A change of plan!

So..... I've come to realise that home really is, as they say, where the heart is! My heart just happens to be 12,000km from my current location, in a little slice of paradise called 'Orewa'! So with much consideration, I am returning 'home' for now, instead of going on my travels. I still really want to travel to all the places I'd planned, but I guess now just isn't the right time. Maybe in years to come I will bugger off around the world with someone, but for now, I just want to go 'home'! 

It's been great seeing people and catching up with old friends from years and years ago. It was also very nice to of spent some time with my cousins little girl Lois! Who knows when I will next see her again! Either way one things for sure, she won't remember me in the slightest, but I will always remember her and hearing 'Hello fishy', 'Baps' and 'Dog, Woof Woof!' every time I visited! Maybe one day I can remind her of that and embarrass her! :-)

Anyway, that is all for now, just thought I'd release some of my thoughts and goings on onto the internet!

Toodaloo!

Doom and Gloom!

So here I am, sat in my bedroom at 57 Duncan Road, cold, bored and miserable, thinking of the glorious sunshine and weather back 'HOME' in Auckland!!

Today marks my one week anniversary of being back here in this 'hell hole'! Tonight whilst driving back from South Wigston I past a group of about 20 kids, none of which where older than 15, smoking, drinking and just generally causing trouble. It made me think of what those kids would be doing if they were living elsewhere, for instance NZ?! Is it any wander this country is in the dire state that it is, when the only thing for kids to do at night time, is either stay at home where they feel safe, or run the risk of being 'just another statistic' on the countries growing list of youth fatalities!  I know I was no saint when I was their age, but I was never doing the things they're doing!!

Lets just hope these next 7 months go by as quick as the past 7 days!!!!