Its been 18 days (according to WordPress) since the last post.  There’s been stuff happening, but wrestling with the blog hasn’t been high on the list of priorities.  Winter has truly arrived; we’ve had some southerly gales, but also some lovely days, and most Sundays we’ve gone for a long walk around the general ‘burb, up to the streets on the ridge above us, taking in the views, and calling into either Seatoun (for a coffee) or Strathmore (yummy things for lunch from the Gypsy Kitchen deli).

I’ve been sewing, John’s been reading and chilling, and there’s been the odd trip to the movies – including to the local Italian film festival (to see Bertolucci’s classic movie The Conformist and The Mafia Kills only in Summer, an interesting mix of 1970s and 80s italian politics and a coming of age movie) and to see the new NZ movie, Hunt for the Wilderpeople.  Also relived my 1980s youth by seeing the Talking Heads concert movie, Stop Making Sense.

I’m off to the US on Saturday to see Caroline for a couple of weeks, so John will be home alone.

Following are some pics from the last few days – from our walk along the ridge on Sunday morning, and a drive around the south coast scouting locations for an attempt at photographing star trails.  We ended the latter with a drink at the Spruce Goose at Lyall Bay (the Wellingtonians among you know where that is) watching crazy kiwi surfers in very thick wetsuits!