19 August 2020Uncategorized Where’s the humanity? If you were hoping for a run-down on vaccines you will have to wait a little while longer as I am going […]
15 August 2020Uncategorized Circles or spirals? I am feeling like we have headed back around a loop, with the return to Level 3 Alert in Auckland and Level […]
12 August 2020Uncategorized Damn… When dawn broke this morning I wished I hadn’t looked at my phone as I plugged it in last night. If I […]
8 August 2020Uncategorized Contrasts Sitting in a café in Sumner, Christchurch, reminds me how much I like contrasts. Sumner and Gibbston are quite different in a […]
5 August 2020Uncategorized Are We Nearly There Yet? Who has memories of being in the car on the journey to the long awaited holiday destination? ‘Are we nearly there yet’ […]
1 August 2020Uncategorized Am I a grown-up yet? Recently I went to someone’s house in Dalefield, near Queenstown, and found myself wondering whether that house was a real grown-up house […]
29 July 2020Uncategorized Goodbye Loki We said goodbye to Loki this week and lowered him into his final resting place in our garden. The skink and rabbit […]
25 July 2020Uncategorized Our stories It is surprisingly hard to remember that there are 8 billion people in the world all with their own stories, in which […]
22 July 2020Uncategorized A cleft stick It turns out that water diviners no longer necessarily use bisected wooden sticks, No. 8 fencing wire will also perform. The question, […]
18 July 2020Uncategorized Future insights One of my favourite recent quotes was from Cameron Bagrie, economic consultant and previously Chief Economist at ANZ. A series of economists […]