New Zealand IS a Village

Last Wednesday evening I get a message from our National Coach, Jan Cameron in Auckland; will I phone her? Sure.

She's in a line-up at the grocers but she needs to unload on me and bring me up to date with all the various unstraightforward goings-on with the High Performance group we have in Auckland. The call last 42 minutes.

As I end the call I get a txt alert:

'Standing next to jan cameron in grocery store - She's in a v intense phone call about our only realistic olympic medal contender who ...... (remainder of message deleted because its personal about the swimmer).'

Auckland is 658km from Wellington. It's a 9:15 drive or a one hour flight. There are 1.25 million people in Auckland. How come one of the blondes (the one on the left during a production of 'Hair') is standing next to Jan at the precise time she's calling me?

New Zealand is a village.