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It’s been a decade since I began blogging. What started as a way to document my student exchange has become one of my favourite things…

The end of an era often brings nostalgia and sadness, but what if we we chose to be optimistic for the new chapter that is beginning?

There is no other time like the New Year when you get such a sense of one chapter ending and another beginning.

Welcome to a little window into my soul. In this post I answer eight random, but interesting questions as a way to get to know me better.

It’s been 697 days since I last published a piece of writing online. So why did I stop? And why have I started again? If you had read my...

“Change is as good as a rest.” Hands up if you’ve heard that phrase many times before. *Raises hand* In my experience us humans tend to...

Credit: Olympics I love the Olympics. ​I was the kid who got up at 5am before school every day to watch the Olympics when they were held...

When I first wrote a blog nearly seven years ago I had no idea how much I would love it. Unlike writing my university assignments at the...

Dear England, Here’s your warning: I’m about to be an armchair expert. It’s not something I normally like to do, but I think your rugby...

So I’d been planning (in my head) to write my next piece on gratitude – something that I think is highly important to practice, and...

They say that there’s no place like home. And if that’s true there is definitely no place like home at Christmas. I can’t tell you how...

I often find myself comparing certain aspects of life in the UK to life in NZ, but something I’d never considered was a comparison...

As is typical of me, I like to analyse every situation to within an inch of its life and I’ve been doing a bit of thinking lately, about...

I often think that I grew up in the best era. And I’m not talking about as a ‘millennial’ but as a ‘90s kid’. I’ve had this conversation...

Forrest Gump’s mother was definitely on to something when she said “Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to...