I am sitting at my desk on a still Sunday afternoon listening to laughter outside accompanying the clack of croquet mallets on the adjacent lawn. All is peaceful in this quiet backwater of senior citizens….
I am sitting at my desk on a still Sunday afternoon listening to laughter outside accompanying the clack of croquet mallets on the adjacent lawn. All is peaceful in this quiet backwater of senior citizens….
View Larger Topographic Map Taiea te Taiao. This is the Māori name of the Maungatautari to Pirongia Ecological Corridor Project. The principal aim of the project, led by NZ Landcare Trust and funded principally by…
Another word of warning this week, this time around mail order items. You will have seen the glossy catalogues that arrive in the mail sometimes. Mail order companies often try to lure us in with…
I got into the smaller of our two cars this morning and pushed the start button. The car said: “I’m fed up with being a Nissan Juke; I wanna be something big like a Ford…
This week we have had another tragedy; the death of a community member from a falling tree. My thoughts go out to family and friends and those who were present. I know these sentiments are…
What’s in a street or even a town name? In a previous column I commented on names and naming, quoting Shakespeare’s ‘A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.’ A poetic narrative that…
Over the weekend our Auckland visiting guests brought with them their brand new all-electric car. Made in China this quietly gliding beast came equipped with so many electrically driven toys that a NASA-styled training almost…
Recently, as many of you know, the Waikato Regional Council took the very difficult decision to replace our chair. Not one councillor would have found this an easy decision to take and indeed there were…
First of all, Constables Smith and Petch have asked me to pass on a thank you. Last week we received a call about a lady who had gone walking on the Waikato River trail, but…
In choosing to write about environmental issues, I never did intend to go into facts and figures in any great depth or to explore particular occurrences in detail. There are any number of sources of…
