NZ: Double birthday wishes
For most of us it’s still the 3rd of May, but in New Zealand it’s already the 4th and that means it’s Thorvin and Jonnie’s birthday too! Happy birthday boys!
NZ: Christchurch the rocking city
Here’s another letter from Linda (below) with a look at the damage in pictures ??? just click the link. Apparently they’ve had more than 200 aftershocks in the 65-plus hours since the earthquake! Can you imagine? Also, Kelly reports that the insuran…
NZ: Earthquake Update from Linda
From: Linda Russell Sent: Sun, September 5, 2010Subject: earthquake update Hi there, firstly thanks to you all for your concern. We are all safe & well here. We have Greig & Kelly staying with us as their house has lots of problems at the moment &…
NZ: All are well after quake in Christchurch
As you all probably know, the Russells were awakened to a 7.1 magnitude earthquake early yesterday morning. After several attempts to reach Linda and John, reports finally came through via Facebook late yesterday that all are okay, though there ha…
58K+km traveled
“After 341 day, 12 counties, over 38849km travelled, 8 plane journey’s, 12 train rides, 8 boat rides and more sleeper buses, local buses, mini vans, tuk tuks, jeepny’s, kayaks, mopeds, motorbikes, horses, zip lines and bicycles then i can remember…
the grandkids
Hi , thought I had sent you this one, don’t know about the colouring, was Gordons camera. I didn’t even know till the other night that I could do delay setting on my camera, Greig just sat it up & hey presto hahaha modern tech, is not really my th…
Gordon & Sarah on the long journey home
Hi there, Thought I’d send you a photo or two of Gordon & Sarah’s last supper with us. They flew out this morning for Melbourne, the first leg of thier long trip home. Lorna & I took them to the airport, at 4am, their flight was at 7am. Later Lorn…
From the Land of the Long White Cloud
More photos swiped from Karen’s Facebook album (thanks cousin!). Here’s Karen with her mum, sister-in-law Kelly, and the visiting Gordon and Sarah. And one of poor Thorvin who apparently broke his elbow going backwards on a scooter at school. He d…
The boys from NZ
Photos from Karen’s New Year’s camping trip with her boys, Flynn, Taylor and Thorvin.