Having waited seven and a half months and wondering whether we’d be able to get to Adelaide for the birth of our first grandchild, we are...

Last night we sat down to a special dinner put on at the new Park Hyatt hotel by friends. A group of us has been friends for 24 years and...

Hello from sunny Tauranga and Mt Maunganui... well, it is sunny today but we’ve had two days of pouring, miserable rain and it was...

Given our interest in settling in Havelock North, friend Ginny has driven me all over to give me a good view of what is on offer here and...

I’ve swapped luxury living in Auckland for luxury living in Havelock North, staying with our old friends, Ginny and Dave. I’ve got her...

It’s such a privilege to be back in our home country of New Zealand and to have the freedom to be out and about and meet up with old...

It’s luxury staying at my sister, Jill’s house. Her home should be photographed for House and Garden it is so beautifully furnished. Plus...

First NZ barista coffee. Cheers NZ, thanks for welcoming us home. Big shout out to NZ Army and The Pullman Hotel staff and security for...

********************** WOO HOO! ****************** Thanks to all of you, I have just ticked over a very heartening sales milestone of My...

And all is well, thank you. We’re perfectly fine. The hotel kindly lent us a Nespresso machine and I added pods to our online shopping...

Good news. Didn’t really expect anything else... but then again one of us could have been asymptomatic. What do most Kiwis want when they...

My right nostril still feels a little weird after my Covid swab today. Is that too much information??? I feel like I can whistle through...