From Antarctica with Love

I Will Bring You Stories

June 9, 2013

It’s 45 degrees outside but in my hotel room it’s cool and sanitised. I sit, [...]

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Shake It Out

May 15, 2013

I imagine it would have made a good time lapse video. For two hours and [...]

A (bath)Room With a View

A Room Of One’s Own

April 7, 2013

He slipped silently into my tiny house without me noticing, as I dashed about preparing [...]

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The Meads Road Express

February 8, 2013

  The story goes that she fell for his homemade bread, he in turn her [...]

The Land Of My Forefathers: The wool shed on my great grandfather and his brothers built in the King Country

Tūrangawaewae

February 6, 2013

I am keenly aware that I am monolingual.  At work, I sit between a Russian [...]

I have instructed Ellie to go no closer than this to other cars

You Have Arrived

January 21, 2013

I missed her desperately. I missed the way we’d go places together, I missed her [...]

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Office High: Class of 2013

January 7, 2013

It was the puppy that pushed me over the edge. I could handle the baby [...]

Ruapuke Beach - Photo by Ronja Skandera

The Road To Ruapuke – 2012 In Review

January 2, 2013

We each agreed not to drown as help would be about a 10 minute sprint [...]

Anika Moa sings for her creative supper in the beautiful shed in Avondale

Creative Compulsion

December 2, 2012

It was a quintessential Kiwi moment. We’d turned up at the gig venue in plenty [...]

Because my way isn't always the right way

DIY: For Recreational Use Only

November 14, 2012

Earlier this year I had a small life pause.  I had finished one life in [...]

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Jurassic Park

October 28, 2012

I wasn’t sure if I was safer inside the vehicle or out, but I reasoned [...]

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Silas Marner – The Next Generation

October 21, 2012

  I read the novel Silas Marner when I was about 14, and I remember [...]

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One Careful Lady Owner

September 17, 2012

‘I’m sorry, constable, it’s a rental. I’m not au fait with how it works’ is [...]

Clear labelling of boxes helps protect your sanity, if not the boxes' contents.

‘We’re not tourists…We’re just in between homes.’

May 9, 2012

‘It’s ok, we’re not tourists’ smiled my friend, Liv, to the bemused young guys on [...]

All was not right on Waiheke Island

Faux Hippies on Fantasy Island

January 22, 2012

I didn’t want to tell Sarah, but secretly I didn’t mind Crowded House…but this wasn’t [...]