Why yes, it is pleasing to see my name in the paper again. There is a downside, though - I only knew my photo was being used because of a Go...

  Early this month, I was going to post an entry about what a brilliant year it was turning out to be for our national (well, northern) Chri...

  Two hours from home to destination, mostly spent on two separate boat trips - that counts as travel, doesn’t it? It does for me these days...

  This is a kiwi, New Zealand’s national bird, emblem and citizen nickname (with a capital K). Today ten of them were brought to Waiheke fro...

This is Rosie. She is, her owner told me with a touch of resignation, stingray-spotting. “She doesn’t realise the season has ended.” Well, I...

Oh dear, poor Myanmar. That was a massive earthquake for Mandalay on Friday, 7.7 - our 2011 one in Christchurch was 6.2 and that was a forev...

Today it’s been five whole years since everybody’s phone beeped at 6.30pm, and all the awfulness that we’d just been watching on the news ca...