Kia Ora...Today I've managed to not only get everything organised to send the newsletter out, I've also gotten my first Covid jab.When your writing style doesn't involve plotting out every last bit of the story before writing, it can turn the whole p...

Kia Ora...We've switched to daylight savings time here in NZ which always heralds the beginning of warmer weather as the days get longer. It also means that we're heading into the final term of school before it breaks for the summer...or for my young...

Kia Ora...Spring is here... though in all honesty we haven't really had a winter in New Zealand this year for which my power bill is grateful as I ended up only running my heater for two months instead of closer to five... yep, it's been warm.I'd lik...

Kia Ora....As I'm writing this my part of New Zealand is in lockdown Level 3 - basically Level 4 but with takeaways - but hopefully we'll drop down to Level 2 soon which means the kids can go back to school... and by kids I mean one high school age,...

Kia Ora....Going into lockdown is always stressful and maybe more so when your country hasn't experienced too many of them as it can be easy to forget the dangers of the pandemic that lurk outside of your country's borders. It has meant my lovely day...

Kia Ora...Just flicking out a quick apology to everyone about the wall of html/missing image that appears at the top of the last email.... There was supposed to be an image, but I'm guessing either something went wonky or the image file might have be...

Kia Ora...Have you been watching the Olympics? Relying on free to air coverage has meant that I haven't watched as much of the Olympics as I'd have liked. The coverage was pretty poor and too much time listening to pointless in-studio interviews... s...

Kia Ora...The Olympics are a must watch event in my household and over the next two weeks it will be playing in the background while I work. My favourite events are Gymnastics (all disciplines), Track and Field, Swimming, Diving... well, I'll pretty...

Kia Ora...Every time I sit down to write my newsletter I promise myself that next time I'll be more organised... that'll I know exactly what I want to talk about; that all my graphics will be sorted, and that anything else I need to add will be ready...

Kia Ora...Now that we've tipped over into the second half of the year, it feels like time is running out to achieve anything. There's still a good six months, plenty of time to get words written on many of the projects I have lined up and yet it neve...