Entries from December 2007

December 11, 2007

More Batman

The photographer from the store emailed the pics of Batman and Batboy.
The cuddle was when he first met him, and all the staff went “ahhhwwwwlllll”. Very cute.
The second one Janine is intensely embarrassed as Batman was asking who made his outfit. The fleece cut-out bat on the back is cool in NZ.
The last [...]

December 6, 2007

Happy Birthday Nina

So the day after getting back from an exhausting but worth while trip in the blizzard to Toronto (& Kitchener), it was Nina’s birthday today.
As Charlie puts it Hassy Birday, they boys were very excited giving mum her presents this morning, some shortie PJ’s, her Ralph Lauren Gloves (essential in Toronto snow) and a coffee [...]

December 3, 2007

And it snowed…

{ed update – so I’ve just checked the Dunedin weather and it’s 22°C and slightly nor-wester, hmmm}
Ok without a doubt this is the heaviest snowfall I have ever been in. It’s incredible. We’ve all seen those images from american TV where the town is under several feet of snow, I can now see [...]

December 2, 2007

Yip, it snowed

But thankfully not as much as on Vancouver Island at a place called Nanaimo (yummy chocolate fudge bar) and further inland, where they have 10-30cm of snow.
It started snowing sat am and then kept going till lunch time, then hit again big time late afternoon. And we are expecting at least 10cm sat night. [...]

December 1, 2007

Holly Snow Batman

Hey guys, two things.
First the start of winter is still one month away and we have snow everywhere with predictions of up to 10-30cm in and around Vancouver!!! Still at least we aren’t in Manitoba where there are sever weather warnings again, yesterday the temps got up to -37°C and -41°C!!
The other thing was, [...]