Here’s the latest video from my brother Sam’s band The Phoenix Foundation. Gosh his beard is getting rather bushy! It is an ace video though. How did they get Will to agree to those tiny tiny shorts?

Buy their album Happy Ending! It is a work of GENIUS I tells ya.
While we’re on a YouTube kick, […]

I finally became an auntie yesterday with the arrival of Ned and Din’s baby, formerly known as Peanut, now known as Henry Tiger. We went to meet him in the hospital today and he was so beautiful - well cooked on account of being 10 days late - chubby, blondish and with huge long prehensile […]

My mum has made this fantastic video of her house in Greytown. It looks gorgeous! And a few piccies of Sam & Jessica’s wedding for ya right at the end.

My maman is selling her house in Greytown as she is coming over the Tasman also. It’s an absolutely gorgeous property.
“Longforde” is a spacious 5 bedroom Victorian homestead, encircled by verandahs, on 3 acres of established gardens and pasture with uninterrupted views of the Tararuas. The house is bordered with white roses and green lawns […]

I’ve had a crazy few days - the sadness of losing Nana last Wed, then the joy of the Mardi Gras Parade on Saturday night, the nerves of starting uni today, and now heading off to NZ tomorrow for three days for Nana’s funeral.
Mardi Gras was wonderful. We had tickets to the BGF Glamstand […]

My Nana, Margaret Walker (nee Clothier), passed away peacefully yesterday in Hamilton, New Zealand. She was a grand lady who was passionate about religion, politics and her family. I have so many childhood memories of school holidays spent at her and Poppa’s house in Woodstock Road, Hamilton. She always fed us so well! The most […]

Harry has signed up for preschool martial arts classes. We’re hoping it will teach him a bit of self control and discipline, not to mention having lots of fun kicking things. He’s going to Little Dragons Taekwondo. I went along for the first lesson and it was so cute! A great female instructor who was […]

We’re settling in pretty well in the new land. In some ways it’s like we’ve never been away! The new house is a ramshackle beast, very roomy, set amongst a tangled jungle of weeds and exotic plants. I spotted a blue tongued lizard yesterday near the letter box but it quickly vanished into the undergrowth. […]

Thanks to the efforts of my darling Sydney side of the family, we have a house to go to when we arrive there in a couple of weeks’ time. It is slightly disconcerting that we have seen NO photos or plans of it - the estate agents didn’t put any up. The best I’ve done […]

Hope y’all have a spankingly good festive season, wherever you may be. We are going to my brother’s wedding on Sunday in the Wairarapa and then sliding right on into Christmas. Hopefully everyone will be able to relax a bit once the wedding is past. At the moment the extended family is in rather a […]