Sundays

This is a typical Sunday! We get up early, luckily the twins sleep through, Becca is brilliant and has them on a routine inspired by Gina Ford and we also believe that the 2 weeks they were in the special baby unit helped them into a strict routine. While Becca did "stuff" I took Millie to the swings in Windsor Reserve
Devonport and then picked up some bits in Foodtown If you follow the link you get to the on line shopping website, It is worth having a look at the prices, living in NZ is not cheap!
If you have a look at the Map by clicking on Devonport and follow Lake Road North you will notice that there is basically one Road in and out of Devonport. This is the main disadvantage of an other wise great suburb. Owing to an event at the football field it took me an hour and a half to get home, this was not great on the domestic harmony front!

We then had a quick walk along Takapuna Beach with the buggy and Millie in her wellies. It was spitting with rain but the temperature was still in the 60's. Millie splashed around in the puddles and got soaked, but we didn't have to rush home fearing chills no we went to have coffee and feed the babies in the excellent Takapuna Mall and a quick look around for birthday presents for Millie's 3rd next week.

I'll get into the cost of Books in New Zealand later just be aware that the simplest way of getting an idea of the price of things in NZ is to forget currency conversion. If you are earning NZ dollars just call everything pounds. ie your wage could be say 60,000NZD but then imagine it as 60,000GBP but then think about paying £34 for a childrens book. If you earned 60k in the UK you would only pay £5.99 for the average under 3 kids books, yes it hurts. Here's the best equivalent of WH Smiths its called Whitcoulls now imagine those dollar signs are pound signs!!!

Then it was home for tea, on Sunday there's not much on the TV, CSI and Jerrico are my picks. Although I record them on My Sky the Nz equivalent of the UK's Sky Plus. My Sky has not been around for very long, the demo really says it all. You also should look at TVNZ's site and the TV listings here - TVNOW You'll get a good idea of what to expect. I'm not suggesting you base a decision to emigrate to NZ on the TV listings but you'll need to acclimatise to the change.

And then I wrote my blog... night!