This is a test

My blogs are few and far between these days, so this is a test to see if I still know how to create one. Because……… I am going on an extended trip that includes London for a few days, Sydney Australia and New Zealand, then back to the UK for a week. And I hope I have something interesting to say while I am away, from time to time.

Tucker will be in Elizabeth’s safe and capable hands, and I am not get him back upon my return. Last time I was away she was very reluctant to hand him back,

The trip came about because I was talking to a high school friend who lives in Melbourne, Australia, and I mentioned the Art Deco Festival held in Napier, NZ. https://www.artdecofestival.co.nz/. Something that I had wanted to attend since friends Kate and Jim discovered it. Just before they went into Covid shutdown. Never a dull moment with those two. They did eventually make it home, but not a bad place to be all in all.

A couple of years ago I had a big Art Deco tease when my cousin Cathy and I visited Miami Beach.

I am pretty sure I wrote a blog about it. Here are some photos.

Napier was destroyed by an earthquake in 1931 and rebuilt in the current architectural style, Art Deco.

So we are heading there as part of the trip. We have booked events, croquet, cocktail and afternoon tea for example, but there is a lot of people watching to do, and free events. Vintage cars, dogs and owners decked out in Deco, bandshell concerts.

And Anne and I have our Flapper costumes ready.

I will send this out and then check my own inbox a day or so later to ensure that all systems are still in place. I hope you still want to read my blogs, but you can always easily unsubscribe, on the other hand I always like to hear from you when one goes out.

Til soon I hope.