January marks the second, ‘official’ month of New Zealand summer. We Kiwi’s are comfortably settled into the annual, seasonal slow-down we look forward to every year. The kids have chilled out after the excitement of Santa’s visit, Mum’s everywhere have celebrated ‘un-decking the halls’ and returning Christmas to the boxes in the garage and everyone sadly mourned the last slice …
The Never-Ending Summer
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 …
How impressive is your ice?
My ice definitely had that ‘wow’ factor this morning. Two buckets of water over my windscreen and still there were rogue icebergs refusing to budge. If I lived in the Seven Kingdoms this would totally be a sign that the long winter was coming from the north. Alas, I haven’t even watched season 2 of Game of Thrones yet {I …
A Weather Bomb
One Saturday a mighty Weather Bomb was ‘supposed’ to hit Auckland. In fact the Weather Bomb was SO big the whole North Island was under a gale warning. Oh my! I was quite sure that there would be nothing better to do during a Weather Bomb than to watch movies together and bake yummy treats. Ethan agreed, though it wasn’t …
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