Having spent most of last week travelling, I have finally had time to myself, so I spent an hour or so at the gym this morning and gardened for the rest of the day. I have Christmas mince pies to make and some shopping for the engineer to do. Last Wednesday, my son Stafford graduated [...]

It is important, to maintain quality of life, to stay fit as long as possible. We, as a family try to do this, as many different ways as possible, to stop letting exercise become monotonous and boring. As you can see, my family enjoy exercising on beautiful HB summer days.

Many, many thanks to the Smith Family, owners of Hastings Pak n Save who, today, announced their sponsorship of the RSP netball courts. What a wonderful, generous thing to do for the women of Hawkes Bay.  The council voted at the last council meeting of the year, to progress money to develop 18 new netball courts at [...]

Last weekend The Engineer and I drove over to Ohakune to attempt the Tongariro crossing. We were joined by my older sister Kerry and brother-in-law Dave (fitness gurus) who drove up from Wellington. We got up at the crack of dawn on Saturday to find the weather had deteriorated and it was raining and windy. [...]