Awards, independents and Auckland
Auckland - three weather extremes in an hour, traffic mayhem even on a Sunday, every second retail outlet an eatery. I had a full schedule of meetings on Friday (the National Writers Forum, 17-18 September this year is going to be a cracker!), caught up with old friends on Saturday, walked from Beachlands to Maraetai and back on Sunday morning and attended the Children's Literature Foundation AGM and Awards Ceremony on Sunday afternoon. I'd learned by tweet as I walked off st
