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Thank you dear family! What an amazing Mother’s Day!

May 8, 2011May 8, 2011 BritMumInNZ 3 Comments Special Days

Thank you for a special greeting when I was woken at 5am this morning (all happy sounds – but Alice and Sophie decided to greet the day early!). Thank you Charlotte, for your amazing recipe – which I waited patiently all day to taste! Thank you Sophie for the beautiful ‘bouquet’ picture you so beautifully […]

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The day Vegemitevix came for a BBQ

January 7, 2011January 8, 2011 BritMumInNZ 4 Comments Sarah, School hols

It was with great excitement that the day finally arrived when Vegemitevix, Kiwi expat blogger extraordinaire, and her ‘Englishman’, came to our house for dinner! Well, dinner sounds way too grand… it was a hastily thrown together BBQ – with the potatoes nearly forgotten about and the salad pre-bought from the supermarket and chucked in […]

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Showing some visitors to Welly a good time

November 9, 2010 BritMumInNZ 8 Comments Sarah

When Sophie asked what we’d be doing after Kindi on Monday I told her, ‘We’re going to be showing some visitors to Wellington around.’ Sophie likes to know all the facts and was quick to ask,’Who?’. When I told her I’d never met the visitors before she practically gasped, ‘Strangers?!’ and then told all the […]

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