It has been great to hear from young library users and understand their thoughts and opinions on the need for a new library in Cambridge. Part of the board’s focus is to maintain an overview…
It has been great to hear from young library users and understand their thoughts and opinions on the need for a new library in Cambridge. Part of the board’s focus is to maintain an overview…
There is a phenomenon arising, phoenix-like, near the Cambridge Golf Club. Actually, not really arising, but sinking – as in becoming a huge hole. This in the shape of a projected quarry to add output…
Imagine the ‘future fame’ being potentially walked past on Cambridge streets when talented buskers are performing. I once witnessed unbelievably gifted performers and artists busking as I wandered a Dublin street. It was here an…
Last night (as I write this) there was a live burning of a house in Levin aired on Seven Sharp to show the realities of such an event. My household watched the fire quickly grow…
I have been out and about again meeting with a few community groups this week, both as part of the Elder Abuse awareness campaign with Violence Free Waipa and independently in my role as Community…
I love ‘The Book of Heroic Failures’… it’s a hilarious compilation of people attempting things that resulted in spectacular failure. One standout from 1983 was a Californian sunbather seeking a perfect tan. Going for better…
For 20 years or more, we have been impressed and surprised by the positive economic data that has been coming out of China. Growth has been between 7 and 10 per cent a year over…
Did you know that the rock that makes up the top of Mount Everest is limestone that formed below the ocean? Enormous tectonic forces slowly pushed the rocks upwards to make a mountain range that…
Winter is still upon us with some very frosty mornings and lots of fog hitting the area of late. Please remember to manually turn on your headlights, drive to the conditions and defensively. On the…
Often we’re more concerned with alleviating the effects (symptoms) of our problems and difficulties rather than identifying and tackling the cause of those problems – that is, getting to the root, or source. To be…
