dave Simpson)

    AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND - JUNE 28: Street life around Auckland July 6, 2017 in Auckland, New Zealand. (Photo by Dave Simpson)

    AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND - JUNE 28: Street life around Auckland July 6, 2017 in Auckland, New Zealand. (Photo by Dave Simpson)

    AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND - JUNE 28: Street life around Auckland July 6, 2017 in Auckland, New Zealand. (Photo by Dave Simpson)

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  • wednesday

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    busy day at work for me with lots of meetings. but i did stay awake so that’s good

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    esther went out for a meal with her friend this evening and is going out with jane to pick up our visitors from the airport later

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    we’ve not heard from kezia for a while

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    here’s some photos from my walk to work:

  • tuesday

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    hello

    sorry if you couldn’t get in to the blog yesterday. dodgy plugin which i’ve located and deactivated.

    i took the day off work yesterday (Tuesday) so jane and i could have a day together before visitor descend (literally) on wednesday evening

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    anyway, we dropped esther off first thing at school then drove on to takapuna where we parked up and walked/scrambled round the coast to devonport

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    the weather was amazing

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    when we eventually got to devonport we got a bus back to takapuna to collect the car. 

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    after that we zoomed home to get changed then were straight back out for lunch then a trip to the boutique cinema to see a film which wasn’t as good as we hoped

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    after the cinema i drove in to town to go to a getty images contributor meet up which was really useful and jane picked up esther from school

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    then i zoomed up to the Kings Arms Tavern to photo The Wedding Present for UnderTheRadar.  I finished editing at 1am and was up at 5am this morning for work!

  • monday

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    i was the first person in the office today arriving just after 7am and i was the last to leave (ignoring the cleaners) at 6.45pm.  busy but productive day

    kezia has been having a whale of a time today in Brisbane as you can see from her pictures

    jane has done meeeelions of house works and met up with a friend

    esther had school and then a band practice

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  • sunday

    church then a 60th birthday party where we got lost on the way but eventually found it (despite it being less than a mile from our house it was on the other side of the creek so a 20 minute drive)

    we’ve heard nothing from kezia today but i think she’s doing a concert

  • saturday

    i went in to town to help with a photo course then met jane and esther for lunch.  jane and i then went to the art gallery.  this evening jane and i went to a concert in a new zealand equivalent of a stately home. 

    kezia is having fun in brisbane.  esther did some shopping during the day while jane met debbie for a coffee

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  • friday

    work, school (esther, jane), chinese evening (esther), end of term (jane), brisbane fun (kezia – we assume!)

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  • thursday

    kezia went to brisbane, i worked from home, everyone else had school