March 30, 2010

harere mai...

Mostly, I don’t think about how far away I am. And there is so much that absolutely rocks my world about being here. But every now [...]

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January 14, 2010

‘the unlucky country’...

My home town of Wellington in New Zealand, sits directly on the fault line where the Pacific and the Australian tectonic plates meet. Shudders and tremors [...]

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August 3, 2009

maranui...

It was only a few weeks after we had met that I drove from my place in Brooklyn along the South Coast to his place in [...]

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July 13, 2009

two years from home...

Two years ago today I was trying to fit all essential items into a suitcase. To say goodbye to someone I knew I would never see [...]

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June 1, 2009

ah welly, even in the midst of the best english ...

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January 25, 2009

the last welly weekend...

As requested, the weekend weather has been bloody awesome! On Saturday we had lunch at Maranui, followed by a drive out to Eastbourne where the sea [...]

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December 7, 2008

little boxes...

There is something very spooky about Whitby. Not sure if it is the contrived duck pond or the nautically themed street names. The uniform exterior cladding [...]

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December 2, 2008

best ever commute route...

As I am now residing in Kilbirnie, my potential routes to work are many. Without doubt, my favourite is the #14. It is not the quickest [...]

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November 9, 2008

paint job...

The Arahura is getting repainted. There’s a massive fresh white space sitting up in dry dock on Aotea Quay, just asking for the Banksy treatment. Which [...]

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October 13, 2008

plan b...

I was talking to my neighbour yesterday evening. He was ‘Mitch’ the Operations Manager in last weeks Aftershock. I explained how reassured I was to know [...]

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October 7, 2008

aftershocker...

We’ll be watching Aftershock tonight. The civil defense van just drove past with the siren blaring. And apparently there will be helicopters flying over the CBD [...]

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September 23, 2008

welly in pictures...

A gorgeous, blooming reminder on an overcast day that Spring is here (as if those crazy equinox winds weren’t enough). Courtesy of the Wellington Daily Photo.

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