more from New Zealand

this will be quite tricky, but i am determined to do a piece on New Zealand that does not feature any (or at least not too many) defamatory or inflammatory statements about my brother-in-law Grant. sadly this might mean my dear sister Gillian gets some stick instead, but never mind.

firstly, here are the delightful Daniel & Katie sitting together rather nicely, clearly abandoning the idea of using the conventional chairs which surround them. i have included this one because, in her email, Gillian was particularly proud of the fact that Daniel was now sitting up by himself. the mind boggles, then, as to exactly what it is that Grant does when he sits down that this is celebrated in the high manner in which it is!





aaah, here we have Gillian's class approach to parenting. i have no doubt that she considers bunging them both down a slide and seeing what happens as some sort of "character building" adventure for the two of them. Katie has that "are you sure Mama?" look about her in all of this business, and Daniel is not all that far behind her.

it's no good wearing sunglasses as you do this sort of thing Gillian, we can all see that it is you. and why, exactly, does one need a steering wheel on a slide?




and finally, a brilliant image of Daniel in his walker, with Katie "helping" it along. i am not inserting any comments about women drivers here, i am a hopeless driver and have no grounds to make such comments on!





thank you Gillian, Grant, Katie and Daniel for the great pics! as excellent as they are, i am sure my regular readers are all rather looking forward to more images of Grant, sheep, rubber boats and sailors in the near future. preferably all together, but as many of them as you can manage in one picture will do.....


be excellent to each other!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!