FIRST DAY OF THE NEW YEAR

Open up the shutters and greet the new day,




the first day of 2014.

Set the table and make preparations.

All is ready.

Call the guests to the table

and celebrate friendship and the New Year by eating brunch together.

Here's hoping the year ahead provides us with lots of great times with friends and family.


Happy New Year once again.....

Now,..... any New Year's Resolutions ????

No 1:  Do more of the above !!

Cheers.

ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST

Well, there's another year flown by sooo quickly.

It's 6:45pm here in Brissy.
It's been a warmish day but nothing like the 36+C  heat of yesterday.

This is the view out toward the south- west over our neighbour's roof.


The sun is setting for the last time in 2013.



Wishing you all a wonderful  2014.

Happy New Year !

DONE AND DUSTED

Well, that's Christmas done for another year.

Many thanks for all your good wishes.
I've been without a computer for almost a week so I'm tripping round the blogs to see how you are all doing.
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Despite the leadup being very hot and uncomfortable Christmas Day was pleasantly warm with a nice breeze.
We spent a fairly quiet day with Mum and Dad and my brother and his partner -eight of us in all.
The oldies made it through to 2 o'clock and then went off home for a snooze.
(I have to confess to a snooze myself - in airconditioned comfort - very relaxed !)

We put out all the food again about 7 o'clock and managed to polish off another lot before staggering home to our apartment on the beachfront.


Boxing Day

Ah , the day when you are allowed to sit around and do nothing if that's what you want to do.

Later in the day we strolled along the beach to a delightful cafe






where we managed to consume still more food while looking out on this view.



The beach was almost deserted.

 

 A lovely spot to unwind and just   b r e a t h e . . .
 

Cheers.

 

CHRISTMAS WISHES

Tomorrow - Sunday - I'm off to Hervey Bay where we will spend Christmas with my brother and Mum and Dad.

The drive usually takes for four and a half hour so here's hoping the traffic won't be too bad with families travelling to the beach for Christmas turning it into a marathon.

 

Wishing all my wonderful blogging buddies all over the world

 

a wonderful Christmas spent with the people you love

 

and a safe, healthy and prosperous New Year.

 

 

Cheers....

 

from Helsie

 ( and Tony !)

SUMMER BREAKFAST

Kiwifruit, red pawpaw and mango



YUM !

SUMMER IN THE CITY

When the end of the week rolls around

and the weather is fine and the temperature balmy,

sometimes the need for an outing comes upon you.

So it happened on a recent Friday evening that we set out for an aimless wander along the river at Southbank in the city.



We were not the only ones feeling like an outing !!

Southbank was bright and sparkly with lots of people of all ages out enjoying the lovely evening.

The lovely bouganvillea walkway was ablaze with colour

 

By 7 o'clock darkness was falling as it does here in the sub-tropics....

very quickly !
.

Families and couples were enjoying picnic teas on the grass as the city began to sparkle across the river.



It was only a short time before it was completely dark

 

 so we caught the ferry across to the other side of the river for a bite of tea .

The paddle steamer restaurant was loading up for the dinner cruise.

Then it was off home again on the CityCat ferry.

We sat out the back and watched the city disappear

with the breeze adding to our enjoyment of another fantastic evening

in our lovely modern city.

Cheers  .....

 from Brisbane

 

SUMMER STORMS

Summer days in Queensland often mean hot, humid days that end in super thunder storms.

Yesterday, the warnings started in the early afternoon and we could see the storm building up from our backyard vantage point.



Gradually the sun disappeared, the humidity increased and we waited

and batterned down the hatches !

It wasn't long before the sun disappeared

but luckily for us the worst of it passed us by.


Cheers.