We returned to New Zealand proper in 2003-2004, and since then, apart from a brief stint in Wellington and the Hutt Valley (too cold!) we’ve lived in Tauranga, in Bethlehem and in Welcome Bay. Three years later, just after our son was born, my husband was head-hunted by a US company, so we rented out the house and set off again, this time to Wisconsin, USA for four years, although I tended to bring the children home most summers for an annual dose of Kiwi sunshine and hokey-pokey. When she was two, we loaded up the packing boxes and returned to New Zealand, building a home in Tauranga, with two sets of doting grandparents living close by. Our daughter was born in the Clinique du Chateau de la Maye-the former home of Edward and Wallis Simpson which had been repurposed as a boutique maternity hospital. But we weren’t there for long, just a year, before my husband was relocated to Paris, where we spent seven delicious cheese-and-wine filled years. The New Zealand dollar didn’t buy much in those days! We stayed with my cousin and his wife for a couple of months in Middlesex before moving to Radlett in Hertfordshire. We might have come back to Tauranga, but instead we collected up some science degrees, got married, then headed off to England on UK grandparent entries. It was there that I met my husband, an Otumoetai old boy. We remained in Hamilton throughout the remainder of my schooling, and when Mum and Dad moved to Tauranga in the mid-1980s, I stayed on to go to Waikato University. By the time we moved to Hamilton, I was eleven, Dad had left the bank, and I had three siblings.
During this time, my parents bought a bach at Pukehina Beach, so we spent all our weekends in the Bay, right through until my teenage years, when school sports fixtures, music exams, and other busyness got in the way. My dad was in the bank and in those days the policy was to move staff about the country (I believe to avoid fraud), so no sooner had I learned to read, we were off again, this time to Taupō, where we lived for five years, but in three different houses. I was born in Putaruru, and spent my first couple of years there, before we moved to Kamo in Whangarei, where I started school. What cities/towns have you lived in (or spent more than a few months in) beginning with the place of your birth? I’m a full-time writer and editor of mainly speculative and dark fiction.
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