Good Friday and Easter Sunday are the central events of Easter. While many of us enjoy the holiday and perhaps justify the opportunity to indulge in a bit of chocolate and a hot cross bun…
Good Friday and Easter Sunday are the central events of Easter. While many of us enjoy the holiday and perhaps justify the opportunity to indulge in a bit of chocolate and a hot cross bun…
I’m back. After a six month hiatus working in Hamilton I have decided there is “no place like home” and I have returned to my substantive position as community constable for Te Awamutu. I particularly…
We don’t predict eruptions – we forecast them. I sigh every time a headline boldly claims that new research will allow us to predict volcanic eruption. The word predict implies precision: saying exactly what will…
I’m writing this from Nepal as I set my sights homeward in the next few days. By the time this column is published, I will have my feet planted back firmly on the beautiful land…
We say that neighbours are the best guardians to help keep our local community safe. Last Wednesday that was the case, when an eagle-eyed member of the community saw an unknown male on a nearby…
I’ve been thinking about the vast, interconnected processes that shape our world. As a geoscientist – someone who studies the Earth – I work across scales that range from thousands of kilometres down to microscopic…
Each fortnight I am driven to sit at my computer and settle on a suitable subject for this opinion piece. Sometimes it is obvious – but on other occasions I must dig deep to emerge…
As I write, I’m on day four of a 10 day trip in Nepal. Landing in Kathmandu brought back memories of my last visit in 2019. In the surging sea of bustling humanity struggling to…
New Zealand is small enough to give each of us almost unmatched access to decision-makers at national and local level compared with most western nations. We angst about voter turnout, yet we are still one…
When the big square bales dropped off the forks, they knocked the land-girl flat. She hadn’t heard him coming. Plugged into her Walkman, broad back turned to him, shovelling out years of an old leak…
