Thought I'd stop by and say hello. It's been quite a while!

A series of impulsive decisions and general chaos have lead the hubby and myself back home to New Zealand, where, to the delight of our families, we've resolved to put down roots and generally do what normal people do. Y'know, dog, car, working fridge... the usual sort of normal stuff.

Unfortunately, we've found ourselves in the thick of 10 to 12-hour work days and an endless stream of Things To Do. Doesn't leave...

I have been many things in my life. Of course I have been a child and an adult, and that heady, fathomless thing in between. But there has been so much more. I have been girlfriend, lover and wife; I have been friend and enemy, stranger and kin. I have been student and teacher both, I have been the coach and one of the team. I have been the little fish in the big pond, and the big fish in the little pond, more times than I can count. I have been daughter, sister and cousin. I have been both one...

Hail and well met.

Blogging is pretty new to me, so if you've been unfortunate enough to stumble across this, you might just wanna leave now :P

Figured I'd use this space to replace what has traditionally been my 'letters to myself'. Back in the days when I first put pen to paper with the naive intention of becoming a novelist, I wrote on paper. Scribbled, to be precise. Notes everywhere. Those multi-coloured memo pads were among my favorites, I had hundreds of the little...