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Tag: New Zealand

20 June 2020Uncategorized

Conspiracies in the corners

My brain took a loose turn this week when considering the New Zealand quarantine issues… There’s an election in New Zealand in […]

17 June 2020Uncategorized

Limits to compassion

I, like many other New Zealanders, was pretty unhappy to hear yesterday about two new cases of COVID-19 in the country. It […]

13 June 2020Uncategorized

Saving & fighting

We are subject to a constant barrage of war analogies, particularly in the face of the current COVID-19 pandemic, and ongoing in […]

10 June 2020Uncategorized

Scales of loss

I lost an earring yesterday. I would hazard a guess that any male reading this statement is completely puzzled as to why […]

6 June 2020Uncategorized

Tuatua fritters and watercress

Barry Crump, of New Zealand-scale fame, wrote a book entitled “Wild Pork & Watercress” in 1997. It was written in standard Crumpian […]

3 June 2020Uncategorized

Moths and flames

Chris loves a good fire. This is probably one of his quintessential ‘bloke’ characteristics as I have noticed that there are quite […]

30 May 2020Uncategorized

The art of navigation

The finding of two lost trampers in northwest Nelson this week was a relief and an irritation. It is great that two […]

27 May 2020Uncategorized

A new love

I have a new love. Don’t worry about Chris though, my love is not an animate being. It is surfing, of the […]

23 May 2020Uncategorized

The lucky country

“The lucky country’ was the title of a book published in 1964 by Donald Horne, used there as a negative description of […]

20 May 2020Uncategorized

Living at Level 2

In general, people want to live at the highest level. In a building, the penthouse is the most desirable place to be. […]

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