Israel Dagg is my new All Black hero. After last night’s world cup game against France, Israel played a wonderful game and got two tries. He defended brilliantly and helped me get over the incredible nerves I had in the first 15 minutes. I remember the 2007 quarter final SO well! After our first 3 tries, [...]

Waipatiki is a beach north of Napier (but in the Hastings District) on the road to Gisborne. We are hoping to spend lots of time there in the years to come. It is a golden sand beach, with no telephone service and no shops! As you can imagine, it is unspoiled and relatively undeveloped. It [...]

I’m so looking forward to the rugby world cup, being a rugby fanatic from firstly my childhood, being the second daughter of a rugby-playing father (who captained the Poverty-Bay rugby team in the 1940s) and married to a rugby player for 29 years. I have watched every rugby world cup final since the first in [...]