Things I am loving this month: December

Things I am loving this last few weeks: Christmas Eve at the Cinema Christmas Fiji Christmas Eve at the Cinema A new Irish film came out on pre-release this month; The Banshees of Inisherin. We went to see it on Christmas Eve. IMDB says this: Two lifelong friends find themselves at an impasse when oneContinueContinue reading “Things I am loving this month: December”

Things I am loving this month: November

Things I am loving this last few weeks: Big Bang Adventure Race Adulting two 13 year olds for an entire weekend Auckland Big Bang Adventure Race As James and I have been doing the Dirt Duathlons, we thought we’d go for the big one next: The Big Bang Adventure Race! It’s a longer race thanContinueContinue reading “Things I am loving this month: November”

Big Bang Adventure Race

The Big Bang Adventure Race is the ‘big’ race of the year. Funny that! Anyone that has been following me or my blog for a while will know that this year James and I have been doing ‘adventure’ races. After three ‘Dirt Duathlons’ (and the Spirited Women for me) we’re now feeling ready for somethingContinueContinue reading “Big Bang Adventure Race”

Things I am loving this month: October

Things I am loving this last few weeks: Spirited Woman Adventure Race Dinner Club(s) Birthdays New roles Spirited Woman Adventure Race AGES and ages ago I organised a team to take part in the Spirited Woman adventure race…and then COVID happened again and we got postponed and rescheduled and readjusted. But this month we actuallyContinueContinue reading “Things I am loving this month: October”

Spirited Women Adventure Race

The Spirited Women Adventure Race finally happened! After months of prep, COVID level changes, postponements, and not a lot of training, we did it…we finished. We were never going to be the fastest team, but we did it and I am happy! James and I drove up on the Thursday and spent time when weContinueContinue reading “Spirited Women Adventure Race”

Things I am loving this month: September

Things I am loving this last few weeks: Photographing Remutaka Roller Derby Les Miserables at the St. James Theatre in Wellington Studio Sasada Concert at the Little Theatre in Lower Hutt Aston Norwood at night Phew, what a busy month!!! Photographing Remutaka Roller Derby As I’m trying to get as much photography practice in asContinueContinue reading “Things I am loving this month: September”

Photography: Remutaka Roller Derby

This weekend I spent my Saturday evening taking sport photography, something that I’ve not had much practice in. As I’m trying to get as much photography practice in as possible, I leapt at the change to take photos at the most recent Roller Derby bout between my local team, Remutaka Roller Derby, and Swamp CityContinueContinue reading “Photography: Remutaka Roller Derby”

Things I am loving this month: August

Things I am loving this last few weeks: Dinner Club at our friends new house 🙂 Dirt Duathlon 3: In the dark! Dinner Club We regularly do a rotating dinner club with two other couples: Tim and Roz, and John and Cecelia. John and Cecelia have just bought a new house, so dinner club thisContinueContinue reading “Things I am loving this month: August”

Dirt Duathlon 3

This weekend James and I took part in our third Dirt Duathlon in the dark. It started at 7pm and we kept going until about 11:30pm. Having done a few of these already we were much better organised, but as we’d only done them during the day so far there was another element that weContinueContinue reading “Dirt Duathlon 3”

8 Week Challenge

The Project Managers at work do an ‘8 Week Challenge’ every year. This year a few of us in the Learning Design team are joining in. The 8 Week Challenge is generally supposed to be a time where you try to better yourself…whether thats mentally or physically, it doesn’t matter, you just try to beContinueContinue reading “8 Week Challenge”