A Good Friday
Apr. 9th, 2004 10:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
skyringTrout for dinner tonight. Trout and wok-fried chips and a very nice chardonnay.
And then we took a turn around the block to walk it off. Down to Constitution Avenue, up Anzac Parade, and home again along Blamey Crescent. It's getting colder now, shorts and polo shirt no longer quite enough, and the increasingly early nightfall all but rules out daytime walks.
Very pleasant, all the same. The highlight is when we turn right into Anzac Parade, the grand ceremonial city axis, with the wide avenue leading directly up to the War Memorial crouching like a grey stone lion under the symmetrical cone of Mount Ainslie. Behind us across the lake the two Parliament Houses are brightly illuminated, framed by National Library and High Court. And the footpath beside the memorials is wide enough for us to walk four abreast, little black terrier leading the way.
On the book front, I printed out a draft copy for Kerri, and she made appreciative noises and laughed at the jokes, so that was positive. I've been studying a Lord of the Rings location guide, inserting some brief notes about where the various bits were filmed in relation to our travels. Some can only be reached by helicopter, others are freely accessible.
But most of all I've been remembering the awesome beauty of New Zealand and trying to put it into words. I'll have to work long tomorrow to finish it all off, so I can get a copy to the printer on Sunday.
Pete, contemplating a pleasant working Easter
And then we took a turn around the block to walk it off. Down to Constitution Avenue, up Anzac Parade, and home again along Blamey Crescent. It's getting colder now, shorts and polo shirt no longer quite enough, and the increasingly early nightfall all but rules out daytime walks.
Very pleasant, all the same. The highlight is when we turn right into Anzac Parade, the grand ceremonial city axis, with the wide avenue leading directly up to the War Memorial crouching like a grey stone lion under the symmetrical cone of Mount Ainslie. Behind us across the lake the two Parliament Houses are brightly illuminated, framed by National Library and High Court. And the footpath beside the memorials is wide enough for us to walk four abreast, little black terrier leading the way.
On the book front, I printed out a draft copy for Kerri, and she made appreciative noises and laughed at the jokes, so that was positive. I've been studying a Lord of the Rings location guide, inserting some brief notes about where the various bits were filmed in relation to our travels. Some can only be reached by helicopter, others are freely accessible.
But most of all I've been remembering the awesome beauty of New Zealand and trying to put it into words. I'll have to work long tomorrow to finish it all off, so I can get a copy to the printer on Sunday.
Pete, contemplating a pleasant working Easter
