Newspaper

 

Autumn is in full swing here on the West Coast. On one particularly blustery windy day I walked next door from my work to a cafe/bakery to buy myself a coffee, this place is always busy as they make awesome food - lots of buns, cakes, biscuits, filled rolls, hot pies etc. I'm surprised to see so many campers still driving around given the current petrol situation. Apparently a load of diesel has recently arrived into New Zealand but my car uses normal 91/regular but at least it doesn't use much, it's a very economical car.

Linking up with Weekend Reflections and The Weekend Roundup.

Caffe L'affare

When my sister was visiting us from the North Island a couple of weeks ago, we drove down to Hokitika to do some op shopping and have lunch. We use to visit the Stone Oven Cafe, which is in this photo but at the time it was too busy and full of people so we decided to eat across the road at Stumpers Cafe.

I usually like to eat healthy as much as I can so I had ordered a warm Chicken salad which was very tasty. My sister went home again a few days later but I'm extremely thankful we were able to see her - she has a van that she has converted to a type of camper so she sometimes travels around the country.

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Valentines day birthday

 

Back in February a work friend and I were invited to another colleague's event which was his 1 year old daughter's birthday. In Indian culture birthdays are a huge thing in New Zealand so we were very privileged to be invited and to be able to attend. I had only just finished work so I was still in my work uniform.

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Out my window

 

This is another piece of street art that I saw on the Hokitika Beach pathway a couple of weeks ago. Named "Out my window" and the artist is Sheryl Brooker.

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Mirror

 

Last week on the 18th March it was my 55th birthday. My sister travelled down in her campervan from Northland to spend the week with us, which was lots of fun. I took the week off work so one thing we did was visit our local historical museum named "Shanty Town". It's basically an old gold mining town set up to show how life use to be complete with old buildings such as a church, saloon, grocery store, train rides, gold panning etc. There in the saloon you can pay for photos to be taken by a photographer of you dressed up in old time costume.

On the left is me, the middle is my middle child who is 27 years old and transitioning from girl to boy and on the right is my sister. I think we all look amazing don't you?

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Courier

 

I quite often see this particular driver around town, he comes into my work and I know that those in this industry work long hours. I wouldn't want to do it myself.

We are starting to see early Autumn here, the mornings are becoming darker now that daylight savings is here and the air is getting chilly. We still don't have the mink blanket or the electric blanket on the bed but no doubt those won't be far off.

Much of the country has been covered in storms in flooding but strangely enough, the West Coast where we are is fine (as usual but it has a reputation for getting too much rain when it doesn't). I'm thankful we are ok here and have no flooding.

This was our morning sky yesterday morning. Red sky in the morning, shepherd's warning...

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Greymouth Street Sprints 2026

 

Sunday morning was the annual event of the Greymouth Street Sprints in which local car owners and those from surrounding towns and cities race around blocked off streets in town. It's a huge fun thing to go and watch. The photos above were of only a small selection of cars that were there and the video below shows some of them doing burn outs around corners. The local council every year give the approval for this.

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