Remember WW1 -Be part of our Giant Poppy
Yesterday, I visited the Giant Poppy installation in Auckland’s domain to write a personal message to my great-uncle, Robert Lusk, killed in action at Gallipoli. Having immigrated from Scotland with his mother and four siblings, his life was cut tragically short. Thanks to the creativity of artist, Tony McNeight the world’s biggest poppy is being created to honour all those […]
A world-class dive site at our doorstep – the Poor Knights
For many years now I have been a resort diver and only pull out my dive ticket when I’m off on holiday to some exotic tropical location. But having recently visited the Poor Knights thinking it would be my last dive, it had quite the opposite effect and I now have a renewed vigor for this […]
Have you eaten at Takapuna’s new restaurant Regatta? What did you think?
It’s not often you go out for dinner and have such a bad experience you swear you’ll never go back. Then go back, to use the ‘sorry’ voucher they gave you because you can’t bear to waste it. We recently had this experience at one of Takapuna’s newest restaurants on The Strand, Regatta. Across from the […]