Ok, so we arrive at Heathrow at 10.15am tomorrow and hit the ground (perhaps not my best choice of phrase in the circs) running so I nee...

So now I have to eat my words. Here I am in transit at LAX and it's not hateful at all. We've got nearly two hours of kicking our he...

Now while some of us , in the run-up to our family expedition to the Other Hemisphere, have been flat-out toothbrushing mould out of the inn...

It's been raining all day today - so it was pretty much like the other weekend up in Northland where, as the lady at the Kaitaia Visitor...

Also, gearing up: for the big family expedition to England next week, where I will be the only one of us in the aliens queue at immigratio...

Though it's raining and dreary today, it's not cold: last month was the warmest May on record, and June is shaping up to be the sa...

Sigh. While thousands of people in the eastern suburbs of Christchurch wait, understandably less and less patiently, to find out if their ...