sewing clothes for their teddies.

Feasting including produce from the garden. Yum.

Jeremy's birthday pizza.

Jeremy cooking birthday pizza.

Playing volleyball.

Caoimhe and her friend Toroa looking on Timo's birthday cake (lemon cheesecake with fresh berries and cherry glaze).

More delicious pizza from the pizza oven. Lenny eating his own, he stayed until the very end, meanwhile the other kids were running around etc.


Making their own pizzas for Timo's birthday.



All set to go swimming (self dressed) but it was raining.

Delicious lunch.

A feast for 10.

Beautiful mussels.

Beautiful potatoes.

Pizza Oven No. 2

Superior to the first fantastic start of a pizza oven. This one cooked about 9 pizzas in the space of about 30 mins. Worked so well. Best pizza ever.

They made their own pizzas apart from Lennox who is still a bit little for that so T and C shared a piece. They ate the whole lot.

PIZZA! And most delicious it was too. Cooked in the fantastic new pizza oven.


Post volleyball.
Making a new roof.
New pizza oven. Yum yum yum yum yum. Pizza oven has since been modified for maximum cooking abilities.

Nice sunset to eat pizza with.

Painting ostrich eggs.

Searching for "shrimp documentary David Attenborough" later turned to "shrimp life cycles David Attenborough [big fan]" and it turned out he couldn't find much footage on shrimps at all.

Their 3 completed eggs.

New Year

New paintings.

New sandpit and creating new spaces outside to be in.

Newest and beautiful big savoy cabbage picked from the garden today (first successful savoy grown from seed - very exciting)...

Turned into this new recipe I tried from a River Cafe book. Yum.

Christmas day at Hawea Flat

And there was plenty more food too, including 5 different types of puddings. Sue and Sara were busy.

Lennox eating his birthday dinner.


Lennox eating chocolate cake, his defence mechanism ready for action accordingly.

Stina singing Happy Birthday in her language from Sweden.

Georgie.


Birthday bubbles.

I read this excellent speech:
http://moreintelligentlife.com/story/david-foster-wallace-in-his-own-words

Getting rid of old stuff in a dramatic and effective way.

Caoimhe gets down to the business of printing on fabric. She printed a human over the humans that already existed on her t-shirt (she didn't like the look of the pre-existing humans).

Caoimhe's painting above from this afternoon's session.

Caoimhe making a guacamole.

One of Jeremy's talents: making dishes like this outside.

It didn't matter that it started to rain.



Eating the goods straight from the pan.