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Two Brits in Aotearoa bringing up three little 'Kiwis'. Our children: Our future. Haere Mai!

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Wordless Sunday: Liquid

July 24, 2011July 24, 2011 BritMumInNZ 12 Comments Alice, photography, Silent Sunday, Sophie

__________________________________________________________ There’s plenty of wet stuff sweeping across New Zealand this weekend, with an icy blast from the south bringing snow to lower levels than have been seen in a long time. For us it has been a rug up warm weekend. Lego, board games, music and dancing. This afternoon there was plenty of delightful […]

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Wordless Sunday: Motion

July 17, 2011July 17, 2011 BritMumInNZ 9 Comments Alice, photography

____________________________________________________ I really wish I’d had my decent camera with me today, as there was so much ‘motion’ at Lyall Bay, with kite-surfers, sea-gulls, airplanes and my girls running on the beach. I had to make do with my phone camera, but still had fun trying to capture the motion. This week’s theme for ‘Wordless […]

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Wordless Sunday – ‘Black and White’

July 10, 2011 BritMumInNZ 9 Comments Charlotte, photography

This week’s theme is ‘Black and White’ and is being hosted at the wonderful blog of Meghan – ‘Exploring Beauty with MNM’s‘.

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Wordless Sunday: Baking

July 3, 2011July 3, 2011 BritMumInNZ 12 Comments Baking, photography, Sophie

Linking up with…. I couldn’t resist posting three photos – too hard to choose my favourite! This week’s ‘Wordless Sunday’ is being hosted at Helen’s wonderful blog, ‘One Trick Pony‘, with the theme ‘Baked’.

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Silent & Wordless Sunday

June 26, 2011June 26, 2011 BritMumInNZ 11 Comments Dan, photography, Sarah

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Wordless Sunday

June 19, 2011 BritMumInNZ 8 Comments Alice, photography

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Silent Sunday

June 5, 2011 BritMumInNZ 14 Comments Dan, Sarah, Silent Sunday

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Welcome to the ramblings & photographs of a British expat Mum living mostly in Wellington (aka *coffee capital of the world*), New Zealand, since 1997.

This blog is a way to preserve sanity whilst raising children, capture the magic in the chaos, and share tales with family, friends, fellow parents and expats.

Along with my British born husband we have been bringing up our three Kiwi born daughters in the land of sheep, kiwi fruit and fine wine, since 2003 (with a brief 16 months living in Santa Barbara, California - where we home educated our daughters). We both first landed on New Zealand soil in 1996 (hubby) and 1997 (myself) - as fresh graduates from the UK wanting to live and work overseas... our 'OE' turned into something a lot longer and more life changing than we could ever have first anticipated!

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