Over the recent weekend I was pleasantly involved with the celebrations of a good friend. The reason for the festivities being his 80th birthday. Being a long-time resident in a retirement village such an event…
Over the recent weekend I was pleasantly involved with the celebrations of a good friend. The reason for the festivities being his 80th birthday. Being a long-time resident in a retirement village such an event…
I’ve never forgotten the account of a fishing village on the coast of Cornwall, facing potential disaster years ago. Although well accustomed to the force of prevailing south westerly winds blowing in from the Atlantic…
Tarapipipi Te Waharoa was born in 1805 into a world where the principle of utu was first and foremost in how his people lived. I should note here that the most well-known consequence of utu…
I hope the school holidays are going well. To start off today, a topic that is coming to our attention on a regular basis is the presence of homeless and transient people sleeping in vehicles…
I am about 18,000 km way from home alongside a lava flow that destroyed communities in 2021. Here in La Palma, in the Canary Islands off the coast of northern Africa, I am hearing very…
Waikato District Council has just adopted its annual plan for the year ahead and has managed to drop the average general rates increase to 11.9 per cent from the 13.75 per cent first proposed. Guided…
A big part of life is about getting prepared. One way or another, throughout our lives, we’re always in some sort of ‘preparation’ for the ‘next thing’. Think about that…from birth, to first words, first…
We had a wee hot spot of car crime in the Williams, Clare and Vogel streets last weekend and two burglaries in the last week elsewhere in Cambridge. One offender or group of offenders can…
In a BBC article, a colleague, Professor Matthew Watson, is warning of the dangers of tourism at Fuego – a twin volcano which erupted with deadly consequences in Guatemala in 2018. Watson stopped taking student…
Through most of the last year I have suffered with global osteo-arthritis so this column has not been high on my list of priorities! However over the last couple of weeks two special events in…
