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Five Lives, Rugby Union Daily

Welcome to Rugby Union Daily, coming to you from Auckland in New Zealand.

Kia ora, we should say. I am Sarah Orchard and it is time to say a big, big New Zealand

hello to the 2014 Rugby World Cup winner, Kat Merchand. How are you?

Awesome, thank you, apart from some sunburns. I'm pretty great.

If anyone wants to see the sunburn, please go to Kat's. You put it all over social media.

Yeah, Twitter, Instagram, I put it out there. I want people to know that I'm burnt.

Yeah, and it's worth saying you were wearing suncream.

Yes, absolutely. Suncream all over. I was going to see kayaking, which was amazing.

But then off the air just didn't realise how it was.

Well, not only that. A lot of people keep saying this now we're in New Zealand.

There's no ozone here, apparently. So you do burn really, really quickly.

So clearly that's what you've been a victim of. Yeah, well when we first arrived,

we were like the sun's different here and just thought it sounded ridiculous to say,

but actually turns out it is true because it's only 20 degrees, but this is one of the worst

sunburns I've ever got. Well done. Well done. Thank you.

Now listen, you've done everything. You've been sea kayaking.

You've been wine tasting. You've been to the Rugby World Cup quarterfinals.

I mean, I've just been chasing my luggage at the airport, which only arrived last night.

It's fine, everyone. I had enough knickers. I know you're worried.

Tell me what the highlights are. Well, the quarterfinals were amazing.

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