Jane Shearer

End Day

I don’t know when I first heard about the day the world would end. There certainly was no government announcement; in future […]

There’s plenty of anecdotal evidence that the COVID-year has driven more couples to separate than normal. Family lawyers say that they have […]

When I started at the University of Canterbury in 1983, I underwent a minor rebellion and took philosophy instead of chemistry. I […]

Chronic fatigue is one of the common symptoms of ‘long COVID’. In Britain, there are estimates that 14% of people who tested […]

As far as I was concerned this week’s news of the week (in a less than good way) was the restating of […]

I spent my work in COVID-ville, otherwise known as the City of Sails. The purpose of my visit was to run or […]

I was looking at masks when I flew up to Auckland this week, and wondering how people decided to select the mask […]

I was rather surprised this week to read that the travel industry thinks the government should insure travellers against getting stuck in […]

Upon finishing our 3 week cycling trip I suddenly felt flat. Dead flat. Perhaps as flat as a frog we saw on […]

A year ago tomorrow I posted the start of this blog, prompted by Jacinda Ardern’s announcement on March 21 2020 that New […]