Hello! Sorry it's been a long time since we've written…been a bit busy of late! So….. We finally vacated Auckland after living and working there for 4 months. We moved out of our studio apartment and into a tiny campervan to do the travelling we were craving to do. We had been contemplating staying in Auckland for around 3 years due to a job offer Tom had been given at Auckland Fish Market to take over the Managerial position of the place - unfortunatel...

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MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE! We hope you all had a great day and enjoyed the festivities to the full. There's not much to report on of late. We're still working and are now settled into our new studio apartment. We had our photo shoot last Saturday - was really fun, especially for Abi who had worked out all of her poses weeks in advance and had the photographer impressed!! Tom worked the camera too, but worried he would smudge his makeup - not just on the photo...

So we're back in Auckland. We'll be here for the next four months working our butts off. We've decided to be cliché and get jobs as waiters in restaurants by night so we can pursue our creativity by day. For Abi that's finding gigs to sing at, whether in restaurants, bars or clubs. For me that's writing a novel. Sounds rather romantic doesn't it? We also had our photo shoot for the model and talent agency we're now a part of. Was good fun! Abi love...

So we're about to leave Russell in the Bay of Islands. It has been a wonderful time here, in a very beautiful part of the world. We're staying in an amazing hostel with a Maori lady called Janet. She makes it feel like home, as opposed to the conveyor belt hostel we stayed at in Auckland. She makes you feel so at home, the other day she gave me the keys to her truck and got me (and an American called Phil) to drop her off near the village centre whilst I drov...