This afternoon, we went into Auckland to Jacqueline's work to see her offices's RWC celebrations (all the banks had been assigned countries and they had to decorate them accordingly!) and it was amazing - every team had really gone to town on the decorations and the whole office seemed to have really taken on the spirit of the event and put loads of effort into it! My favourite ones were Wales (of course!) and Japan and England (take a look at the photos - Offi...

Well we made it, just! Finally arrived in Auckland (I think) but the flights were a shocker. First leg of the journey was from Heathrow where I met up with Michelle and Darren before we said goodbye to the families and headed off through to the departure lounge (unpacking your rucksack everytime is, surprisingly, not fun!!) After some food and some excited chatter and lots of bouncing around we went down to the gate for boarding. Unfortunately, we discovered t...

Well, it had to start somewhere and where better to start than at the pub with a group of mates? Thank you so much to everybody that came and thank you for the cards and presents.....(umm, thanks Helen, I shall, look at you always!??.....) The night started off pretty interestingly - I turned up at the pub at the same time as Tess, Cath and Ellen and when we got there Kenna and Helen were already doing a GREAT impression of two extremely and utterly pissed peop...