What an adventure life is. They say, when life gives you lemons, make lemonade. But in all honesty, life/nature never created lemons. Lemons are a man-made fruit! So, I guess you just need to make the most out of …
Wow, another year, and Auckland Marathon now has a Half Marathon wheelchair section!
This was my 11th Marathon, my 4th time completing the Auckland Marathon, so I know the course pretty well now. Doesn’t make me any faster, but …
OHS (Onehunga High School) has an annual awards ceremony, and luckily I get invited along.
Several years ago, I had an epiphany about leaving a legacy at a youth event I was at. I wasn’t attending the event, just …
There are several Park Run‘s around Auckland, this was another one set up by another group of wonderful lovers of running.
It’s great to have people meeting together to catch up, get a little movement, and then have a …
This year was another fantastic event, the people and the energy, the whole place sparkles.
FireUp Events runs this event, the FireFighter Stair Challenge and the Memorial Climb each year. Fire Up events is mostly just run by Scotty and …
Fantastically Generate is really setting the bar high with backing and supporting LiveOcean. For every person doing a mid winter dip between 19th June and 22nd June (and tagging them into a post), Generate graciously donate $500 towards LiveOcean, …
It’s been a while since I was at school, but I went back again, to learn more…
This time, it’s Japan, the language, the culture and the people 🙂 Huge thanks to OHS (Onehunga High School) and their adult evening …
What a fantastic group, they listen and asked some great questions. They even got a little stumped by my story.
For those of you that don’t know The Right Track is a program is all about helping the community help …
Mammoth effort from Mark Liddle (of Hollister) who managed to set up 4 engagements around NZ for me to share with groups. He’s a super star himself, released a children’s book earlier this year (2025) and was also selected …
Each year Firefighters from around the country gather to race up the 1103 steps of the Auckland Sky Tower. The elevators generally only stop working once a year, so it’s lucky this event is on the same day.
LBC are …