Just visiting & Farm Park


Just off here for a day...sisters house...oh-so awesome...



So its been pretty awesome here so far. 3 days obviously isn't long, but still, I wish I was rich enough to have an estate that looked like it fell out of some shmancy magazine. Grandma and Grandpa are staying, for a week too, and Grandpa had nicknamed me 'Fred from NZ' and actually does call me Fred every time we talk. Which is hilarious and fine all at the same time, cos he's a funny old english guy with vague opinions, and addresses people with first names (or with me, Fred) every sentence. It's the first time I've ever had a nickname apart from 'Lan' so sa-weeet! He also pays attention to my wineglass at dinner every night, which keeps being filled with fancy wine. Oh, I do so love it here. I'm already known as she-who-eats-all, so the food and cheese that comes my way is excellent english norms.

AND! I was internally cracking the hell up, as one night when there was a special old bottle of wine hanging round, the movie Sideways came up. JM I'm thinking of you obviously, if anyone reads this, tell JM there IS someone else out there that likes the movie, and I'm living with them again. I think I may have to watch it just cos they own it, and I missed out that time, in Daniell St.

 We went to this 'farm park' today, which is pretty much just goats, a couple donkeys and and alpacas, then 50 different kinds of owl. Pretty rad actually, you're allowed to touch a few of the owls which is kinda cool, and they were all so cuuute. Some of them did this creepy beak clicking thing when you hung round for too long which was creepy, but ah. So here's the pics from that...







Most higildy-pigildy bunch of Alpacas ever





wassup natalie?


So this chicken looked like it had pants on. Since when do chickens have feathery bell-bottom legs?



Creepy old man Owl



Oh Oh and and annnnd, it was This lil ladies birthday yesterday (mytime) so HAPPY BIRTHDAY KRISTY!!


Hope your dins was awesome, presents fantastic and your day even better than all of that combined ... and that pretty boy photo of Mash that Louise took haunts him forever! X

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Kristy said…
Thanks! Was a lovely day! Bring on birthday byo dinner tomorrow night too! I do like to stretch my birthday out! x
August 5, 2011 at 10:26 AM
marg said…
Hey Fred, hows it goin? Remember when I used to call that old cast iron fireplace in your bedroom, Fred? You were scared of it at night cause it looked like a spooky face. So I made it your friend called Fred. Sounds like you havin a fantabulous time, they sound like good family people. Great pics!
August 7, 2011 at 12:20 AM
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