For today's connection, I could have gone with Wisconsin, if ihe news coming out of there wasn't so sad and depressing. We probabl...

I've been writing today about the longest place name not only in New Zealand, but also THE WORLD!  It's in the southern Hawkes Bay...

This is a dog spike. Nothing, I'm pleased to report, to do with spiking dogs, but all about railway tracks: you hammer these through a...

Last night I was watching a by-the-numbers true crime rehash of the Peter Falconio murder - or was  it? - in the Northern Territory in 200...

As usual, I didn't have my phone with me to take a photo, so you're going to have to use your imagination. Start with the above,...

H ere we go again. Normal TV programming was broken into last night by an emergency press briefing with the Prime Minister and Director-Ge...

Whanganui and Valparaiso get connected today, thanks to Mauricio. He's got a bit miffed about the Durie Hill Elevator's claim, fai...