Over the last two weekends, our new Burmese kitten, Java, has been introduced to the great outdoors. He’s coped very well and had a wonderful time. New sights, new scents, grass under his feet, meeting the neighbour’s cat, climbing trees, birds – close, though fortunately not yet personal.
Here are some little videos of the action.
Climbing [...]
Earlier this year, during the NZ National Library’s family history month, I was asked to give a talk on Writing and publishing your family history. I felt a bit of a fraud really. I had written and published a family history book – Going Abroad – but it was way back in 1997. Since then, [...]
Maori people are currently debating which flag, from a number of options, should be adopted as a Maori flag to fly alongside the New Zealand flag on Waitangi Day. Apart from one design, they are awful.
But the best of them is actually damn good and should be adopted as the flag for everyone in New [...]
This image, from today’s Dominion-Post, shows the coming realignment of the worst of the Rimutaka hill road – all on the Wellington side of the summit. Work starts later this month and completion can’t come soon enough for those of us who travel back and forth regularly, hoping we won’t meet big trucks on the [...]
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