Light, love, and a smile

Forever and ever - three months - a quarter; I think the longest hiatus since I started your blog.  How much changes in that short time - how precious each hour together.  Want to be a better father.


Ross and Karen with Geordie - your second cousins - lovely people (as are Sean and Lee, not in this pic.  Heavenly place.

 

Jordan shoots my office 360 using an iPhone

The Cox's came for dinner last night which I really enjoyed.  While they were here, Jordan used an iPhone to shoot a 360 of my office which I thought looked really cool.  Aiden's in the doorway.

Thinking of you always - but especially today

Lovely Josh - we are thinking of you in particular today.  It's been a cool weekend, crystal clear from Friday night and the sun shone on Saturday - we are looking at two days a month at the moment, so its a big deal.  Today is back to grey - but still lovely.  Took a portrait shot of the boys - here they are.  Ev is such a quirky dude, just makes me giggle :-)

Sunday and the wintery-water

It's a resilient winter this, thankfully - summer's onslaught awaits.  Sunday was cool and grey - but just cool fun too.  We went down to the slipway and ran a radio controlled boat that Aiden was given for his birthday; it made Ev smile - he got a turn too.

 

Later on we hit the beach - there is zero surf, but Aiden was keen to go skim-boarding, so we borrowed Dylan's old one so he could get a dose of the feelings he likes - the colours were great ...

For me now, this is just an excellent way to make an ass of yourself, break your arm, or worse; for well balanced snappers like him it's just great exercise - spend a chunk of the afternoon sprinting up and down the beach to get the velocity for a ride that the absent waves are no longer offering.  The photos remove the speed - he's really zipping along, and is pretty good - the big jol, it seems, is to get some good pace on the flats, and then try for some air on the incoming ripples.

Would be cool to chat.  I've been waiting to confirm dates for a short SA trip - it's looking like it will be the week of the 27th of May - so hope to see you, maybe a bite to eat?  Also, please remind me to give you your birthday prezzie - it is supercool - but I can get lost in the brightness of everything.

Moonlight Evan - a drop not a tear

Your littlest brother shies away from the camera, and so mostly, if at all, I catch him only engrossed in something - he concentrates so, that it blacks out everything else; we've giggled, because sometimes he's so wrapped up in something that you can lift up an unengaged arm, let it go, and it just comes back to rest slowly without him noticing.  Every now and then he'll agree to a shot.  Like this one, where I asked him if I could do a light reading on him to test my flash board.  And so technically engaged, he agrees.  I think sometimes I need one of those camera traps that people use to photograph jaguars in the Amazon - this is what he'd look like - watching as he does from chocolate eyes.  He is to me an exquisite child; complex, shy, golden.

 

With summer come the squid (boats)

Summer is creeping into Hong Kong, much like I imagine winter is creeping into your world.  I looked at the Pretoria weather a moment ago - a max of 26, but a min of 11 - so it's happening, with the shortening days.  Summer here means the squid come back, and our bay is at night wildly lit by the calamari boats chug-chugging across it.  At 8.45pm - football stadium zing, but with a lovely sand rippled sky.  It's patterns reminded me a bit of a Knysna lagoon photo from years ago with the tide creeping in.  I'm thinking of you - hope you are smiling, enjoying your life and learning.

Courtney on Sunday, grubby Aiden on Wednesday...

Courtney on Sunday - back from the Cox's skiing extravaganza in Niseko, Japan (after playing rugby for Hong Kong in Bangkok in 43 degrees (I have to check that - maybe my mind is playing tricks on me)!

The delight of rugby practice on a very muddy Wednesday night (when you should be asleep)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But the tough-guy look only lasts for so long, and then the cheerfulness breaks through.