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Halloween with a difference with Robbie Williams in Wellington!

Posted on November 18, 2015November 18, 2015 by BritMumInNZ

For the first year, in many years of parenting, hubby and I got to do our own thing on Halloween this year! Having spent the Saturday decorating the drive-way with cobwebs and chalk drawings… My hubby and I left the children (two of them, the third was staying over night at a friend’s house) with…

Prose for Thought – Halloween

Posted on October 31, 2014 by BritMumInNZ

Halloween last year was as it should be – in the northern hemisphere, in autumn (albeit living in Santa Barbara, California, wasn’t quite the northern hemisphere type of Halloween I remembered from my apple bobbing youth growing up in England, UK). It was lovely to be living somewhere where pumpkins were plentiful (as we experienced…

A week in reflection: Moments to love & be thankful for.

Posted on November 9, 2013September 12, 2014 by BritMumInNZ

It’s Friday. The weekend is nearly here, which means family time with the man of the house. It’s so much easier to keep all three of our children entertained when he’s at home. As much as I am enjoying having the girls all at home, I do have moments of feeling like I’m being held…

The Photo Gallery | Halloween

Posted on October 30, 2013 by BritMumInNZ

We are in sunny Santa Barbara, California, this Autumn. It’s the first time in well over a decade, certainly in my children’s lives, that we’ve been in the northern hemisphere for Halloween. It always irked me that New Zealand chose to follow the commercial line of Halloween, and ‘do it’ on 31 October (in the…

Apple bobbing Halloween in the southern hemisphere

Posted on October 31, 2011 by BritMumInNZ

Our Bright Light Party did the trick in welcoming the sunshine and giving us a hint of summer to shortly come. Apple bobbing is a whole lot of fun when the weather is warm enough to do it in the garden like this…. Sophie enthusiastically got bobbing too, with great results! And Happy Halloween 2011…

A blaze of light hit home this weekend

Posted on October 30, 2011 by BritMumInNZ

A well overdue BBQ dazzled in a blaze of light here on Saturday night. It was the first non-children’s Birthday party we’ve had since Alice was born (she’s coming up two in February). With summer officially a month away, and our spring being a seasonally typical windy and wet one, we sent out the invitations…

Halloween in NZ at Beltane time: Trying to please everyone

Posted on October 11, 2011October 11, 2011 by BritMumInNZ

Here in our home it’s the second week of our spring break school holidays. It’s rained for most of it and the forecast is for yet more rain 🙁 We have escaped into the fresh air whenever possible, but the rain definitely makes us all feel a bit cranky and fed up (especially when the…

Happy Beltane & Samhain

Posted on October 31, 2010October 31, 2010 by BritMumInNZ

To all our family and friends, north and south, we wish you very happy greetings of the season. Gather the harvest in the north and plant the seedlings in the south. Love & light x These little ghosties took over my kitchen middle of last week… And after Alice’s nap this morning I came downstairs…

Happy Beltane to the Southern Hemisphere…

Posted on November 1, 2009November 1, 2009 by BritMumInNZ

or Samhain, popularly known as ‘Halloween’, to all those in the Northern Hemisphere. Unfortunately, the majority of folk in New Zealand seem to lose sight of what season we’re in on 31 October every year and follow the Halloween celebrations. However, up in Northland ‘The First Church of Ancient Crafts‘ has the right idea with…

Days like these remind me why I heart Wellington

Posted on October 31, 2008September 11, 2010 by BritMumInNZ

There are always ups and downs and I have them aplenty. It wouldn’t matter where I lived, I’d still have them. Sometimes, it’s easier to blame where I am for the downs and not ‘where I’m at’ personally. Often, it’s ‘me’ that’s the problem and not the surrounds. Though when a cold southerly batters our…

Did you feel the magic?

Posted on October 31, 2007November 28, 2009 by BritMumInNZ

The division between the spiritual and material worlds softened this evening and the magic was powerful over Capital E; in Wellington’s Civic Square. There was a strong sense that King Arthur was amongst us as we journeyed into the medieval castle. It was with trepidation that we ventured into the Medieval Horror Hall and it…

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