1 September is the first official day of spring and to celebrate this significant milestone in the calendar, the sun has put his hat on and started to shine.The last few days have been glorious with plenty of sun, leaving me a little red face still wearing my winter... Taking up swimming in New Zealand was my antidote to lack of exercise in my last months in the UK. You’d think that it was a harmless enough pastime.You’ve probably heard of road rage or air rage but now there seems to be a new phenomenon, lane rage. That’s... It rained for 13 hours solid yestrday (Saturday) and caused more chaos on roads and rail. Our local train between Wellington and Johnsonville was de-railed close to Khandallah because of a landslip. We saw them cleaning up the debris when we headed off to Kaitoke to... Yeay, I thought spring has arrived at last. But, no the daffodils sprouting up on people’s jackets as I walked to work were because of Daffodil Day.Daff’ Day is always the last Friday of August and the main fundraising vehicle for the New Zealand Cancer... It’s been all change in our house since the UK football season start last weekend. Him indoors has signed up to video highlights on the internet, started scouring the sports channels for programmes and generally getting overly excited about a few men kicking a... 