

Life stories
Sometimes life doesn't go according to plan. Sometimes you get the hard stuff. The last month of 2016 was a challenging one for our whānau, culminating in a family funeral two days before Christmas. But that's not really where it culminated; in reality the whole of that exhausting, emotional and uncertain time was the culmination - of a life, of an era, of the threads that bring us and hold us together. We farewelled my husband's mother with words and memories and emotion. We