Art Imitating Life

I have always been impressed with all the life like scarecrows scattered around the Wairarapa (Google Wairarapa scarecrows) and thought it would be neat to build one. Fortunately, our major focus for this term was art with an art show at the end of it. I suggested to my class (9 and 10 year olds) that they have a go at building their own life like scarecrows.  They jumped at to opportunity and did a magnificent job!
Can you spot my one?


Old Gran Minnie



Tibeerious The Old Photographer

  

Sam The Soccer Star

 


Kelly The Shopper



Bruce The Biker



Bruce The Biker



Scaremower Joe



Ali The Artist



Matt The Student

Catherine The Masterchef

Follow your nose Nigel

With the Olympic Distance Triathlon World Champs only a few weeks away, I probably should have been doing intervals on the bike and gone for a run today but the weather was screaming 'Go for a long ride.'

Last week I created a 'Bucket List' of training rides and runs I'd like to do this season and saw today as the ideal opportunity to tick one of the rides off.

The ride was into Wellington, loop around climbing all the major hills and back out through the Western Hills (Belmont).
I did it today, 125km/ 5.20hrs/ 1940m of climbing, all safely in the bank.

I didn't have a clear plan on where to go, I just followed my nose and as long as I was climbing, I was going in the right direction.  I had no idea there were so many steep streets in Wellington!!!

Route:
Up and over Mt Vic, around the Prison, up Hungerford Rd through South Gate dropping down to Berhampore, up Britomart St to Brooklyn and carried on up to the wind turbine, up Aro Valley and finished off by climbing up Wrights Hill in Karori.