Silver anniversary for a naked bear

Wohoooo, my family actually got this organized - they invited some friends and part of the original Wedding party to help celebrate our Silver Anniversary - eg 25 Years since we got married. Dunno how Mamabear managed to put up with me for that long??? Anyhow apart from the lack of hair and urm - well some goodly developed hunger protection (also called Love handles) we have not changed much since this pic was taken!! Yeah right! :P

We ended up at this restaurant and had a set menu - lovely meal and company!



People who were present were:
Best man (at the wedding)
Some members of the (secret) squirrel club
Mamabear's youth leader and his mum who taught her at Sunday school
The parents of the next door neighbors (who's then cute wee girl was the flower girl, and could not make the event)
The mother and her partner of my two honorary daughters (now there is a story to be told :P )
oh and of course the rest of my family.

Meanwhile - today is another hot hot hot sunny day and seeing it was my last day on annual leave i thought about going to the beach!! Seeing that today IS the actual day - so maybe not - but rather stay at home and cook a special meal for us later . . . . followed by a glass of grape juice . . . . . ^^ :)


This was me during our recent trip up north!! The beaches were fantastic, and I am only sorry we missed the flowering season for the pohutakawa trees! I so wish I could go back there. Maybe next year.
Notice the cool shades, for protection . . . .

Who needs enemies when u have friends

SOMEONE (who shall remain nameless but has a nick like Jamo_black or similar) has sent these through.
Seeing SHE is sooooo friendly I decided to share them with the rest of the world!!










Hmmmm this one I do like.
Wonder if I can make this into a large fridge magnet!!

Nude sunbathing teddy bear

Ach ai - I had another sleepless night and in between some funny dreams - like - I was in Italy on holiday minus the kids and wife and it was hot and sunny so robed of and did the European nude sunbathing thing, but I stayed to long out in the sun and got real brown - yes Cadbury dark chocolate brown, and melted away into the sand and ...... I woke up. So real was the dream that I found myself sweating, or was that from the two layers of duvets and blankets on top of us??? hmmm it coulda also have been the hot mamabear next to me too - who knows?!
Brr it sure has been cold!
Today we had the first decent sunshine in weeks - hurrah - all 4 hours of it!! The roads ACTUALLY dried out for once! I know - I used to live in Austria and regularly walked round town in minus 15 degrees Celsius in nothing less then Jeans and clogs - but that was when I was in my urm - indestructible teenager years. Since then the blood has thinned!!! - either that or I am definitely getting older. I am guessing the older part :(
ANYHOW the days are getting longer - (yes down under here - we are heading towards summer) whohoo - and soon there will be cherry blossoms and ducklings and little lambs - and I can work seriously on my chocolate brown tan - just not via nude sunbathing!! Hey at least I had some cool shades on - even if they were not lulu castagnettes shades!