Birthdays and weddings

This week has been an auspicious week of quiet celebration as it contained both my birthday and our wedding anniversary. Spent the morning with my Knitterati friends down at Mangere Arts Centre looking at an exhibition of  "objects"  using different materials to what we have been tradionallly used to with scarcely a precious stone to be seen  and not even normal art materials but plastic, bottle tops, even soft toys in the person of Basil Brush, dressed in Louis Vuitton cloth. 
In the afternooon good friends Frances and Pamela joined the 3 of us here at home for Kaffee and Kuchen, the Kuchen being a hazelnut cake as usual.  Eli made cupcakes too which went down well .
We followed all that with a glass of wine, dip and chips over a celebratory game of scrabble before repairing to the foodhall for a meal.

Hobbled through the park  (like "the cat from Norway" I had got stuck in the doorway - of the bus that morning and was feeling a bit sore) and Pam and I struck up a conversation with a little girl who was skillfully walking along along some narrow concrete edging which Pamela immediately recognized as a Montessori skill.  The little girl was indeed a Montessori child, very self-assured and we heard her comment to her father afterwards that she had been talking to "some nice old ladies" which really put the icing on the proverbial birthday cake for sure.

Today the 28th of October is our 34th wedding anniversary and we celebrated that quietly a deux .  Went to a lovely beachfront cafe on Takapuna Beach and enjoyed a delicious lunch of egg benedict with crispy bacon in my case and copious slices of salmon in Dieter's.

Outside St Patrick's Cathedral 25 October 1978.



My 8th birthday party.  I am second from left.



My Parents' wedding day 6 November 1942.