I love Fridays ... and so does Julia!

What a magnificent sunrise we saw this morning - red and gold and orange painted across my sky ... the view from Achilles Point was stupendous. I often wish that every sunrise could be quite as magnificent but then it would become mundane and ordinary, and take away from the breath-taking beauty of these few exceptional ones.

There was a cruise ship leaving the harbour and I can only imagine the vista they must have had from the ship as they headed away from Auckland .... what I could see from my vantage point was awe-inspiring .... theirs must have been even more so.

It’s Friday and Julia’s weekend starts today. She loves Fridays and so do I ... I get to ramble LONGER with my OTHER favourite hound and his human. We get to share the wet grass ... the rugby ball ... the secret pathways needing to be explored! 

Indy the Explorer lived up to his name ... we found a secret and unexplored path and stairs leading down to who knows where - probably the beach!  We followed it down quite a way but weren’t too sure where it was going to take us and how much steeper it would get ... more exploration will take place on another day.

Carol’s always waiting by the time the ‘Chocolat Express’ - and co. today .... hits her house.  She knows better than to text and tell me she doesn’t feel up to a ramble ... the hound and I would probably ignore the text. Not rambling down the hill with us is no longer an option - disability or extremely inclement weather are the only escape clauses ... and our weather has been anything BUT inclement this week!

We had an unexpected surprise when we ordered our caffeine fix this morning .... someone, a “secret admirer” according to the girls at the Co-op,  had already paid for our coffee! We’ve been racking our brains trying to work out who it is but haven’t come up with an answer .... to whoever it was though, we offer our thanks ... a random act of kindness that touched our

hearts ... and satisfied our addiction!


Julia and I are participating in another market on Sunday ... a new one for us,  the Devonport Craft Market ... it’s in Devonport, who would have guessed ... and involves a “trek” across the Harbour Bridge! LOVE that word and I love “trekking” across the Harbour Bridge!  It’s those Nippon clip-ons ... they really do it for me!

I’m looking forward to it. It’s a market I’ve been wanting to participate in for a while but they haven’t had space as it’s quite popular with stall holders. They didn’t have space this month either but we, Julia and I that is, decided to bite the bullet and have an outside stall ... for some reason there always seems to be space outside. It’s a good job we purchased a gazebo

for the Mission Bay Market in January - it can start earning it’s keep!


I’m sitting here, 6.50 in my evening, watching the sun starting to drop over my city ... there’s a bit of a haze around right now ... no rain ... but it’s definitely hazy. This time next week the sun will be setting so much earlier. Whilst I know I’m going to enjoy it being lighter when I head out on my rambles, I also know I’m going to miss these lovely light evenings.

“A smile is the light in the window of your face which tells the world that your heart is at home.” - anon.

Indy bought some toys round for Chocolat ... they were having a great time trying to tear them apart!