Tesselaar Tulip Festival

You've gotta love it when something that you'd thought would be a glorified roadside tulip shop, actually turns out to be the 60th anniversary of the most beautiful horticultural gem, with entertainment, scuplture, nosh... and sunshine, definitely helped that there was sunshine!

Our lovely friend Miss B was in town so I strongly encouraged the troops to drive 50 mins to what I thought would be a little field of tulips - and it was worth every rendition of Katy Perry's Roar we could muster!  Welcome to mini-Amsterdam x

Mamma A x

Father's Day 2013

The perfect father's day... a drive to the country, a pub lunch then a little picnic on the beach for tea!

Mamma A x

Book Parade!

Here are the girls dressed and preened for their first Brighton Beach Book Parade!

Meet Mildred Hubble (The Worst Witch)

And Pippi Longstocking, of course!

**heart**

Mamma A x

Archieeee

We miss this little Sydney-sider and his ma & pa - was great to have them visit Melbs... although the cold wind did nothing to help us encourage them to move here!

 It was windy, honestly!

 This was an amazing installation at NGV to celebrate Monet's exhibition.  Loads of floating bowls in a circular pool with a slightest jet stream, allowing them to just float and clink together.  Utterly lovely.

 Barbie, Pips and Arch, the other side of NGV entrance.

Mamma A x

Coastal Winter

It seems no matter where I am in the world, I love August!  I even love writing the word, August!

In the Northern hem, August brings looooong evenings which are like Cornflakes - one forgets how good they are!

In the Southern Hem, it sees winter - and wintertime next to the coast is the very best kind of season.

Photo a Day - August

Here's the round up of my photo-a-day for August...

Mamma A x

Oh-so-behind on my blogging!

Here are the remaining Photos A Day from July!  In no particular order...

Mamma A

Photo A Day 2-10 July

Here we go!  Round up of July 1-10... with a few missing inbetween!...

"1 happiness is...  swimming in the bubbles"


"2 shoes"


"3 cold ... My feet in Uggs poking out of blankie!"

"4 red white or blue"

"6 fave smell - my single fave smell for so many years."

"7 where are you ... At the tennis wall, of course"

"8 path"

"9 3 things -oh no, now I have to eat them ;)"

"9 3 things"

"10 smooth ... Our first skatepark adventure! By its very nature it is smooth as, yet looks so rough"

Mamma A