A long - and full - weekend

Happy Birthday Welli - and thanks for the extra day's holiday.

This weekend we will be honouring our favourite city with a dinner party (tonight), brunch (Saturday morning), a 50th birthday party (tomorrow night) and a BBQ for friends at ours on Sunday night.
Oh and a friend from school days who's flying over from Oz for the 50th is also staying with us on Saturday night.

In between, I need to find some time to finish a couple of stories and start another one.

I'm going to try my hardest to stick to the dry January thing, but whether it's with a wine or a juice, I will be sure to toast the coolest little capital in the world this weekend.

  

(Pic credit: www.wellingtonnz.com)

Painting, gardening and spending our weekends enslaved to the beach house

Another weekend of trying to knock the 50 shades of peach bach into the kind of cool beach houses I write about for a raft of interior magazines. Fortunately, the god of long weekends smiled upon us, giving us another day in which to do so (thank you Welli Anniversary Day).

There was also an assault on the jungle (sorry, garden) that hasn't been touched for three years (my compost pile groweth) and I also found time to write two stories due in this week (go me).

A lovely long weekend and, I swear, it gets harder to leave the bach each time. Currently trying to hatch a plan to spend more time up there...

Today's visuals are of the Animator hard at work painting; apologies for the lack of pics but we are so busy working our butts off we usually forget to capture the moment.