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PhotoHunt – Wild

Anne S

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It’s time to jump back onboard with the weekly Photo Scavenger Hunt now my phone line is back up and running. This week’s theme is “Wild” and I’ve chosen a photo of me doing one of the ‘wildest’ things I’ve ever done … Tandem Parapenting in Nelson, New Zealand!

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This was my initiation jump before jumping out of an aircraft, but things went a little ‘wrong’ on the day. We basically ran and jumped off the hillside and my stomach was ‘flip-flopping’ dreadfully, and I absolutely hated it, then the pilot spun us around in a 360deg circle, and we started just peacefully sailing and I enjoyed it again. We had a pretty rough landing by hitting an air pocket and plummeting fast the last few feet, then getting dragged backwards a bit by the wind … and the ground crew came over to us saying “that was a bit hairy, wasn’t it?” … “what was?” I asked innocently … “when the ‘chute collapsed” came the reply … my jaw hitting the ground was my own response! As it turns out that ‘flip-flopping’ was in fact us free-falling … needless to say, I hated the sensation, and to this date you will never ever get me to do that final airplane jump … never ever, nada, zip, no how! And I was the only one of our group that got to jump that day, as the operators decided it was too dangerous to do any more! At least I can say I’ve “been there, done that”, but definitely never ever again!

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PhotoHunt – Annoying (& Silly)

Anne S


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This week’s theme is “Annoying” … there wasn’t much I could think about this week for annoying that I could actually take a photo of, so this is the best I could come up with … it was incredibly “annoying” finding this great big bolt head sticking up out of my tyre driving home from work after night shift – and even more “annoying” having to buy two brand new tyres out of it (although admittedly I’d been thinking the tread was getting low on them anyway). Sorry for the poor shot, but my camera battery died and I couldn’t take a clearer one.

And an archival one just in time for the festive season – here’s my Dad, the Christmas fairy … my choice for the “Silly” theme. It’s amazing what a party at the local RSA will make you do!

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PhotoHunt – Red (& Old)

Anne S


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This week’s theme is “RED” … going by the current festive season, I’m sure there will be a few Santa suits on the blogs, but I opted for something different. This is a friend ‘Sha’ at her wedding not long before I moved from Auckland – my first Indian wedding, it was a wonderful cultural experience and this photo in no way does her stunning outfit justice! 🙂

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My second choice for this week’s theme is a scene from outside the Sik Sik Yuen Wong Tsai Temple in Hong Kong … I took this photo just because of all the red colour that was predominant 🙂

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And lucky last, here’s another archive theme – this one is “OLD” … again I had a few choices for this theme, but I opted to use this one, which is one of my all-time favourite photos I’ve taken … “keeping OLD traditions alive” – starting a fire in Fiji 🙂

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PhotoHunt – Lights (& Round)

Anne S


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This week’s theme was a definite challenge for me while hunting through my minimal photo library (oh boy, I miss my huge pile of photos back in Auckland) … but I managed to find something that would fit the theme of “Lights“.

This photo is of a row of street lights illuminating the way down St Kilda Pier in Melbourne (well, they would be illuminating the way if it was dark LOL).

Next up are some lights illuminating the room at the Sik Sik Yuen Wong Tai Sin Temple in Hong Kong (and a very difficult shot for me to get trying to reach up behind the barrier, and around a stone ‘dragon’, as well as missing the guard on duty 😉 Under the circumstances, it came out OK 🙂

Lucky last, here’s an archival theme – this one is “Round” … I had a few choices to use, but opted to do use this one – definitely not a great photographic shot, but I like it for the ’round theme’. Any LOTR fans will recognise this character – chasing the ring over the rooftop of Wellington Airport in New Zealand! 😀

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PhotoHunt – Time (& Wet)

Anne S


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This week’s theme is “TIME” … I was originally going to pop up the road and take a photo of a local building with clock face and flag flying, but the weather has been awful today, so it wasn’t worth going (and during the week I didn’t have shifts that were conducive to being home in daylight hours either). So instead I came up with the following …

Very wise words said many many years ago … “Take time to smell the roses” (Russian Proverb) – over the years I’ve come to realise how important it is to take time to enjoy the simple things in life, and everything that each day brings … These roses were from the flower markets in Hong Kong – I just adore how every single bud has it’s own protective packing!

Then just for fun, here’s my Dad dressed up as “Old Father Time” 😉

“Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.” Carl Sandburg

Now here is one from the archives again … this time the subject is “WET”. I didn’t realise I’d brought this photo with me when I moved to Aussie, but sure enough I just found this during the week … a very VERY old ph0to of me when I was about 17 – on Christmas Day in NZ, wearing my brand new dress I’d bought for the occasion (I was working full time back then as a typist) – my cousin who was visiting from the UK very kindly threw me into the swimming pool, then to add insult to injury made Mum throw a bucket of water over me while he took photos … have to admit, it’s a great action shot! 😉

The next photo is me being stupid – sitting waiting for a bus at Nadi bus depot … in the middle of Nadi being flooded! I think I was in for a looooong wait! 😛

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Anne S

I’m not really in the blogging mood of late – too much going on in my head, I think. I have a tendency to internally smother my emotions, especially with stress etc … and have been known to make myself physically ill due to it – apparently this has happened ever since I was a child. I’ve been trying to repress all the financial stress, and I’ve been managing OK, but it’s also put me a bit in ‘zombie mode’ because of it this last week. Yesterday, though, my car was looked at and nothing major is wrong, which is a huge relief. Now all I have to do is sit down today and pay all my month’s major bills (including Mr Tax Man hopefully), then I think I’ll settle down a bit emotionally again. I ended up working again last night due to a stuff-up in the roster, and they were desperate for someone to cover “my” shift (I’d taken the day off to go to Sydney), so I offered to help them out again and work. I hate the 6pm-2am shifts, and that probably hasn’t helped my mood over the last few days, as it really affects my sleep patterns. Oh well, I’m sure I’ll perk up in a couple of days time.

“Do you stitch Christmas ornaments? If so, how many do you stitch each year and for whom? If not, why not?”

Actually, it’s only been through blogging that I’ve learnt how beautiful home stitched ornies are – and I made my first ones just in the nick of time for last Christmas. This year it was my hope to make some for gifts, but I’m not doing too well hmmm (plus my financial situation is putting a damper on my plans too, and that’s probably part of the reason I haven’t stitched as many as I’d planned to yet). Perhaps next year I’ll be more organised! I did make and finish one for Mum this year, which will be an ongoing tradition for us now. I still don’t feel very confident at finishing them, so I need to make a few more to get more confident, I think.Now on to this week’s Photo Scavenger Hunt …


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Today’s theme is “Plush” … this photo taken months ago fits the bill for me this week 🙂

An archival theme was “Cold” … I couldn’t choose between two photos, so here they both are – first J & V (my very best friend in NZ) learning how to snowboard, and second the snowy mountain ranges are compliments of the South Island of New Zealand, I just love that photo! 😀

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PhotoHunt

Anne S

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Just for a change, I’ve decided to jump on the bandwagon of the weekly Photo Scavenger Hunt. I first saw this on Vash’s blog, and it sounds like fun. Unfortunately almost all of my photos are still in Auckland, but I’ve rummaged through the few I do have here, and have been coming up with photos that match the themes (at least in my eyes haha). I’ve decided to select the current theme’s photo each week from now on, but I’m also going to add one photo from the oldest themes each week as well until I’m all caught up 🙂 You may already have seen some of the photos, but there will definitely be some new ones coming up 😉

This week’s theme is GROWTH. I chose this photo because it means from a ‘personal growth’ perspective for me – every now and then I push myself to do something that thrills me but scares me a bit as well, and is something that I’ve never done before … hang-gliding pretty much tops the events to date!

The first theme of the Hunt was WHITE … there were a few different photos for me to choose from, but I ultimately decided on my frangipani flowers – I just love those creamy white petals, not to mention their fragrance … they will always evoke strong memories of my many visits to Fiji, and the friends I made over there, not to mention the many new life experiences.

As you can tell, there are no stitching piccies today … it’ll probably be like that for a few days now – back to work again tonight for two nights of 6pm to 2am shifts. I’ll pack a small project in a bag as well ‘just in case’, but it’s quite likely I won’t end up taking it out of the bag … but better to be prepared 😀