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The Photo Gallery: Red
This week’s Photo Gallery theme on Tara Cain’s blog Sticky Fingers is Red. Friday 15 March was Red Nose Day and so far over an amazing £75 million has been raised in aid of transforming lives across the UK and Africa. Well done everyone who took part!
I’m a big fan of the colour Red. Here are some of my favourite photos taken this year.
Imogen playing in her Grandparent’s garden in New Zealand.
Imogen and cousin Amber with their red table and chairs.
Native Pohutukawa growing in my parent’s garden in New Zealand.
The Cable Car in Wellington City takes you up to the beautiful Botanical Garden.
The Photo Gallery: Bond
This week’s theme for The Photo Gallery is Bond. Not as in James Bond but as in the everlasting bond that is created between family, friends and pets.
I’ve been surprised at the amazingly strong bond created between Imogen and her cousin Baby Amber and with Molly my beloved rescue cat of 17 years.
The absolute beauty of these intense bonds is that they’ve developed in only four weeks since our arrival in New Zealand.
Imogen and Amber are the best of friends. They share toys (most of the time) and enjoy holding hands and running together, splashing in the paddling pool and most of all they both adore giving one another big hugs.
Imogen is so loving and gentle of Molly despite being a toddler and wanting to share her exuberant energy. Molly has an arthritic hip which makes her very slow to move and she likes to sleep a lot. Rather than running around the garden Imogen spends a lot of time talking to Molly and giving her plenty of strokes and many kisses.
My parents kindly took over the care of Molly the cat when I ventured from New Zealand to England in the summer of 2003. It was heart wrenching saying goodbye to Molly and I have been so fortunate to see her again, especially this time given she is such a ripe old age.
The Photo Gallery: Adventure
This week’s theme for The Photo Gallery on the blog Sticky Fingers is Adventure.
There’s so much you can get up to in New Zealand and as much as I’d love to be more adventurous whilst I’m here you won’t catch me bungy jumping any time soon.
It’s amazing to see Imogen blossom as a toddler since we’ve been in New Zealand. She’s running faster than ever, climbing higher in playgrounds, throwing even larger stones in the water, jumping over waves in the sea, intrepidly exploring rivers and walking through the forests of Middle-earth.
One of our biggest adventures so far has been at the Kaitoke Regional Park where we paddled close to several large eels, crossed a swing bridge over the river, took a refreshing dip and walked through the New Zealand bush.
