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Showing posts with label Kircaldie and Stains. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kircaldie and Stains. Show all posts

Saturday, March 9, 2013

Getting Ready For Easter At Kirks


Clucky, the Easter egg laying chicken

It was off to Kirkcaldie & Stains for our traditional visit to see Clucky the Hen who lays chocolate covered marshmallow Easter eggs.
We visit Clucky every year, the build up to Easter would just not be the same without her.


Clucky has just laid an egg

Kircaldie and Stains department store has been around since 1863 but of course Clucky hasn't been around that long.  My Nana and Grandad used to take me to visit Clucky and that was many, many moons ago.




As you can see from the video above, Clucky really put's a smile on your face and it's amazing how many adults still come to see Clucky and put in their 50 cent piece to have an egg laid for them.
I still do..!!!!!




After our visit to Kirk's (Kirkcaldie & Stains) we had a quick visit to the botanic gardens to see what was in flower now.  It's been a little while since we were last there.




There were some lovely vibrant colours so I had a bit of a sit down and just enjoyed the sights while Salem went and did some fort building.  It keeps him busy for ages.
I had to call out for him when it was time to leave.
We ended up missing our bus anyway so had to wait for the next one.




It's going to be interesting to see what the gardeners are going to plant for the autumn displays.


Sunday, December 18, 2011

Christmas in Wellington Shops



 We had a good walk around window shopping on Saturday and saw this lovely window display.
I forgot what the shop was called but it was up Cuba Street.


 This is such a great idea and looked so cute.



 Salem just loves this and will be making his own version.



 Also on Cuba Street was this window display at Iko Iko.
Something different for xmas.
The shop was so full that it was an effort to get in and then to get out again.
We couldn't really look at anything so battled our way out.


This was taken at the Xmas Shop at Kircaldie & Stains, Wellington's oldest and most
wonderful department store.
We love coming here an looking through the many floors and imagining what we
will buy if we ever became rich.
They were having a half price sale on their xmas ornaments so we treated ourselves to one each.