Contrasts
Sitting in a café in Sumner, Christchurch, reminds me how much I like contrasts. Sumner and Gibbston are quite different in a […]
Tag: covid 19
Are We Nearly There Yet?
Who has memories of being in the car on the journey to the long awaited holiday destination? ‘Are we nearly there yet’ […]
Am I a grown-up yet?
Recently I went to someone’s house in Dalefield, near Queenstown, and found myself wondering whether that house was a real grown-up house […]
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. […]