The Big Move - NI to NZ

I am stopping this blog. It was never meant to go on as long as it has -- my intention was to document the emigration process, which has bee...

This day last year I (along with everybody else in Canterbury) was blissfully unaware of how life was about to change for all of us. My husb...

For the last few months I have been doing my nails with CND Shellac. It's a gel hybrid polish, which means that it has to be cured with ...

The first official government report on the state of the city's land came out today. It doesn't cover everywhere (some places haven...

I have been meaning to update this blog anyway, with non-earthquake stuff, but that can wait for another day. Yesterday we had two major a...

A few people have asked me how we're coping after the earthquake. I feel like a bit of a fraud when they ask, because honestly we haven...

On a personal level: We got electricity and water back a few days after the earthquake. Going to the toilet in a plastic bag became the new...