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Eventful Mid year School Holidays


The last school Holidays was an eventful one for us. Arama came down really sick, so on the Tuesday I left him in bed with the kids and headed off to work. Abot 10:30am I had a call, “come home the house is flooded”. I drove as quickly as I could. There was parts of the road on the way that were flooded and slowed the journey a bit. 15 min later I arrived home to see a stream of watrer traveling down our driveway. At the bottom, our family bailing out water – even my sick husband who should have been in bed. Our plaee was wet through.

My close friend (and Boss) came over and took the little ones away,  brought lunch and offered us to go and stay at her parents home next door to her as it was empty. We took her up on that offer. Looie was amazing. She had the fires stoked, dinner cooked, beds made for us, Nothing was a problem. She even called her husband from work to come and help us.

That day was the biggest downpour in Auckland for a long time, Many homes were flooded along with ours. I was so grateful that we were able to have a wonderful friend and her family coming to our aid and giving us so much.

We were offered to stay as long as we needed to. So we did.\\


It was such a treat over the next few weeks, having mains power,  a fireplace, a real oven  and being so close to town!! (and a 2 second walk to work!)  I was so grateful!!

Sorry no photo's of this one... I bet you would have loved to see it but sooo not in the 'photo taking' mood then... :)

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