Well, I’m back home after a wonderful weekend in Brisbane! I flew there on Friday and went straight to the CALEB book awards dinner. When...

This Friday I’m heading to Brisbane for a long weekend to attend the Word Writers Fair. On the Friday night is the Awards dinner for the...

I woke this morning to find a very exciting email in my in-box – a list of all the finalists in the different categories of the CALEB...

I just came across this encouraging review of  Where Lions Roar at Night on Amazon  from a family in the Carribean: “We have just...

I’ve just been informed that Where Arrows Fly is on the shortlist for the Children’s books section of the CALEB Prize 2011. Exciting!...

I’m hoping you’ll read this, Jada, because today I got the most beautiful letter and pictures from you!! I want to write back but there...

I can hardly believe it but today I finally finished writing Book Three of The Barn Chronicles series!! I began it on Friday, August 20th...

Two days ago, I got a tiny three day old Jersey calf for ‘my very own self’!! I’ve been wanting to get a calf that I can hand rear and...

Today at 11am Milly, Penny and I went up in the freezing rain to move the horses. It was bitterly cold as we rode the quad up to the...

Milly’s milking cow Blossom has been losing weight for some time now and has also had a bad hip which has stopped her from being able to...

We had fun in Tauranga last weekend. I was speaking at a women’s camp in Papamoa, so the whole family (other than Ellie who stayed behind...

We’ve had a full busy two weeks, starting with a visit from some of Chris’s family from Europe; two of his cousins – Jacqueline from...

A good frost here this morning! Happily, Chris had stoked the fire in the night, so it is warm and snug in the house. Today I fly to...

It’s Mystery Creek time again, and this year will be a special time for me! My twin sister Penny is going to be there representing the...

In February I was interviewed by Peter Shaw of Radio Rhema for an hour. He talked with me about my childhood in New Guinea, how I started...

It was really cold in Whangarei last night!  I came home at 9.30pm with the kids after an afternoon/evening of soccer and youth group. We...

This morning we had fun doing Haiku poems together. Haikus must have only three lines, with five syllables in the first and third lines,...

We arrived home from our Boom family tour at 1am this morning in the wind and the rain. There was no power because of the storm, so we...

Chris and Rosie Boom and their six children are setting off on tour this weekend and will be visiting many different towns and cities...

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