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Dawes Family in New Zealand: Down Time
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Friday, April 03, 2009. Well we have been a little busy here at Dawes HQ recently creating a new website for our blog - you may have seen the notice on our blog page. We are still working on it and it's become a very interesting little challenge! So why the change? Well after a couple of years of blogging we felt our much loved blog was worth an upgrade. Unfortunately for Blogger they don't really support the dynamic and rich content we want to display, so we are switching to a Wordpress. To read about o...
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Dawes Family in New Zealand: April 2009
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Saturday, April 18, 2009. We have now moved - please check out www.dawes.co.nz. For all the latest updates. Friday, April 03, 2009. Well we have been a little busy here at Dawes HQ recently creating a new website for our blog - you may have seen the notice on our blog page. We are still working on it and it's become a very interesting little challenge! So why the change? If you are still accessing our page by the old http:/ dawesinnz.blogspot.com. This will ensure you see the new site when it is launched.
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Dawes Family in New Zealand: November 2008
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Saturday, November 29, 2008. Summer, Summer, Summertime. It's 7.50am as I write this now. Michael and Bethany have gone off to do their Saturday morning swim thing. Leaving me home alone. Normally I would take advantage of this and have a bit of a lie in but on a day like today that's not going to happen! The 1st of December is officially the start. Then I know for a fact this will become way of life for us now for many months to come. Bethany prepared her list to Santa, it took us nearly an hour to sit ...
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Dawes Family in New Zealand: Bush Fires
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009. Yet one thing we can't escape being on the other side of the world are the issues that affect our every day lives. Things like earthquakes, landslides and flooding are all every day occurrences here in New Zealand, but worse still on the hot days we are plagued by bush fires. Of course most of you will know about the horrific happenings in Australia. Our neighbour. The unbelievable bush fires that ripped through most of Victoria. This story from April 2007. We hate our neighbours'.
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Dawes Family in New Zealand: Meeting John Grogan
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009. Does the name sound familiar? Well it should do, Mr John Grogan. Is the author of Marley and Me. You may know it better from the blockbuster movie. That is showing in the cinema right now. Afterwards we got to meet John and have a little chat whilst he signed his new book which I had just bought that evening. I was also cheeky enough to ask for a photo! It was truly inspirational listening to John. He was an ordinary man (and still is of course! Who wrote a story from the heart...
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Dawes Family in New Zealand: Moving On
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Saturday, April 18, 2009. We have now moved - please check out www.dawes.co.nz. For all the latest updates. Dawes, a family of 3 from the UK who emigrated to New Zealand in 2006. Denver is our SPCA 'lucky dip' pup, the newest member of the Dawes family. Taking New Zealand by storm we have been engulfed with excitement, laughed with joy and cried in pain whilst all in the search of a better life. We can now honestly say we have found it! Want to get in touch? We would love to hear from you!
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Dawes Family in New Zealand: 105 Today!!
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Thursday, March 19, 2009. Gorgeous yellow Labrador came into the world 15 years ago today and she was named Poppy. Poppy could tell some stories I bet! In the 15 years she has been part of so much, she has watched Michael and Helen grow, leave home and have children of their own. She has watched her loving 'mother' Lynn grow beautifully older and never leave her side - Poppy has probably been told the most interesting secrets. Happy 15th Birthday Poppy! Want to get in touch? To read about our blog as fea...
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Dawes Family in New Zealand: December 2008
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Monday, December 29, 2008. This year we ventured intrepidly into Christmas, we were naturally excited to be in our first Kiwi home and to have Denver by our side, yet the feeling of actual Christmas was at the very least hidden. I absolutely adore the fact we have the most beautiful weather, who can beat that summer feeling, having sand in your toes, the smell of BBQ's, yet the actual 'feeling' of Christmas that we are used to is now long gone! On Boxing Day we were kindly invited to Stef and Rich's.
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Dawes Family in New Zealand: A Rare Occurance
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Friday, March 20, 2009. Yesterday Michael had a day off work which meant a whole 6 hours together of free time without Bethany! Gone are the BC (before children) days when all we needed to worry about was maybe eating at some point in the day. Our day started with getting organised for school, washing, hoovering and doing general chores. After breakfast we donned our walking boots and headed to the car, onwards for a forest trek! Just over the hill of Wainuiomata. So instead of heading home straight away...
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Dawes Family in New Zealand: Weekend Walkies
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Thursday, March 26, 2009. Once again we popped on our walking shoes and headed out. The weather wasn't the greatest and we did most of the walk under our hoods. The choice of walk this time being a place called Tunnel Gully. I had heard about it from my wonderful friend Julie. Who takes her boys ('boys' being Fortnum and Mason. Some of the trees we saw were amazing, they were huge! As we headed into a clearing we smelt something like never before, rows upon rows of Eucalyptus trees. It was just wonderful!
