We haven’t been up to anything exciting (for ‘exciting’ read ‘out of Auckland’) recently, but we have some stories to share with you. The great rugby boot hunt New Zealand is a funny place. Rugby is the national game here. Boys, girls, men and women play it, families go and watch it, everyone is intensely proud of the All Blacks. It’s the start of the rugby season here. So when Graeme decided that he needed a new pair of rugby boots to play said game, we assumed that this would be accomplished in the space of a lunchtime. WRONG!! He came home dejected, having visited the three fine sports shops that Henderson shopping centre has to offer, and reported that not one of them had a pair of rugby boots. Football (soccer) boots galore, but none
... read more
