The weekend at home - wooohoo

Super-lovely to be home for the weekend - smiles between the miles; was in India last week - and it was fabulous, but still away.  Off to Aus tomorrow.  Spent Saturday gardening - very restorative as an activity; some proper manual labour, some decorative and a refurbished herb garden.  Then off to the sandbank for a super-low tide.  I smile at the personalities - Ev, sort of dreamy and soulful. When we got down to the slipway around 4.30 it was sunny and hot.  He found an old cask and crawled through the side and up through the hole.  A conning tower perhaps, with the pole as its periscope.  Then he decided to dig a hole, and build a sand chair, the completion of which he celebrated with a little jig.  Aiden on the other hand is out for some speed, up and down with his skim board.  And its just what the boy needs, a healthy chunk of time doing sprints, burning off the Mr Angry that thirteen's testosterone tsunami brings.

Tsing Ma Bridge from outside

I went with Franka, Jules' mom, to fetch Aiden from the airport, returning from a school soccer tour to Thailand.  He seems to have had a wail of a time.  The ride to the airport was in a convertable, very cool, so I got to take a couple of pics of the Tsing Ma Bridge, from the outside - nice.

Summer

Has arrived.  Lovely light, steamy late afternoon and evening at the short bar on the slipway

Dragon boating public holiday - skimming on the sandbank

Delightfully, it was a public holiday today.  Low tide was a perfect 0.4m, which meant the sandbank in the bay was out, this time at sunset.  And a beautiful beautiful evening it was.  I took the camera and headed out to the bank with the boys, joined by a delighted Daisy on the way, for a quick pre-dinner slide.  It was like an injection of great mood.

Bites of life

Ok, hands down Macy wins our super-cool prize of 2017-so-far, here below skydiving for the first time over Hawaii - curvature of the earth, and the islands below.

Last night Tottenham Hotspurs played Southern China champions Kitchee, and we went to the game. It was completely amazing.  As in completely.  Spurs won 4-1, the pace and power was electrifying.  Then at the end I stood open mouthed as I saw some kid jump the barriers, side-stepping and ducking the speeding security people - and then I realised it was my kid!  Quality parenting 101. Fortunately Harry Kane is the ultimate gentleman, and said hey sure, selfie, before he was hauled off.  Mmmm

The beautiful sky

I know its pretty tired, taking pictures out of a plane window – but the stuff you see really is quite staggering – whether it be abstract forming colours, or the simple scale and splendour of the earth.  I’m mindful of the people I know who’ve still never been in a plane – so on some level it is just unforgivable to forget to look out of the window.

A weekend morning at last

We got going early-ish, roads were quiet - beach was busier than expected when we got there and the water was pretty ordinary - tepid, zero waves (as in not even a ripple) - but still, cool to have a sport-free day and to hit the sand.  Thai food for lunch.  Home for a lazy afternoon.  Perfect.

Cool photo - check out the mill-pond behind.

Eastern harbour tunnel - looked the same behind too

The skim board provided some action relief.  I think Shek O is a winter beach.

Ev went to book week as Wally

Two weekends ago - Jules and Lars in the evening light - Dai Long Wan