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Last night was a historic night for New Zealand football. The All Whites defeated Bahrain and qualified for The World Cup.

When we first arrived in New Zealand, 1996/97, football games were pretty much a non-event with small crowds and little atmosphere. Over the years we’ve watched this change and last night [...]

Soccer Saturdays

Soccer has always been an important part of Winter Saturdays for Dan. And he is often at his fittest in the winter. For me, it brings an opportunity to get out and see a different part of the Wellington region (when the weather is reasonable). Recently, we’ve enjoyed a trip to Wainuiomata [...]

Winter Saturday

So much fun on one Winter Saturday…

And in between the crazy balloon chasing, roller blading, soccer and swimming, there was painting, piano playing, games of connect four and dinosaur top trumps. Purrrrrfect!

Rain free Saturday!

News break: It didn’t rain on Saturday! Pitches across Wellington actually had players on them. Children danced on the side-lines, cheering on their sporting hero’s (in our case – Daddy O!)…

Dan only played half a game (as there was such a surplus of players keen to actually get a game in) – but [...]

Urban Sanctuary

This morning I was treated to ‘Green Coffee Body Wrap‘ at the ‘Urban Sanctuary‘ in town. I’m not ashamed to admit to being a little nervous about what the experience would be like; but was very quickly put at ease and found it blissful beyond words. As I listened to gentle nature music [...]

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