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Sunday, October 26, 2014

A Belated Blog and Upcoming Nuptials

September 20th - 21st  2014

A fair number of weeks back now Andrew and I ventured back into the New Forest, accompanied by my brother, Jody and his wife Gina.  We had a marvellous weekend with a fair bit of sightseeing, fun and laughter.  With a good selection of food thrown in :)

So I will let the photo’s speak for themselves:

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Forest Fungi

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More Forest Fungi

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and some more

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got to love that forest fungi

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Shocking focus but patiently waiting for me to finish photographing THAT FOREST FUNGI!!

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and a whole fungi city
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and from the other side

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those little midgets all over, couldn't photoshop them out!

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so a view from the top instead

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take a guess

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really old tree roots

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food source for something

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a lovely bright yellow one :)

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Fungi at the High Corner Inn !!  not for lunch by the looks of it

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A walk on the moors

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Deciding on a path

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And just what i was hoping we would spot.  Lucky for us Andrew spooked them from underneath the crab apple tree.

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Looking back

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and skipping over the ridge

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View from the 'summit'
 
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and another stag !!

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Gina's home-crafted Martini  -using olives from some antipasto! Apparently still tasted good.  I wonder if the garlic gave it an extra boost

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Forest track

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a bevy of beauties

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and another large fungi


 As I did last time we went to the New Forest, Gina wished to see the beach.  So we made our way to Mudeford Quay. Naturally Gina wanted to wet her feet :)      IMG_8728


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Sailing, dogs and birds

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On The Rocks !!

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Thoughtfull

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something of interest

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a bucketfull of crabs allowed to return to the sea

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Black Headed Gull in winter plumage

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Lobster pots

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Black Backed Gull in winter plumage


And to today – We are slowly packing all the necessities for our trip back to New Zealand after 2 years away.  Our daughter Robyn is getting hitched and we need to be there to so that I can weep and Andrew can give her away and all the family will be there to see it  :)

Really looking forward to seeing our girls and being able to give them a proper hug instead of a virtual one. Not looking forward to the actual flight but it has to be done!

So that is where we all are for now