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Lord have mercy! Someone’s doing something super amazing and COOL for the kids this summer – and parents, totally, super cool for parents. Trust me on that one because Dave and I are freeeakkkking about this festival inside a festival yo! Auckland Kiddie Limits is doing what no event has done before; providing a world class kids festival in the …
Let me preface this by saying, this is a special kind of book for a special kind of kiwi kid. One that hates to be laced into shoes and stuffed into cars to hustle from here to there, a kid that doesn’t blink at dirty hands and can fashion a fishing line out of anything. A kid that wears shorts …
I wish my bro was a mummy-blogger. He has the rare ability to translate his IRL personality exactly into the written word. He can be totally caustic and make you want to punch him in the face, but he also speaks truthfully and from the heart and as such, I couldn’t agree more with his response to Deborah Hill Cone’s repulsive …
The New Zealand Post Children’s Book Awards celebrates annually the depth and range of talent our home-grown authors can offer kiwi readers. Ethan devours books at a rate that is hard to keep up with, so we were so happy to receive a package containing novels for review from two of the finalists in the Junior Fiction section. First on …
Not many words this week, aside from that I LOVE Christchurch. It’s people and it’s resilience in the face of unimaginable natural adversity and a bureacratic nightmare are astounding. I simply cannot imagine a more wonderful city to host the first ever Around the Table Bloggers Conference. Thank you so much, you know who you are x Ohhh, Treena Marie. …
I looked outside yesterday and couldn’t help but appreciate the sight of two loads of whites drying on the line, yes the water truck came {FOR THE 5TH TIME} and so we washed. I hate to begrudge people a long, amazing summer, seeing as how the season of sun is sometimes so fickle here in New Zealand; but enough is …
Let me preface this by saying that I have a smart kid. A really smart kid. Last year at the end of term 3, E was discussing his maths group, after some questions I established three things; He had been sliding down through the maths groups the entire year He had landed with an inconspicuous SILENT thud in the lowest …
You haven’t missed out the festival ends Sunday the 24th February! For more info visit the organisers website http://www.aucklandnz.com/lantern/programme/sunday Attending this event has been on my to-do list for years and yesterday, late afternoon we headed over to town and got amongst the wonderful crowd. We were blown away by the HUGE masses of people. It was mind boggling. Princes St …
Last month I received a gorgeous wee book in the mail to read and review. I was excited. I love books and LOVED this book in particular as it gave me a chance to go back to those precious long days {and short years} of Ethan’s early life. This would make a perfect baby shower gift for an expecting mama …
I was reading the New Zealand Herald online today {as I do most every day}, when the absolute bullshit articles in the Life & Style section led me to a wondrous ‘AHA’ moment. Don’t worry peeps, you don’t have to subject yourself to the torment of actually reading said articles, I took one for the team and will fill you …