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Today was mostly about getting things ready for the Tearfund part of the trip. Both at home and here in NZ we’d bought items for our sponsored children and also for the centres. I was really keen to get them into their bags, to make sure we had enough
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Today started off like most have so far, a slow start. I seem to sleep in a bit more than Christine does, I figure with the schedule that is coming up the extra sleep now is gonna help! Today in general is a bit of a relax day again. We
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For the last month or so Christians around the world have been going thru the rhythms of remembering the Easter story. At the church that I go to, Windsor park there have been lots of opportunities, and resources which all comes to a conclusion on Easter Sunday, where we celebrate
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Hello! It seems I am not very good at maintaining a blog, as once again 3 months have past. I know we say it every year, but its crazy how fast time goes, and it feels like it's going faster as I get older! - It feels like
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2024 was an interesting year - there was a lot going on both at home, and around the world. I guess every year there is a lot going on, and every year we hope/wish a better year the following year - but when we look back at each year,
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November and December are always busy months for us, with lots of things going on. There are two birthdays, our wedding anniversary and of course Christmas, to mention a few. NOVEMBER Christine's Birthday We both took the day off for Christine's birthday, so that we could
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Well time has flown, and I've not gotten around to writing even a monthly blog post! Here is a quick recap of September and October of this year! SEPTEMBER Fathers Day 1st Sept was Fathers Day, so Nathan and Christine took me out for dinner. We went to
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January I received an odd alert on my iPhone: Low Walking Steadiness - Your walking steadiness is low and you may have an increased risk of falling in the next 12 months. Strange…. February On February 7th I was sitting at my desk in the office on a work call
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Well, its the last day of May already!! I feel like the last few weeks have gone by really fast. Work has been extremely busy as we are working to onboard some new publications that we have recently purchased. This is a fairly laborious repetitive process and takes a long
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On Thursday 16h May I got to go to the "For King and Country" concert in Auckland at the eventfinda stadium here in the North Shore. For King & Country is a duo who emigrated to the United States as children, and grew up in the USA. They
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The 2nd week of May started off as any normal working week would. I worked from the offica ll week - it was a fairly busy week (as most weeks are). Nathan is doing business studies at school and they need some capital to start their businesses, so we have
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On Sunday 5th May Grant, myself, Emma, Hannah, Meg and Jan got to share some of what we had seen, thought and learnt. It was suggested that we could use 2-3 photos and speak to those. The video below is the recorded version of the service. We went in earlier
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At work we have a daily standup, and I hosted it on Friday 3rd May. As part of this I had 3-4 mins to chat about my trip... I think I took a bit longer than anticipated 😂 Since sharing my story I have been able to chat to several people
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The past few weeks has been a bit of a blur - "normal life" in Auckland for me is fairly fast paced, and (perhaps cos I got to escape my normal for 3 weeks) seems to be flying past quicker than ever. Its been two weeks since I
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Monday 15th April 2024 After being home for a day and a half, Christine, Nathan Holly and I are driving down to Masterton in the Wairarapa today. The drive is approx 8 hours, but we stop off a few times, so it generally takes us around 10 hours. If you
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Today we had to head to the airport around 12.30. After breakfast we had a swim in the pools, then we headed back to our rooms for final re-packing of our things back into our suitcases. We also went for a final walk around nearby, and had the opportunity