Bibliophilia

It is commonplace to hear or read New Zealanders saying 'Housing prices are so high now, I feel sorry for anyone trying to buy their fi...

I've stopped saying I can't sing, because lately I've been doing a lot of singing so it would be ridiculous to continue protesti...

Following the whale strandings and deaths near Whangarei earlier this month, tangata whenu (local Maori) from Patu harakeke - Takahiw...

Everything is bursting into bloom with the thrill of warm spring rains. Swathes of green are broken with pink, red, white, yellow, orange b...

What have I been doing lately instead of composing frequent, witty, thoughtful blogular commentaries on the world around me? Well, the vege ...

Walking up the right side of the road, minding my own business I noticed a very small animal trotting towards me on the left. I stopped and...

I went round to visit Mt Tiger, where I house-sat this winter. I got to have some nice cuddles with Bonnie , who I have been missing lots. ...

October Garden Every now and then something shatters my mild-mannered, peace-loving, bodhichitta-aspiring, hippy-dippy default mode of being...

Remember the baby birds I wrote about a few weeks ago? Well they grew up and fledged surprisingly quickly. I would look out at the nest a...

Let me say that in... most... countries, 95 percent of the built environment is merchandise. It's not architecture. It's merchandis...

This is my odometer (123456) at about 8pm last night just before the turnoff to Oakura. This post is dedicated to Rachel, Bill and Sylvie wh...

Should I ever get too bogged down in self-criticism, I only have to think about my friends to help get a better perspective. First of all ...

The most adrenaline I've produced from reading a book lately has been my encounter with The Handmade House: A love story set in concrete...

Two new (to me) species spotted lately live and loose in Hukeranui. 1. A stoat ran across the road like a ripple of fox-red fur, stopping ...

After visiting four Hikurangi open homes within an hour and 500 metres of each other (three of them asking almost exactly the same price) I ...