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The beginning of August has been busy! Luca has made a decision for High School ….Logan Park The setting is awesome as you can see. Luca came out to the information day saying “I love it, its awesome, wish I could go now!” None of the others had this effect on him, so the choice …

Every year Dunedin holds a Science Festival that coincides with the winter school holidays, (we are just heading into the second holiday week), it is perfect timing and Luca loves it, so many cool activities, we have tried to get to as many as we can… https://scifest.org.nz/ After this, we had a lovely meal out …

Last night was the Midwinter Carnival, part of the main street in Dunedin shut down and festivities started at 3pm and went on into the night. The kids loved it, we met my brother and his family there. Lots of food…. Lantern making…. and general fun was had by all 🙂 Last weekend it was …

The outside decoration has begun, we have always named our places and this is no exception, seemed fitting 🙂 Luca even has a couple of “flatmates” , they are gorgeous!!!!!!!!!!! Long weekend here, 4 days off for both me and Luca, wahoo! The last 3 weeks have flown by and been very busy so it …

On the last day of the school holidays I was going to give Luca a hair trim, turns out that he had been contemplating a change for a while and this is what it turned into… It makes him look so grown up! He loves it and so do we! So school is back and …

We made the most of last weekend and the end of the warm weather to hit the beach, taking Aria and Ted with us. It was a fun day, the kids even found a penguin with some babies. We took a quick look then left her in peace. Rich had found some maple syrup on …

The school holidays begin today and we have woken to a lovely sunny crisp morning. Rich and I find with the school year being cut into 4 terms that it goes by extremely fast! We have had quite a bit of rain lately so the clear day a nice change, although we do need more …

Happy Easter everyone! It is early morning here on Good Friday, I woke early and opened the door, the wind was warm and rain ,(which we desperately need), was in the air, as I write this raindrops have begun as you can see on our kitchen window above. It is very cozy in here, everyone …

The fire pit area has been getting lots of use of late. Fall is here and the days for the most part have been lovely. Yesterday we went hiking, a long one, 5 hours. The forecast was for rain but it did not come and was a spectacular day. We have a friends daughter staying …

We made the most of the awesome weather last weekend and headed to the Caitlins. This is a couple of hours south of us on the east coast. It has been many, many years since I had been there and I have only vague recollections of it. So, so beautiful! First stop the famous lighthouse …