Weekly Wrap Up

Loving I bought a sweet pair of medium sized Stirling silver hoops this week and I LOVE them, they make me feel like my outfit is finished with a little bit ‘o sass! HERE COMES YOUR BAND!!!! Seriously, am I going to spend ALL of our money on concert tickets this year? Unmissable show of 2010 has to be The …

August on the farm

 I can’t remember ever feeling this acutely aware of the change of seasons.  Perhaps it was harder to notice in the suburbs, it was more difficult to hear the birds, you never saw the baby animals or noticed the buds on the huge old trees which have been naked for the past three months.  But the last week has been …

The Drive South

The drive south from Auckland to National Park is one of my favourites in New Zealand, but last weekend we got to see the aftermath of three huge storms in one week! Waikato was pretty much entirely underwater, the flooding was insane and some of the roads pretty treacherous; Oops, the road broke! Follow

Batten down the hatches!

A major storm in the Coral Sea off Australia’s northeast coast is beginning to develop and is heading directly towards New Zealand’s largest city, Auckland. I’m becoming increasingly confident that a major sub-tropical cyclone will affect much of the North Island starting early on Saturday.   While the path of this weekend’s storm still isn’t 100% clear its development certainly is. …