I'm a 20-something year old from the city of Dunedin, which is in the lower half of the South Island in New Zealand.

New Zealand (aka Middle Earth!) is in the southern Pacific Ocean, 1,600km east of Australia(that's right - nowhere near Africa, "Scotchland" or Iceland! ;-)

NZ is 268,000 km in size, but has a population of around 4.1 million people (& millions of sheep!)

I'm currently working as a News and Sports Reporter for national New Zealand network TV3.

I previously worked as Executive Producer & backup newsreader for 9 Local News, on Dunedin's local tv station Channel 9.

I spent most of 1999-2001 living in Luton (England), travelling around Europe, and working at Summer Camps in the USA.

I also worked at Southern Television (part of the Horizon Pacific TV Network), while training at the Otago Institute of Television, Theatre & Radio.

I am "technically" the oldest of 3 kids in my family...

My brother Peter is married to Jun, and they now live in Japan with their daughter Lana and son Alex.

My sister Helen has a daughter, Dayna (aka 'Baby Ronan' by Uncle Dave), and a son Lachlan (aka 'Baby Rotten').

The other 2 dodgy characters in the photo here are Mom, Mom's sister Annette (& Dad hiding).
(Dad works from home, making wooden products, and Mom spends her time watching daytime telly ;-)