A free sausage sizzle and some great local music made for a fun afternoon at the Rena volunteer thank you event held yesterday down at Main Mount beach.

I am a fan of strong female characters on TV. I fully subscribe to the adage "you can’t be what you can’t see." A huge part of that is having highly visible, positive role models on our screens.

A while back I wrote a blog about worst pick up lines ever. Since then there have been more. I really don’t know how some people manage to get laid, or even get ahead in life.

Finalist in the 2012 New Zealander of the Year award category Dame Suzie Moncrieff congratulates Sir Richard Taylor, the winner of last night's award.

Kiwi world production car rally champions Hayden Paddon and John Kennard have finished Rally Sweden - Paddon's first event on snow - with a solid fourth place in the Super 2000 World Rally Championship field.

Outstanding form at this week's national championships has led to the selection of six riders from New Zealand's burgeoning sprint programme in the 15-strong BikeNZ team for this month's UCI World Cup in London.

The Mayor has welcomed the baby chosen as Auckland's 1.5 millionth citizen this morning at Middlemore Hospital.

Ramonah Patience Toomalatai was born a healthy 9 pounds 9 ounces at 4.36am in Middlemore's Maternity Ward to proud parents Sulia and Tutasi Toomalatai.

Three years ago I signed up with Voxy to write travel stories. Ha, two and a half years and two kids later - there ain' t much travel been going on. So breaking with convention I have decided to write about whats going on in my life - that is being an 'un-yummy mummy'. 

Two weeks ago, sixteen year old sailor Laura Dekker arrived at her first South African port after successfully crossing the Indian Ocean - one of the world's most dangerous and unpredictable bodies of water.

Christmas time - again!  Phew, what a year for most of us.  We've been heavily involved in getting our 20 years of NZ dating experience cemented with some celebrations in both Christchurch and Wellington, as well as upgrading our database, content management and all the other stuff