Goodbye Loki
We said goodbye to Loki this week and lowered him into his final resting place in our garden. The skink and rabbit […]
Month: July 2020
Our stories
It is surprisingly hard to remember that there are 8 billion people in the world all with their own stories, in which […]
A cleft stick
It turns out that water diviners no longer necessarily use bisected wooden sticks, No. 8 fencing wire will also perform. The question, […]
Future insights
One of my favourite recent quotes was from Cameron Bagrie, economic consultant and previously Chief Economist at ANZ. A series of economists […]
Our heroes
Todd Muller, ex-man of the week, has not been one of my heroes. He probably hasn’t been leader of his party long […]
Elastic people?
I was pondering as to the degree of behavioural elasticity people have demonstrated throughout COVID-19 changes in New Zealand. People are frequently […]
Politics & people
It goes without saying that politics is fraught with people; my thinking on this has been driven by yesterday’s political fiasco around […]
Fool’s Paradise?
COVID news of this week was that three eminent New Zealanders think we should reopen the border and abandon our elimination strategy. […]
Letters from Paradise
20 June 2022 Dearest Lou Here I am finally, in New Zealand, very relieved to be here. As you know, we got […]