The Sincerest For Of Poetry
Apprenticed To My Mother
Walking Into Trouble
Dead Flies and Sherry Trifle
The Last Will Of Sven Andersen
Booms And Busts
Buster & Moo
Salisbury Square
My Father and Other Liars
Life In A Conversation
Life, in a Grain of Sand
Life In A Flash
Category Archives: New Zealand
Travel Challenge – The Results, Day Nine
You kindly followed me through ten days of travel pictures, guessing where each one might be. I thought I’d put you out of your collective miseries/make you punch the air with a ‘Yes, I was right’ with a follow up. … Continue reading
Posted in miscellany, New Zealand, travel
Tagged New Zealand, Queenstown, south island, world of puzzles
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Empty Chairs And Other Thoughts #thoughtpiece #christchurch #NZ
It’s gloomy here, today, though no rain, just grey, just a bit meah. No tears from Heaven. Funny word ‘tears’… (n) watery droplet secreted from the eye socket; or (n) rips in the fabric. Both applied to my visit to … Continue reading
Posted in miscellany, New Zealand, thought piece
Tagged 2020, Christchurch, Christchurch cathedral, NZ, thought piece
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Invasive Species
I spent a month in New Zealand in 2014, touring both north and south Islands with my son. One of the constant items about which we heard much was the impact of introduced species of flora and fauna on the … Continue reading
Posted in gardening, miscellany, New Zealand
Tagged gardening, green parakeets, invasive speicies, lupins, sunflowers, wilding poine
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Dipping in a toe
Late last year I travelled to New Zealand with my son, the Lawyer of these pages. I was reminded of one particular post from that trip by Helen Jones’ piece that referenced a man made surfing lake in North Wales. Helen … Continue reading
Kia Ora Koutou Katoa – Back in Blighty
The longer address in the heading is, I’m told by my delightful friends in Christchurch, the correct form of address for more than 2 people. I hope I am addressing more than two people. I dream…. I have been asked … Continue reading
Kia Ora day 19: Little Boy and Fat Man – in praise of knicker elastic
For those determined readers who have travelled this far with me, this is likely to be my last post from New Zealand. Tomorrow we head for Christchurch once again but that is merely a staging post on our long journey … Continue reading
Posted in miscellany, New Zealand
Tagged a j hackett, bugy jump, bungee jump, nevis jump, New Zealand, Queenstown
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Kia Ora days 17 and 18: Darting about and Sounding Off
Queenstown has been sunny and sparkling. After a joyful day in the woods we caught a coach to the Dart River at Glenorchy. Glenorchy is a small township that nestles in Maori land. It is surrounded by a few farms … Continue reading
Kia Ora days 15 and 16 – mountains of everything
As we drove south from Franz Josef Glacier it became apparent that what the South Island is good at is excess. Mountains, lakes, empty and perfect highways, foliage. Boy does it do foliage and is it green. Like a rainforest … Continue reading
Posted in miscellany, New Zealand, walking
Tagged fergburger, Franz Josef Glacier, Haas township, kiwi, lake wanake, Maori, moa, New Zealand, possum, Queenstown, Routeburn trail, the world of puzzles, treaty of waitangi, wanake
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Kia Ora days 14 and 15: Go West Young Man
Leaving Christchurch was a wrench. We never made the Quake museum nor the City Museum. We fly home from there so maybe we’ll have time to fill those gaps. The reason was we had a train to catch. Now, I’m … Continue reading
Posted in miscellany, New Zealand
Tagged Christchurch, Franz Josef Glacier, Greymouth, New Zealand, Trans Alpine railway
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