Boys in bed on sunday night

I gave Ev a conference folder and a pen.  It has a pad inside.  He uses it to write sometimes quite long stories - a few pages at a time.  Then he puts the pen away and zips it up.  Quite secretive.  Tonight's edition was called "The Terribel Weekend" - I was relieved to get a glance of the first line and find that it was about a family that went away for the weekend ... 

Aiden's at last been bitten by a bit of a reading bug - spies and secret agents and missions impossible.  Good stuff for keeping those Sunday night blues at bay.

Pics of you three at Trev and Lexie

I concede that there is something very weird about this photo that I concocted - good sports all of you for agreeing to it - and of course I absolutely love it - in the world of the instagram filter selfie, no one takes still life portraits any more :-)

You beautiful thing

I of course now regret how lazy I was with the camera while you were here - but it really is not remotely interesting taking photos with such fascination around.

Love the Onesie - hope that winter is much nicer for slothing around in

I went to Hang Hau on Saturday to the hardware store with Aiden - he raved about how cool it was to go to the shops with Josh.  You were so lovely to the little guys - thanks - we all utterly adore you and feel whole being with you again.  Death star action with Ev - and below what it looked like at the end of a build this Sunday afternoon - top deck on - all springing off your foundations.  Ev very pleased

Lights of Sai Kung across the bay

So excited that you are coming; counting days.  It was a lovely evening tonight.  Brett and Dana came for dinner, ate outside, played table tennis, chatted.  Ange saw the UFO lights of Sai Kung in the clouds across the bay, behind the hills. I took a time exposure from the balcony.  Like an atomic mushroom of light.  Its a cool photo - but the upload at 72dpi cant handle the fine grain in the sky that you see on the full size; pity, its part of the appeal for me.
Went out last night to meet a dear friend who I've not seen for eight or nine years.  It was great, but you have to cram a lot of togetherness into an evening - spent today feeling old, paying the price.

Po Toi O time travel for lunch

Been on the road, so took some time off over lunch on a grey-grey windy day, and walked with Angie to Po Toi O fishing village, felt time slowing down with each step closer.  Can't remember if we went here together, perhaps one night, but it is time travel and a delight - if not we should make a date for it this time.

Houseboats, more boats, floating pontoons, grungy as can be - some interesting salty smells.

Inside one of the restaurants - basic as all hell - dodgy perspex windows rattling the in the wind, see-through bin-liner sheeting on plywood disk tables, and then wild wonderful fresh seafood, spiced with fiery chili - smashed down in chipped enamel dishes.  Fantastic.  A couple next to us tuck into a massive crab. 

On the way back, walked out and full, there is one bus, which comes infrequently.  The driver finds the whole thing all a bit taxing, so lets you on, and then switches off the engine and cracks back for a quick power-nap.  Lovely, slow-life, while thirty kms away the city runs amok.

Charlottesville late Feb 2015

US trip to Charlottesville - literally the other side of the earth, 30 hours of travel-time - but then this - the Omni (the hotel we use when visiting) a face-brick triangle of a place, beautifully softened in snow.  LOVED it.  Spent a fair bit of time walking around listening to the grinding sound it makes under your feet.

I like this wall, the array of colours in its bricks.  So I had noticed it before, took a picture of the shadow-tree below once before, and this time again bare with white. 

Evan