Showing posts with label Easter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Easter. Show all posts
Sunday, April 25, 2010
BBQ Days
Some of our close friends decided that a quiet low key BBQ was in order for Easter Monday. So we divided up the duties and on the day headed to our local park (about 2 minutes from our house) to fire up the BBQ and enjoy drink and catch up chats, you guessed it, in the sunshine. Delightful.
Mark cooking the snags
Friends - Matt Emma and Scott
The Boys at the BBQ
The Food - Yum
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Easter Goody...googy Egg!
He is rather edible! This is my 10 month old nephew Eli and he was super excited about Easter!
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Easter in Pictures
The wonky Church spire of Chesterfield....it will straighten when a virgin gets married there apparently!
Us at Chatsworth House on Easter Sunday in the lovely gardens
The Lion in Chatsworth House, one was awake and one asleep...(this is the asleep one!)
Chatsworth House courtyard
The Easter Monday markets
Mark with his Grandparents at Muriels house where we all stayed
London on the Monday evening when we got back was just beautiful even at 6pm so we had a picnic on Parliament Hill and I took photos of all the kites while the sun set.
Friday, April 17, 2009
Once upon a time...in my childhood
There was an Easter Bunny who came along to provide the good little children of the world ADD inducing chocolate eggs and bunnies on the very day that the Christian (most of us!! - no political correctness on my site) world celebrates the re-birth of Jesus.
The children were very happy. Their parents would trawl through supermarkets to purchase said Easter treats, filled with other irrate parents and their ratty children tearing their hair out of choices between the Humpty Dumpty egg, Smartie egg or an Easter Egg train. The said oblivous children are generally in tow and not quite with the whole marketing ploy and the non-existance (whoops to those under 5 or those who were never told) of the Bunny dude himself.
Ah memories, the blissful time where you really had no idea that the Easter bunny was indeed your parents having spent hard earned cash on mountains of overpriced chocolate shapes (that in a block would cost less than a third of the price) and then spending several hours placing them in and around the garden for you to hunt for on Easter morning at about oh 5-6am...
Where has the wonderment gone, I can barely remember, though I certainly remember that I got more than my fair share and more after visiting various aunts, uncles and grandparents. This Easter, I had 2 cadbury creme eggs of my own purchase, about 4 hot cross buns (in February mind you) and even forgot it was easter to the point where we didn't even say HAPPY EASTER.....BUT....
To everyone out there....I have remembered Easter, its a joyful occassion of child grinning delight, of sparkly coloured tin foil covered eggs on the grass, sparkly eggs filling a wicker basket, school holidays, baby bunny rabbits, Easter bonnet parades and grinning chocolate covered faces.
Happy Easter (belated) everyone!!!
The children were very happy. Their parents would trawl through supermarkets to purchase said Easter treats, filled with other irrate parents and their ratty children tearing their hair out of choices between the Humpty Dumpty egg, Smartie egg or an Easter Egg train. The said oblivous children are generally in tow and not quite with the whole marketing ploy and the non-existance (whoops to those under 5 or those who were never told) of the Bunny dude himself.
Ah memories, the blissful time where you really had no idea that the Easter bunny was indeed your parents having spent hard earned cash on mountains of overpriced chocolate shapes (that in a block would cost less than a third of the price) and then spending several hours placing them in and around the garden for you to hunt for on Easter morning at about oh 5-6am...
Where has the wonderment gone, I can barely remember, though I certainly remember that I got more than my fair share and more after visiting various aunts, uncles and grandparents. This Easter, I had 2 cadbury creme eggs of my own purchase, about 4 hot cross buns (in February mind you) and even forgot it was easter to the point where we didn't even say HAPPY EASTER.....BUT....
To everyone out there....I have remembered Easter, its a joyful occassion of child grinning delight, of sparkly coloured tin foil covered eggs on the grass, sparkly eggs filling a wicker basket, school holidays, baby bunny rabbits, Easter bonnet parades and grinning chocolate covered faces.
Happy Easter (belated) everyone!!!
Saturday, April 07, 2007
Primrose Hill
Mark and I were a bit bored today so we wandered down in the sunshine to Primrose Hill for lunch at a nearby pub called The Princess of Wales. The pub was a good old fashioned authentic non-chain pub, with an Irish feel, that had big windows to let all the light in. Most important in the winter. Though we were lucky enough to get to sit out the front in the sunshine, to enjoy our fish and chips and Pimms, which is the best place to be at any pub on a warm sunny day.
We then walked for a bit and back around to go up Primrose Hill. Mark had not been up there to see the view before so I made him not look until we got right to the top. Lots of people were out on the hill, lazying about, playing ball games, walking dogs and enjoying themselves. It was a brilliant clear day so you could see right across London and beyond. I had no idea there was so much construction and I counted at least 51 construction cranes, probably about 50 more than back in Adelaide. Especially now the new Santos building is done!
Being its Easter there was a big group of people all dressed up and involved in an Easter egg decorating competition, it was quite funny and I took a few pictures of that too.
Since it was so nice we kept walking all the way back around to Adelaide road, behind Primrose Hill and back up Primrose Hill road to Belsize Park. Haverstock Hill road, up that way and running right up to Hampstead, is like our own West End lane, with lots of restaurants and pubs. I say that because today Mark said to me, whilst walking up a bustling West End Lane, "Why would you want to move away from this?". Well precisely because there are other places just as cool to go and live in, that won't cost us any, or at least much more. We won't move till the summer though, even though that will be here soon enough.
We then walked for a bit and back around to go up Primrose Hill. Mark had not been up there to see the view before so I made him not look until we got right to the top. Lots of people were out on the hill, lazying about, playing ball games, walking dogs and enjoying themselves. It was a brilliant clear day so you could see right across London and beyond. I had no idea there was so much construction and I counted at least 51 construction cranes, probably about 50 more than back in Adelaide. Especially now the new Santos building is done!
Being its Easter there was a big group of people all dressed up and involved in an Easter egg decorating competition, it was quite funny and I took a few pictures of that too.
Since it was so nice we kept walking all the way back around to Adelaide road, behind Primrose Hill and back up Primrose Hill road to Belsize Park. Haverstock Hill road, up that way and running right up to Hampstead, is like our own West End lane, with lots of restaurants and pubs. I say that because today Mark said to me, whilst walking up a bustling West End Lane, "Why would you want to move away from this?". Well precisely because there are other places just as cool to go and live in, that won't cost us any, or at least much more. We won't move till the summer though, even though that will be here soon enough.
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