Well well well! Today i have had the most fantastic day to end the weekend with! And - oh its sunny too! I have been training all along this trip for the auckland marathon (half marathon section, and today i ran it! I was up at 4.30am to get up in time to catch the ferry over to the north shore and be at the start line for 6.30am! I have also had a really great week. I flew up here to auckland on tuesday (28th oct), arrived late afternoon and by the time i had ch...

Well i sit down to write this at the end of a really great day! After some seriously WINDY weather for the early part of this week - we have had the loveliest weathe today. The sun was out and we had a clear day yesterday too but it was still quite cold - today however the sun was out and it was warm - although apparently not as warm as the sun that come to welligton in the summer! I cant wait! It is the school holidays so i have time off swimming teaching....

No no no no!!! Time is going too too fast! It can't be 26 days since i last got chance to pour my thoughts out! Today is another sunny day! I have just finished work and got home for some lunch. There is no one home, o i think i have the perfect opportunity to catch upon a few things! J has just got home from Germany this week. He was in Aachen for the Diving junior world champs. Its a funny thing - i really really missed him - he was only away for 12 days - noth...

Well - its been another fair while since i sat down and wrote anything here! I am struggling a bit at the moment. I am thinking a lot about everyone i love back in the UK, but i dont want to go back! I havent been in touch as much over the last 2 months and i really hope so much that no one thinks i have forgotten about them - it is on my mind a lot. I am till happy here - and have no reason not to be - this morning i went for a run just after the sun had come up...

Well.........it has been a little while since i wrote in here. That makes me feel a little sad. But the my first 6 weeks in New Zealand are rolling into my 7th. Things are good - things are really good!! I have been working quite a lot and will be over the next 8 weeks. I am coaching diving with my favourite big brother; James; which is great and i have taken on a job with Wellington City Couincil as an 'aquatic education instructor'. I am now teaching swimming t...