Eketahuna Kids

Woohoo! After a week, we can finally upload this! Sorry you had to wait, Boys. It was NOT my fault!

These are (clockwise from back-left)Eli, Sam, Jesse & Jack - brothers from Eketahuna.
Jesse & Jack found the zebra. Maybe it needs a better hiding place?

Well, We got this far

But it still won't upload pics!

Find the Zebra

These are Monica and William-Jack who are over here, for the first time, from Rangiora. He found the zebra!

Well done. I think that makes 5 boys in 4 years have found the zebra now. Of course, the Hokitika Girl Guides found it too - but I think they cheated and told each other where it is - girls you see:)



And here is the zebra - not that hard to see really.

Pseudo Maori Boy

Ted doesn't make a very convincing maori boy.

Of all the kids who've had their photos taken on the 'board', and there's been hundreds of them, this is the only one who insisted on having his head turned in the right direction for the running figure. Bright boy!

Visitors

These are Peter, Ted and Immy - down here from wellington for a few days to enjoy our glorious weather.

Visitors

Kids!

We seem to be forever posting pics of older people - because, well they're interesting. However, we do see a lot of kids, probably thousands of them. I like kids, especially when they behave & don't touch stuff.

I never expected it but, generally, kiwi kids are the best behaved of the lot of them.

The two girls in this pic are very similar looking and both are missing their front teeth. I asked their mum if they were twins, but they're not - they're triplets - brother Aiden is the other one. Don't think we've had triplets come to see us before. Very cool.

Faces from the Past

Been getting lots of visitors lately. Summer holidays are in full swing. Not getting a lot of work done, too busy talking to people, but it's lotsa fun and you never know who's going to show up next.

The guy in the middle is Gil Cross whose father used to have the old 4 Square Grocery on Broadway, Reefton. He told me that i had the roof of my model the wrong colour - it should be blue not green. He would know, he painted it.

Funny what you remember about people. I remember Gil walking out of theCriterion Theatre after the screening of Mary Poppins and he was singing 'Just a Spoonful of Sugar'. sheesh!



And this is Suzanne McGeady, nee Mackay. People's appearances change over the years, but not their eyes, or voices. Delight to see them.