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The ups and downs
Day 52 February 21st 2016
The day started with bathing alternately in the hot water stream at Spa Park and the cold water of the river. Great for our tired muscles. But today’s photo is at one of our regular haunts in the Tron. Lake Rotoroa is home to plenty of very well fed ducks! I spotted these as Nigel and I walked twice round the lake. Our boys have outgrown taking bread to ducks but there is no shortage of donors on a sunny Sunday afternoon. The funniest thing happened a couple of minutes after this shot when one duck snatched a whole piece of bread and broke away from the group waddling rapidly with two more ducks in hot pursuit quacking loudly!
Day 51 February 20th 2016
The Great Lake Relay is an annual event in Taupo in which teams of between 10 and 18 people run 155 km around Lake Taupo. This is the third time I have been part of a team. Each time there are some core people so there is some familiarity but it is the different faces that make each iteration so unique and enjoyable. Here is this year’s team about to set off at 2am.
Whereas in previous years we have made it round in well under the allocated 16hrs, this year we were sailing close. However, everyone pulled together and gave of their best. It was a real team effort and the final few minutes certainly got the adrenalin flowing. Ten exhausted but elated team members with a great sense of achievement so I have cheated and also included the photo at the end of the race.
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Day 50 February 19th 2016
I should be asleep now but it’s too early for me! In Taupo for the Great Lake Relay which starts at 2am. Every year the race pack includes a cuddly toy so here is the team mascot for this year stocking up on goodies. She was christened “Juanita (with a ‘W’)” because our team name was the “Dynamic Waikato Dio Wannabees” so we thought of names to match DWDW – Dolores, Winnifred, Dorothy and then Jo said “Wuanita” – with a ‘W’!! It stuck! So here is “Wuanita with a W”
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Day 49 February 18th 2016
A quiet day and then a hot, steamy walk at Pukemokemoke hill training. Amazing rainbows on the way home.
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Day 48 February 17th 2016
A night out in the Tron with my buddies. Such fun. A timed group selfie to toast the evening.
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Day 47 February 16th 2016
An interesting day with Microsoft in Auckland learning about O365. As always the Sky Tower begs a photo standing tall through the industrial landscape.
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Day 46 February 15th 2016
I’m not broody at all. Just got grandma envy. This is my friend’s very beautiful granddaughter. So blessed to meet her this evening.
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Day 43 February 12th 2016
Not much to choose from today – a day spent at the computer working. But as I sit in my office with the sliding doors open I am serenaded by the chatter of birds and cicadas. I am not very good at the whole standing every twenty minutes and moving around especially when I am engrossed in a job. I tend to want to just get it done. However, when the heat is sweltering and I realise I have been hunched over for a while and I am distracted by a new bird call, I get up to have a look. Two little wax eyes flit around in the tree. Unfortunately too quick to snap them but as I stand under the tree something flashes past my face and lands on the tree in front of me. Beautiful
Day 35 February 4th 2016
A long day at the computer today and I had a little workmate!
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