A change of direction for a wee bit on my blog. Something is about to change for me in a fairly dramatic way… When I was a child I had a bicycle accident riding down the road to my friend’s house. I can still vividly remember right to the moment I hit the letterbox that…
There’s no place like home…
Delving into my life as an expat I think it’s best to start with where we have come from. We’ve been expats for eighteen months now. Living in the hot, humid and sometimes VERY wet Bangkok. Overall we LOVE this crazy city, but what it does highlight is what we miss and love about our…
3 Months on… hip replacement
A catch up on 3 months of recovery post a hip replacement caused by Perthes disease and osteoarthritis.
A few of my favourite things… Auckland
Coming back to Auckland after a break gives me a fresh perspective and fresh eyes. Some things have changed, and Auckland is growing, in population, and up as a city. Here are a few of my favourite things about Auckland. So many people pass through Auckland on to the more glamorous South Island but she’s…
It’s a woman’s world – New Zealand
For the first time ever I took ten minutes out of my life to watch an interview with a New Zealand prime minister. Jacinda Ardern is making headlines around the world on being only one of two world leaders to give birth whilst in office. By chance she gave birth on the birthday of the…
Big girl breath
Repatriation is a thing. And it’s a real thing. This is the second time I’ve been through it. The first on return from London. We were at a different stage of life, no kids, no real jobs and landing back to parents. It was tough. Gone were the flats, the parties and the travel. Hello…
And home we arrive
It’s been a few weeks of leaving, travelling, arriving and general unsettled-ness. And it’s not quite over. In about 2 weeks we’ll be back in our home, with our belongings, but still no cat (in New York till July). On arriving back to Auckland we arrived in various states of run-down. Kids had had fevers…
While they pack…
While our home is being packed in the last days in Bangkok it’s time to reflect on what has made this place so special.
It’s the little things
As we draw up to two years in Bangkok I get the opportunity to reflect and notice the things I do appreciate by being here. Expat life is a privileged bubble and a fairly easy life (especially those of us in the supporting role). Once the initial set up and finding your tribe is done…
And it’s time…
Much as we’d hoped we could extend our stay in Bangkok and the expat life another year our contract comes to an end in January. So it is we start the countdown to heading home to New Zealand. It’s not without mixed feelings for everyone in the family. Bangkok has been home for nearly two…
Exploring
Any city deserves to be explored. There is an energy, life and story that is waiting to be discovered. I’ve lived in London and one of the biggest joys was catching the underground to an unknown area, usually on a Sunday, and simply walking around. Gazing at the buildings, getting ‘lost’ and maybe learning along…
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