Going Deco

Last weekend I met up with a friend from Melbourne who is a bit of an Art Deco fan and we went to the Art Deco Festival in Napier. The city was devestated by an earthquake in the early '30s and a lot of the buildings were rebuilt from scratch in the style of the time.


The festival is fantastic and most people really get into it. You have never seen so many hats, braces, parasols and fur stoles in one place,


not to mention fabulous cars, buses, tractors and bicycles.



Then on Sunday morning there was the Box Car Derby and these were not your old orange boxes, we are talking serious vehicular design and yet more serious outfits.

Back in Melbourne...

for a birthday party and a conference but also for coffee

and another coffee
and this lovely fellow now has a new home in the forest in our children's area thanks to my business card being pulled out of a box. He's coming to Auckland in a 'diplomatic pouch' and is then being driven to NP.

Happy walking