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Each journey begins with a single step... Two kiwis escaping from the island to explore strange new worlds and boldly go where thousands have gone before... . .

Trip: New Zealand

There are [44] stories from my trip: New Zealand


Already into the second month of the year!

NEW ZEALAND | Tuesday, 12 Feb 2013 | Views [780]

First new news is that Corrin, my youngest daughter is to be married in March on the Gold Coast. After many hours trolling the websites we got some return tickets with Jetstar (they don't have the best name so will have our fingers crossed) for about ... Read more >


13 is that a lucky number???

NEW ZEALAND | Tuesday, 25 Dec 2012 | Views [1030]

And so another year begins. To tell the truth the ending of 2012 was not a happy one for one of our friends namely our flatmate Louey who was let go from his work a few days before Christmas. With his family due over in two days and his home in Sth ... Read more >


Good old Movember comes around again

NEW ZEALAND | Saturday, 24 Nov 2012 | Views [596]

I am sitting in bed, the sun is pouring itself over me through our window. It's a slightly hazey dazey, we are not sure this is just the air or if there is some ash in it from Tongariro which decided to belch after over 100 years of dormancy, or maybe ... Read more >


Photos: Rocktober

NEW ZEALAND | Sunday, 14 Oct 2012 | Photo Gallery

Spencer Edward Gilbert
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Rocktober

NEW ZEALAND | Sunday, 14 Oct 2012 | Views [682]

Time is shooting by very fast! How do I know this? I am a grandmother yet again! From nothing to 2 in 5 months, who would have thought! My new grandson Spencer Edward Gilbert was born in Auckland on 31st August. Wow he is already over a month old, ... Read more >


July Blues

NEW ZEALAND | Wednesday, 4 Jul 2012 | Views [814] | Comments [1]

Be nice to be talking about the sky, though to give credit where it's due we have had a few fine days in June finally, cold though and there's the blues. Thank goodness for the trees we and friends cut down last year and chopped up and stockpiled. ... Read more >


Photos: April arrival

NEW ZEALAND | Sunday, 22 Apr 2012 | Photo Gallery

The birth of our granddaughter on 22 April at 6.34pm
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April Special

NEW ZEALAND | Sunday, 22 Apr 2012 | Views [696]

We are grandparents! :)  My granddaughter had a due date of 10th April but didn't want to leave the comfort of the womb, understandable. On the 21st they took Rachel into the birthing unit at Middlemore Hospital to monitor her blood pressure and on ... Read more >


Photos: 2012 New Zealand

NEW ZEALAND | Thursday, 22 Mar 2012 | Photo Gallery


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Ides of March

NEW ZEALAND | Thursday, 22 Mar 2012 | Views [1193]

Must be a good time to write some more about our lives. The new year got off to a good start with Kent buying me a most beautiful ring which I love. The rest of the year has to be fantastic after that good start don't you think? On Valentines Day ... Read more >


December, we have been home a whole year!

NEW ZEALAND | Monday, 26 Dec 2011 | Views [876]

On December 3rd we had been back in NZ for one year, amazing! Time has flown by and our lives have changed so much. A few more days and another year has passed by, wow. Nothing much has changed since last writing although it seems like a lot has ... Read more >


Movember already

NEW ZEALAND | Friday, 4 Nov 2011 | Views [907]

Hmmm, it seems that 2 monthly suits the lifestyle here better, or is it just that as we grow older time passes more quickly? We are into the warmer weather and now sleep with our windows open to hear the birds in the bush behind both for the evening ... Read more >


AAGGHH September already! 2 months has passed!

NEW ZEALAND | Tuesday, 6 Sep 2011 | Views [1073]

My promise to myself was to blog at least once a month, surely it has only been a month... Kent's birthday tomorrow, the 7th, that means it's September mmm, the last blog was 6 July. I guess a lot has been going on (she says thinking hard). Lots has ... Read more >


Mid-winter July in Rotorua

NEW ZEALAND | Wednesday, 6 Jul 2011 | Views [1031]

It has taken longer than expected to get back on here, our apologies... We have now moved into our 'new' home, it's big brick place on the side of the small mountain called Mount Ngongotaha situated right beside the small city of Rotorua. We have ... Read more >


Muddily May

NEW ZEALAND | Friday, 13 May 2011 | Views [798]

We daily run the gambit of changing climate, today we had an extremely misty morning which developed into overcast then the sun came out in the afternoon but by 5pm huge black clouds came over and down came the rain. It has been a good month. Kent's ... Read more >


April in Rotorua

NEW ZEALAND | Saturday, 16 Apr 2011 | Views [820] | Comments [2]

We have had some much cooler weather in the end of March and definitely feel autumn on its way. This is a magic time in Rotorua with the beautiful colours on the trees going from yellow all through the range to a deep red. The sun still has plenty ... Read more >


the big C

NEW ZEALAND | Wednesday, 30 Mar 2011 | Views [1238] | Comments [1]

This month has been a real doozy!  At the end of February Carol was recalled to see a surgeon after a routine mammogram showed that she had breast cancer. After a biopsy we were told she had grade III infiltrating ductal carcinoma, meaning that the ... Read more >


Living back in Rotorua

NEW ZEALAND | Thursday, 24 Feb 2011 | Views [948]

We are both working and living here in this beautiful city, Kent at his old job and Carol is delivering census forms for Statistics NZ. Our census day is March 8th, deliveries up until then and then collections after if people fill in the paper forms, ... Read more >


Living back in Rotorua

NEW ZEALAND | Monday, 31 Jan 2011 | Views [931]

Today is Monday the 31st January 2011 and it is a holiday (Auckland Anniversary Day) for the Auckland province which includes Rotorua somehow, even though we are part of the Bay of Plenty province... Any holiday is a good day right! Not that Carol ... Read more >


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