A to Z – Photographic Evidence

I’ve been saving up all my photos from the last 6 weeks so I could do an A to Z recap. :D

A is for All In

A is for All In – I had a game of poker with The Boy and a friend and I wooped their asses. I think the shiny shiny cupcakes and hearts we used as chips gave me special powers.

Baking and Cherry Coke

B if for Baking – Chickie Little has been at it again. She’s made a few new things this month, one of them being lemon meringue pie (one of my absolute favourites!).
C is for Cherry Coke – The supermarket closest to us is one of the biggest and best in the country. They have a few UK imports now and cherry coke is one of them. It was my first time trying it. Quite nice but I’m not sure that I’d regularly spend $2 on a can.

Deer, Entourage, Flowers, and Grass car

D is for Deer – Remember those shoes? The store I bought them from had a big display honouring Babycham and the Babycham deer. Too cool!
E is for Entourage – I watched all 6 seasons this month. 0_0
F is for Flowers – My friend Shonali gave birth to a beautiful little boy. I gave her these flowers on a visit to the hospital.
G is for Grass Car – Spotted when we attended Craft 2.0 at the New Dowse.

Hangover cure, Iceberg, Jewellery, Kitty

H is for Hangover Cure – Whenever I feel sick, hungover or otherwise, I can count on an e2 to get me perky again.
I is for Iceberg – As a publicity stunt an “iceberg” was placed in the Wellington harbour to bring attention to global warming.
J is for Jewellery – Lots of new stuff added this month. My favourite of the moment is the little ghost.
K is for Kitty – That crazy crazy downstairs cat has been stealing our attention all month!

Large Insects, Maranui, New Dowse

L is for Large Insects – This one being a Weta. The Boy looked over at me from the kitchen and said “Kim, don’t freak out, but there’s a weta”. 0_0 Weta have a reputation for being huge scary insects, thankfully this one was a baby, and The Boy thought it was dead. It was only playing though. I’m so glad I have a boy around to deal with this type of thing (and by deal with I mean put outside, not squish).
M is for Maranui – This much beloved cafe (and surf club) of Wellington caught on fire and was gutted. It will be back in about a year, but until then Wellingtonians mourn. The Boy’s sister is a manager and world class barista at this cafe so we’re hoping for it to be back ASAP.
N is for the New Dowse – I saw it for the first time with the girls this month while attending Craft 2.0.

Oddities of Nature, Photographs

O is for Oddities of Nature – These funny cluster things are strange looking.
P is for Photographs – Sometimes the blurry shit ones are my favourites.

My creation
My creation
Streetart

Q is for Quirky Street Art – While driving to breakfast we noticed another fence that had been covered in art. I love it when installations like this go up. The fence is going to be there regardless because it will soon be turning into a construction site, so you might as well use the space wisely.

R is for Recipes

R is for Recipes – I’ve been trying out a few new ones. This mushroom and courgette bread was pretty damn delicious.

S is for Spring

S is for Spring – I think it’s making a comeback. I’ll just ignore the torrential rain which forced its way under our front door a couple of nights ago.

Tui, Urban Wetlands, View, WordCamp

T is for Tui – These beautiful birds love the kowhai that’s flowering right outside our house.
U is for Urban Wetlands – I took a walk down to Waitangi park after a doctors visit and snapped some photos of the urban wetland they have going. I really love what they did with the area, even if it cost a shitload.
V is for View – This is what I can see from my blogging chair. Usually the blinds are down because I lounge around in my robe all day. But when I take photos inside I pull it up like this to get more light.
W is for WordCampI blogged about the fun.

X is for X rays

X is for X rays – I had a bone scan about 5 years ago. It checks the density of your bones, and because I had been on steroids for a while my first scan showed I was at the low end of the acceptable scale for bone density at my age. This time around I’ve been off steroids for over a year and my bones are looking a bit stronger and developing as they should be. Yay.

My creation

Y is for Year End – Or so The Warehouse would have you believe. Who actually buys christmas wrapping paper on the first of August?!
Z is for Zero – Which is how much I’ll be paying for my next meal at Wagamama. This photo was taken at my last meal at Wagamama. We had received vouchers from the Entertainment Book to say sorry for the crappy meal we had a Cafe Pica. Wagamama then held a competition for the best photo taken while eating at one of their restaturants and I got second prize. :D Another $40 worth of vouchers for me. Sweet.

12 Responses to “A to Z – Photographic Evidence”

  1. SARAH HANNAH Says:

    what an awesome post idea! gorgeous pics! except…. holy crap wtf is a weta?! eeek how scary! i thought we had the scariest insects but that is GROSS! ewwww (im not a bug fan. in case you couldnt tell)

    that wagamama photo makes me hungry! there used to be one around the corner from me but it closed down and moved into the cbd. i miss it. sniff.

    love the artworks too! seriously needs to happen more often; artists using spaces that no one else is. more art less war!
    xxx

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  2. x Corrine/Frock And Roll x Says:

    Aww! What a lovely bunch of photos, I actually felt homesick when I saw all of those! (Even when I saw, eek, the photo of the weta – I’d forgotten they exist, and how much they used to terrify me!)

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  3. simi Says:

    Aaagh! i don’t know wherer to start!
    The little cupcake and heart chips make me kinda hungry…. as does that lemon meringue pie! *drool* my mum used to make it when I was growing up, and you’ve just reminded me that I should ask her for the recipe.
    Gosh NZ looks likesuch a breathtakingly beautiful place! I should visit sometime since it’s only next door after all.
    Holy crap, I’m so glad we don’t get Wetas here! And that thing is a BABY?!EEEK! Although we get big icky venomous spiders and snakes and stuff, so i guess its only fair. :D

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  4. Chickie Little Says:

    I wish I had known about the Wagamama competition – we went there again just last week before the basketball. Don’t you just love free stuff! When I’m home all day I’m gonna be entering all sorts of competitions :)

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  5. Ms Constantine Says:

    You’ll have to get yourself on twitter so you have other people to talk to. It’s my main news source, bargain source, and competition source. :D

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  6. Ms Constantine Says:

    When I’ve been looking up facts about weta I’ve had to turn images off! They scare me too much.
    The biggest of the giant weta have about 10cm bodies excluding legs and antennae!

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  7. Squirrel Says:

    Hi Ms Constantine, I’ve just recently started following your blog. Love it! First thing i do when i get home after email & facebook checking is to see what’s new. Big thanks to your aunt Clare for telling me about your blog-ification.
    Squirrel

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  8. Ms Constantine Says:

    Wow, thank you very much! Great to have you here Squirrel (even though my photos are nothing compared to yours!).

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  9. Whit Says:

    A great collection of photos! I love the view from your window.

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  10. amz Says:

    Oooh yay I got really excited when I saw it was you who’d come 2nd in the waga competition – we had your pic emailed around so we could recognise who we’d be giving vouchers too!

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  11. Ms Constantine Says:

    Haha, thanks amz! Hopefully we’ll get in there sometime this week for another yummy dinner.

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  12. Jaka Meriman Says:

    You can’t get Cherry Coke in Canada either, for some reason (cherry flavoured any soda, really). But it was my lifeblood when I lived in the States. I used to drink at least a case a week. Now I have to rely on erratic trips to Buffalo, NY so I can hoard up the precious gold….

    (I may be slightly obsessed…)

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