Back in Sisibia again after a lovely time in Auckland with Bronwyn and the kids. Daniel and I spent most of our time together in the hotel swimming pool. He is well and truly over his fear of getting his hair wet and enthusiastically dived for stones from the bottom of the pool, helpfully dropped in there by his sister.

Auckland was a pleasant break from Whangarei and Bron and I discussed the merits of buying a property in Devenport to be close to the shops and cafés it seems a little excessive for that though.

So back to Whangarei and what a drama the motorway was packed with traffic and at many a place we were lucky to do three kilometres an hour. I was knackered by the time we got home.