For the 23rd time, I am getting ready for the end of a school year. Usually this involves getting the students to do activities outside, like spending the day at Splash Planet (a great place to spend a day) tubing down the Mohaka River (I tried it four years ago and it was crazy, but [...]

It was a whirlwind trip, but a wonderful birthday present from the engineer. We took off on a Sunday and returned to Havelock North eight nights later! In this eight nights, I didn’t take into account the many, many hours we spent on the Air NZ 747 flying to the other side of the world. [...]

Last Monday our Rotary club organised a fundraising evening around the Melbourne Cup running the next day. A small group of Rotarians did an amazing job planning the evening. Tables bid for horses running the next day (the horse we bit on didn’t feature in the prize money) and the money raised will go to [...]