As was the case for so many people, my life changed forever on 4 September 2010 – I am not the same person that I was before then.
I remember speaking to the Avon Ihutai Estuary Trust AGM a couple of years ago and confessing how little I knew about the connections between the health and wellbeing of the community and the natural environment within which we live until I became the MP for Christchurch East.