Here's yesterday's baby photo of the day:
It should be pretty obvious who Meg and Pete are.... and I'm reasonably confident that it is Bryce who's yawning on the left, and Ethan on the right. The girl on the right is not Gill, but her cousin Laura (though from this angle it could be either).
After the coldest start to October in 45 years, the properly warm weather has finally arrived this weekend (34 degrees today), so having hosted a bbq on Friday night, we enjoyed a chilled out Saturday in our backyard....
And then on Sunday went to Berry Island on the North Shore....
where there was a "Spring in to Jazz" picnic with some old dudes playing some old school stuff in the shade of some gum trees..... It sounds like fun and probably is; if you like that kind of jazz. Which I don't. Still, it was a relaxing way to spend a couple of hours on a Sunday afternoon....
.... before we headed to the Union Hotel for the rugby. Gill took this photo as evidence that I have at least five friends, but as I pointed out, it could be any "Mark".... ("guests" doesn't necessarily mean "friends" either).
Bizarrely, I found myself kind of supporting the French - possibly because I was with some Aussies (like they would support the ABs....), possibly as we were surrounded by raucous Kiwis draped in their national flag, or, perhaps more likely, the French were the underdogs and, in my view deserved to win the game but for a couple of pretty dodgy refereeing decisions (but of course the rules about rucking don't apply if you're in the New Zealand back row). Still, on balance it would have made a mockery of the tournament had France won, as Tonga could claim to be the best team in the world on the basis of having beaten the world champions in the group stages.
Coming soon will be a blog post on this evening's interesting and provocative Newington Ethics Centre Lecture on Bioethics, from Dr Leslie Cannold.
On a different tack entirely and for those interested in Australian politics, here is a fascinating and in depth profile of Bob Brown, the leader of the Greens: The Most ----------*Man in Australia
And then on Sunday went to Berry Island on the North Shore....
where there was a "Spring in to Jazz" picnic with some old dudes playing some old school stuff in the shade of some gum trees..... It sounds like fun and probably is; if you like that kind of jazz. Which I don't. Still, it was a relaxing way to spend a couple of hours on a Sunday afternoon....
.... before we headed to the Union Hotel for the rugby. Gill took this photo as evidence that I have at least five friends, but as I pointed out, it could be any "Mark".... ("guests" doesn't necessarily mean "friends" either).
Bizarrely, I found myself kind of supporting the French - possibly because I was with some Aussies (like they would support the ABs....), possibly as we were surrounded by raucous Kiwis draped in their national flag, or, perhaps more likely, the French were the underdogs and, in my view deserved to win the game but for a couple of pretty dodgy refereeing decisions (but of course the rules about rucking don't apply if you're in the New Zealand back row). Still, on balance it would have made a mockery of the tournament had France won, as Tonga could claim to be the best team in the world on the basis of having beaten the world champions in the group stages.
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Coming soon will be a blog post on this evening's interesting and provocative Newington Ethics Centre Lecture on Bioethics, from Dr Leslie Cannold.
On a different tack entirely and for those interested in Australian politics, here is a fascinating and in depth profile of Bob Brown, the leader of the Greens: The Most ----------*Man in Australia
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