So here I am, sitting at the kitchen table in a chalet on a clifftop over looking a windswept and very beautiful Karioitahi Bay, approximately an hour's drive south-west of Auckland.

The Other Harf's done well.

Tomorrow, on the occasion of my 40th birthday, it's a big sleep-in, followed by a walk along the beach, some tiki-touring round Waiuku and Pukekohe, then dinner at an award winning restaurant, a mere minute's walk from this here chalet.

I am a very lucky lady indeed.

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    your hostess Fi (40, just) and currently residing in a big old house in rural Northland, New Zealand with my lovely English husband (known round here as the Other Harf), our daughter (currently Miss 9.10) and a menagarie of orphaned animals and over-extended relatives. Have mercy.

This month I am mostly appreciating jonquils...


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