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The Staglands
With my sister and her family over from London we all went up the Akatarawa valley on Labour Day to Staglands Wildlife Reserve. Given it is not far from Nana and Grandads house it is pretty amazing...
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Peacock
A highlight of our trip to Staglands was seeing the many peahens and peacocks roaming the property. Back at home today Sabina fetched the P from her Eric Carle alphabet cards, to show me the peacock...
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River mission.
A short stroll for adults but a long mission for little legs, is a river not far from where we are staying. The kids went through the long grass, down a ridge, through more grass, over a ditch, a...
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Waiata river style
Sabina sings a waiata in the river. For almost the entire time she is in there, about 40 minutes. We film her on and off in 5 minute segments – the capacity of our camera and our attention balanced...
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Leaf Rustle Hustle
Week 2 of the school holidays, I tried to rustle the kids into some leaf rustling action. Ngakau ran through the leaf piles (which took a bit of muscle to form I might add), and Paepae refused to let...
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The Donald
Last weekend we went up to Rotorua for a few days. As we took the kids to the lakefront, marae, rainbow springs and thermal wonderlands I recalled the fun holiday times we had there as kids. After a...
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