It's a Drama Podcast

The food in New Zealand is not very well documented, is it?

When we made our move to New Zealand from the UK over a decade ago, I was expecting to get here and be faced with a plate full of lamb chop…

In all the time that I've been writing this blog I have never had so many emails from people (mostly from the US) asking me how they can make their dream of moving to New Zealand become a reality. 

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If you are thinking about making a new life in New Zealand and you have a family (with little kids) then I'm going to take a wild guess and say that you are a teeny bit, massively a lot, downright sc…

I'm not entirely sure how long the term unplugging has been a thing.

It used to be (back in the day) that if you were told you to unplug it was because your parents were trying to save money on the l…

Maybe I'm naive.

Or slightly twisted.

But when I found out that there was an organisation called Couchsurfing that would allow me to travel the world with my teenagers (for free) while meeting other …

The funniest thing happened yesterday.

Because it was Father's Day, I said my husband that on this week's podcast episode we should talk about him being a homeschooling dad. Give some tips to all the…

If you are wondering how to balance homeschooling and working at the same time then you are in the right place.

Let's do an elbow bang.

I have been homeschooling for almost ten years, and for the sec…

If you have always dreamt of living in New Zealand, are under 30 years old and have a bit of dosh saved up (enough to get you back to your own country) you can spend a year working in New Zealand by …

In the ten years that we have spent living in New Zealand, my family and I have never been glamping.

Not once.

Let's face it. It's not the sort of thing you want to do with two kids, is it? 

But. Wit…

This week's podcast is brought to you by me (Liz) and my husband Brian.

It is brought to you with love. And with wine and with sushi.

This is a different kind of podcast format from any other that we…

I wish I'd read a post or listened to a Podcast like this when we were looking to move to New Zealand ten years ago.

At least then I would have been prepared. I could have packed a hot water bottle a…

Last week I received this email.

"Hi. I am thinking of moving to New Zealand with my family but I am concerned that as we are moving from the UK, my eldest son (who is 12) will be bored. Could you gi…

If you had to pick just a few, which would you say were the most beautiful places in the World to visit?

This is a question that our family hears a lot when we tell how we spent twelve months travell…

Which were the most beautiful places on earth?

This is the question that everyone asks you when you tell them that you spent twelve months travelling the world with your teenagers.

That, and did they…

What is a tiny house and why would a twenty-six-year-old girl want to invest all of her savings and live in one in New Zealand?

Because she can and they're cool.

That's why.

Could you live in a tiny …

Kids playing video games is so new thing.

Even I, who, according to my kids is a dinosaur who knows nothing - used to play Pacman and space invaders.

So why are parents becoming more and more anxious…

Why do you need a homeschooling schedule? Because without one you will spend your days wandering from one project to another. Feeling extremely busy but accomplishing very little, if anything, at all…

Yesterday, at 12 pm, New Zealand went to level 4 and as such, the entire country is now in lockdown for (a minimum) of four weeks.

Saying it and doing it are two different things.

When you are going …

How old is too old to travel?

You know how when you get to a certain age, and you suddenly start 'playing on it?'

"Ohh I couldn't possibly take the bins out - I'm far too old for that."

Or

"Don't ask…

It's easy for me to bang on about how wonderful New Zealand is - my family and I have been living here for the last ten years and although the country has its pros and cons, I wouldn't want to live a…