Across
- 1. Bay of our very early childhood - special days (5)
- 5. An appropriate house name on Waiheke (4,5)
- 10. An old friend visited at the top of Farmers - but I seldom heard him speak! (6)
- 11. When mum & dad went French with their car (5)
- 12. Place in England but known to us at an early childhood educational outfit (9)
- 13. Sparkling waters anyone? Go here! (9)
- 15. By the river? Road of many formative years (9)
- 16. When the family got this model we were flying! (6)
- 18. Rob rode a motorbike from here all the way to Auckland - never again! (10,5)
Down
- 2. A place and also a way to get there - featured in Harry Potter! (6)
- 3. Affectionate name for the shop keeper at Edgewater (2,5)
- 4. Whaia te ara o Tainui comes out of this place (9,7)
- 5. Santa was 50 feet high and beckoned with his moving _______ (6)
- 6. Geaney name for Living Room (3,4)
- 7. Affectionate name for the boat dad restored on the beach at Matiatia (spelling?) (8)
- 8. Type of early phone connection when we moved to the mainland (5,4)
- 9. Before Pakuranga Town Centre we had to go here for shops! (7)
- 11. Primary school with some old school nuns! (2,8)
- 12. An ureliable ferry but a nostalgic one, taken many a time between the city and Matiatia (7)
- 14. An old boyfriend and a reigning king (3)
- 17. Growing up we had a green one on waiheke and a red one in Pakuranga (7)