Hello all - well I'm back home in the UK safe and sound but no doubt you will be aware that mother nature had one last trick up her sleeve before I left New Zealand! I was packing my bag and my sister texted me telling me about the earthquake in Japan - she said I should hurry home. I told her not to worry, that Japan was quite a way from New Zealand. Then I turned on the New Zealand news and found out that it was the tsunami she was worried about not the earthquake. By the time I went to bed the news was saying that a tsunami alert had been issued for NZ, together with all the other pacific countries, and that the far north was likely to experience any effects at
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