2014 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. I love the annual summary that wordpress produces! Thank you WordPress! Here’s an excerpt:

Christmas beach BBQ: summer is here!

Christmas number 2 in New Zealand, and Christmas no 2 without Mum. The latter never gets any easier. On the run up to Christmas Day it was really hot and sunny. Invercargill has been looking […]

Sunny Christmas? We’re all set!

This week has been a little surreal to be honest, being the penultimate week until Christmas. The sunshine has finally stayed with us, I think El Nino spring has finally ended and we have some […]

7 days of comedy, swimming & 1st Aid

This week marked another first: a sea swim in the local bay, SOLO! I was a wee bit apprehensive but it was actually really lovely! And free! But seems odd that I just rock up […]

Saving the wildlife, living the high life!

This week I have caught and rescued birds (from the clutches of my cats!) found where they hide proper English marmite here, made my first kiwi mince and cheese pie and posted off all my […]