Photo Album 2021

 

It’s Monday morning and Grandmother is in the outside laundry doing the family’s washing as well as looking after her grandson, Adam.

The Grandparents have taken their grandchildren out for the afternoon and have gone to the grapefruit oblong where the children have to walk through the nearly waist high grapefruit from one end to the other. 

The children are looking in at the Lego Countdown Supermarket. Pieces of Lego were given to customers last year to build a supermarket. They are allowed to go into the supermarket and have a play.

The Breeze family are in the shopping mall looking at The Wonderful World of Disney Christmas Tree. The tree has four levels with well-known Disney characters and two trains. It also plays a medley of Christmas Carols.

This Lego Technic boy is 9 cm high.

The Breeze family have visited a small town that have a sparkling footpath as a tourist attraction.

The sheep was lost but now it’s found.

The children are playing in the snow.

The children are going to go into the igloo.

James Visits a Car Display 20.5.21

 

James has arrived at the car display to look at the cars on display.

He walks over to the green mini Morris Cooper. The bonnet and doors open. Made by Kyosho and is

 1:18 scale.

This is a racing mini 177 by Kyosho and is 1:18 scale. The doors open plus the bonnet which has a prop to keep it open.

This Kyosho Station Wagon is known as a “Woody”. The doors open and it is 1:18 scale.

The BMW mini car has front doors that open and the boot opens. It is made by B bur AGO.

The Ferrari is Scala 1:18 and has open doors, the bonnet opens and the back opens and has a prop so you can see the engine.

One of the assistants has opened up the car so that the engine can be viewed.

This Toyota FJ Cruiser‘s scale is 1:18. The front bonnet opens, doors open and has seat belts. It is made by Auto Art serial 3396 as a promotional model put out by Toyota. 

James is taking this BMW motorcycle for a run. No identification is on this motorcycle.

A Visit to Morrinsville

The Sport and Light families are visiting Morrinsville to look at the life size statues of fiberglass cows. The cows have been painted by different artists and all have a different picture painted on them.

                                  

Daniel is standing next to one of the life size painted cows that are in Morrinsville, New Zealand.

Alice is standing by one of the many cows in the town of Morrinsville.

The boys are standing by some other cow statues.

This is the Mega Cow, Mabel who is 6.5 metres tall.

The children look at photos of some of the cows that are on wall.

The Sport Family are in front of the pamphlet which gives details about the life size herd of cows.

Update: Morrinsville celebrated a decade of the 'Herd of Cows' in April 2025.

Paeroa

The Breeze family visit Paeroa, the town where the L&P drink is made. They stop to have their photo taken in front of the large painted concrete bottle. The beverage is based on therapeutic spring water which, mixed with lemon, is what we know today as the drink Lemon & Paeroa (or L&P) World Famous in New Zealand. The iconic 7 metre high 1.3 metre diameter structure stands pride of place in Paeroa,

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The Lundby family are looking at a public display on the front lawn of the local Pastor.

The Sunday school class are singing carols outside this evening for 30 – 40 minutes.

The Sport family have chosen the New Zealand artisan squares selection of chocolates as their favourite chocolates for this year.

The Light family are enjoying a day at the beach. The background is the label of an L & P brown plastic bottle… it is one of New Zealand’s favourite drinks of carbonated mineral water.

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The grandparents have taken Alice, Simon and Adam to the airport to see the New Zealand Firefighters that are going to Australia to help put out the fires in New South Wales.

Simon has climbed into the ball and has asked Alice to roll it when he sits down inside it.

Simon is sitting in the ball and Alice tries to push the ball so it will roll.

Alice is not strong enough to roll the ball.

Alice and Simon are waiting for their Grandparents to pick them up to take them to the park next door to the Grandparents house and the Grandparents will give them lunch at their house.

The Sport family are enjoying the limited Edition packet of L & P flavour lumps which was available to buy a few months ago. The will have the energy to play tennis.

The Breeze family have been presented with a Roses chocolate Limited Edition tin designed by  Sarah Hankinson by the Kowhai Corner community to welcome them into the community.

New Zealand Uniforms have a glass drink container with the rubber band around it with a picture of Sammy the Snapper holding a plastic bag. Next to it reads, “ My patience with plastic bags is wearing fin.”

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Alice and a friend have been on a bike ride. On the left is a pop up card from Vietnam.

Thomas and Grandpa are admiring the Austin car.

The boys are exploring exploring on the rocks.  (I couldn't get a better photo without the light on it.)

The Sport Family have a family photo taken.

The children are playing on a tree at Kowhai Corner Playground.

This photo was taken for Lundby Lovers on Facebook. Unfortunately Alice is not in the photo because she had been lost for approx. six weeks. I have moved house and yesterday I found her in a box of items I use for props for photos.

Grandfather Jonathan has taken his grandsons Simon and Daniel to the Tidmouth Sheds to see Thomas the Tank Engine and his friends. They all had a happy day together looking around the complex and having a ride on one of the trains. 

This Roses Limited Edition tin of chocolates by Megan Hess has been given to the Light family. The chocolate tin was available to buy at Christmas 2019.

The Grandparents admire the Flying Scotsman Clock with sound and movement. It was available in 2011 in the UK.

Simon and Alice are playing soccer with friends. The background picture is by Ruth Blair.

Adam Comes Home to a New House

The flat pack house for Thomas and Sarah has arrived. Thomas is very pleased because he going ask his friend to help build it. He hopes he can have it finished before Sarah comes home from hospital with Adam.

His friend, Ben and his father Jonathan are available and they make a start building the house.

They are making progress.

While the men are progressing with the building of Thomas’s house his sister, Ava, her husband and two children have arrived at the Grandparents house. They have come to see baby Adam and will stay in their caravan parked on the Grandparents section. Grandmother, Esther tells the family that the men are building Thomas’s house. Bill leaves the family at the Grandparents house and drives to Thomas’s section.

The men are putting the finishing touches to the house when they hear a similar voice behind them. They turn around and see Bill. This is a nice surprise.Jonathan tells Bill that he is picking up Sarah and Adam from the hospital tomorrow and that she has no idea that the house will be ready for them to move into.

The next day Jonathan picks up Sarah and Adam and brings them home to their new house. Sarah did not know that the new house would ready and she also did not know that the family are at the house to welcome them home. This is a very happy day for all the family.