Final Leg-shot

I thought we needed closure on the leg - so here it is, all healed up, and looking good.  I think it's quite sensitive still, though with Aiden it's hard to tell - draaaama queen that he is. 

Liz and Pete's

Liz and Pete have moved back to HK from London - and have a really cool house on the water in Lobster Bay - the other side of Sheung Sze Wan.  They invited us around for a Sunday arvie drink and a boerie roll - whatever that is in English (tasty).

Nice to have a pool, with a glass front, right on the water...Ev doesn't waste those opportunities (this child always manages to look slightly disheveled - how's the swimming costume?).  He put in a good chunk of time in the water, enough to build up a bit of a great white shark hunger, three hotdogs paid the price, in quick succession, when he eventually got out.  No rocking tonight, and definitely his mother's child in terms of metabolism.

Aiden's leg is pretty much tip top now - had the stitches out last week, I should have taken a pic to finish off the implicit leg series - tomorrow perhaps.  He gave the pool a skip in favour of  bat and ball - Daisy was fully involved, of course; added incentive to keep the rally going.

Brett and Carry - I know I say it a million times - but I do just love these people to the absolute max (and like the tree silhouette in the background too).

Ange kicking back - in a really good space she is after a nasty couple of weeks (work, leg, school stuff, sorting stuff out with her bathroom fittings distribution business plans).

School holidays here = small packs of teenagers; offsets all us increasingly aging old farts quite nicely.

Kaching kaching - all maths bling

Aiden had to do a grouping grid for his maths homework - it was like pulling teeth.  Eventually he got it together to do an ultra-slacker's job.  Not good enough I'm afraid.  Then I had a brainwave of bribery + tidying up + undesirable job + homework task - so I agreed to give him this absolute sack of shrapnel that I'd collected over the years, if he agreed to group it and count it.  So we used masking tape to set up a grid on the dining room table...and the rest was straightforward cash incentive - very Hong Kong - and from an educators perspective, very much not intrinsic motivation, sadly.  But I'm also one for the short term victory.  It was quite a job he did, with a bit of help; $320 was the haul; more lego coming I suspect.  I look forward to watching how much they love him at the till.

A little discomfort of my own

Realising that this is very lightweight compared to your brother's suffering - some discomfort of my own acquired at the yacht race - this rather insignificant little bruise -but man it is seriously uncomfortable to walk on - some types of shoes (running shoes for eg) are just unwearable.  It was thanks to one of those yacht things that you tie a rope around, mmmm, some bad language I confess.  Nice grubby foot too :-)

 

24 Hour Race - Black Shrimp (and bounce flash) in Action

Ange looking pirate.  These are all done with my new flash contraption - I think it is beyond cool - especially in the early evening shots below when it was more than just fill

Debbie - pretty much in charge - as you can see in the background, lovely day, lots of people out watching

Tracy and Simon - lurking in our area on the jetty

Roy and Ange - Roy's one of the better sailors in our team - which didn't save Ange from a swim when sailing with him last time (that's the thing about good sailors - they want to go fast - going fast means possibly flipping).  So she gave him a cuddle, but sailed with your pedantic parent.

Pete Brien - pure class human - he knows you - though you've yet to meet

As usual, plenty of advice freely offered by people on the jetty - festive atmosphere which is really nice

Rory Overton - I really like this pic - got the light just right

One of our two boats, not exactly burning past, but moving purposefully

Also liked this one of Tracy - nice light - people chilling on the jetty

Aiden looking a bit bleary eyed early on Sunday morning - peeking through gun-slits in fact

Took this one for Terry - his daughter Olivia in the red jacket, setting out for a session as a crew member in one of the Royal HK Yacht Club boats.

My favourite pic in years

I took this somewhere near Swellendam while back, and just love it - I think the detail in the foreground really moves me, if you click on it to make it bigger, and look carefully, you will see telephone poles - which give some idea of scale.  The colour version is somewhere else, earlier, on your blog.  I made this black and white for printing and I think it came out better than the colour one.  Just love it.

This is not remotely a comparison (if you go and have a look you will see why...), but I really really like the big Ansell Adams landscapes - medium format camera, ultra-detailed, impossibly fantastic - he was the prophet of landscape - google him some time - just the very final arrival point - yet in the past.

Friday night Leg(o) with Ev

It's been Aiden, Aiden Aiden, leg leg leg (it's well on the mend, btw) - after work tonight - Friday - sailing weekend ahead - Ev wanted a pic with his Lego, the backdrop was still out for some portraits that I did with Jackie and Mark - lovely child that he is.

Could not get the blog to post off our home pc - too weird and frustrating.  Read a thread on one of the Blogger forums (should be fora - sorry) which suggested going at it through Firefox rather than I.E. - the proof will be at the end - but so far it seems to be working.  Go Firefox, I will be a convert.  Hope you have a lovely weekend - will try you on the phone tomorrow / Sun.

A Leg-up (date)

Yesterday, above (looked really dodgy I thought - so went back to the doc today) which leaves us with tonight, below.  Definite improvement.