monday

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younger readers will recognise some of what follows from a recent Taylor Swift video.  it’s the landscape which features, not jane’s dad.

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the two of us drove to Bethell’s beach so that Chris could do some dune surfing

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we walked back down the river

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then we walked down the beach (avoiding quicksand)

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while we were out the ladies went to takapuna beach cafe for ice-creams, kezia attempted to restyle her room and esther went to the beach with some chums who then came back and played in the pool

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this evening some of us went in to auckland CBD for a walk down the boardwalk with pearl

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