From The SidelineWITH FERG Nice to be in Alert Level 1 and crowds back enjoying sport. Covid has taken a lot away from us and we are all adapting to sport as it exists at the moment. Thanks for the effort you have put in to help get us there.…
read moreSo another 10 weeks has rolled around and school holidays are upon us. What do you do…..? Well, I’m here to help. No, I’m not coming around to look after your kids, but here are 20 ideas to keep you going: Teach your kids to bake (starts off messy but…
read moreFrom The SidelineWITH FERG Nice to be back. Please take care and look out for each other. I just want to have my say about the recent incident involving Highlanders rugby players in Queenstown. I have lived here for 32 years and I have just about had enough of sports…
read moreFOUNDATIONSIN WELLBEING With Adam Chalmers To connect deeply we must slow down, breathe, feel and listen. Genuine connection is essential for our mental and emotional wellbeing and brings a vibrant richness into our lives which equips us to thrive in adversity. When did you last enjoy a meaningful connection? Connection…
read moreDid you do your homework last month? What’s your child’s (or children’s) love language? Now for a little game. Three Truths and a Lie: 1. “ET home phone.” 2. “No-I am your father.” 3. “Mirror, Mirror, on the wall, who’s the fairest of them all?” 4. “If you build it,…
read moreFOUNDATIONSIN WELLBEING With Adam Chalmers To be well is closely tied with authenticity – showing our real face to the world. Trying to fit in with the way we perceive others want us to look, feel, and behave creates a tension within us that can only be eased through living…
read moreToday while contemplating what “amazing wisdom” I could dispense for this article, and with two kids at home vying for my attention, (my oldest and my youngest), I realised that two things were occurring. 1. It only seemed like yesterday that my 13-year-old was my 3-year- old. 2. That time…
read moreFOUNDATIONSIN WELLBEING With Adam Chalmers At the heart of well-being lies the responsibility for ownership of our behaviour. Choosing as part of our daily routines those activities that uplift our spirits – enriching our physical, mental and emotional quality of life. Health is more than the absence of disease and…
read moreThe Top 10 things I’ve learnt during Covid-19 levels: All the words to the Moana movie and both Frozen movies. That all the grandiose ideas I had while being on Level 4, were too grandiose. My kids surprised me with their resilience and their willingness to see the good in…
read moreFrom The SidelineWITH FERG We got the call from Government late last month that an increase in numbers for gatherings, events and local sport would rise to one hundred which gives us confidence that local sport will be able to kick off again. At the time of printing, local sport…
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