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Ngahinapouri, New Zealand

Life in rural Waikato

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    • 2021
      • On capital punishment
    • 2020
      • Books read in 2020
      • Ambition
      • What’s important
      • Surviving
      • Progress?
    • 2019
      • Books read in 2019
      • The battle of the padlock
      • Ambition
      • Just for a minute …
      • What did you do?
    • 2017
      • My holiday
      • That old tiresome question
      • Round the bays
    • 2016
      • Fate
      • Are you serious?
      • Sympathy and annoyance in equal parts
      • Back to square one
      • Cleaning under the bed
      • A book club without books
      • A kept woman
    • 2015
      • To those who have …
      • Collecting jugs
      • Where I live now
      • Long watches of the night
      • Nothing to do
      • The bad old days
      • Reality check
      • It’s all about the money
      • Noise
    • 2014
      • Letter to a library
      • Terendak
      • Debo
      • My writing room
      • Kindred spirits
      • Moving on
      • Half full or half empty?
      • Memory is selective
  • Editing
    • The Learning Hubs
    • An alternative view of the outdoors
    • Gifted and talented
    • New teachers and disastrous lessons
    • Seascapes
  • Reading
    • Henry VIII and his wives in the #MeToo era
    • The books that made me
    • When you have oil …
    • A picture paints a 1000 pages
    • The right word has gone
    • Hair – a metaphor for race
    • No-one’s that perfect
    • Copyright considerations
    • Good vs evil
    • Education for girls
    • War story
    • Falconry
    • Happy endings
    • A question of wealth
    • Voiceless
    • Captain Cook
  • Gallery
    • Australia
      • Perth
      • Sydney
    • Borneo
      • Mount Kinabalu
      • Sepilok
    • India
      • Agonda beach, south Goa
      • Hyderabad
      • Mumbai
    • Malaysia
      • Avillion Resort, Port Dickson
      • Churches, mosques and temples
      • Festival lights
      • Houses in Malaysia
      • Langkawi
      • Majestic Hotel, Kuala Lumpur
      • Motorcycling in Malaysia
      • On the streets of Malaysia
      • Penang architecture
      • Pinang Peranakan Mansion
    • New Zealand
      • A walk in Auckland
      • Awhitu Peninsula
      • Bayly’s beach
      • Maungawhau
      • New Zealand cafes and pubs
      • Okahu Bay
      • Raglan
      • Tahuna Torea
      • Trees
      • What I like about Auckland
    • Thailand
      • Chiang Mai
    • Vietnam
      • Hoi An
      • Saigon
      • Vietnamese women
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Recent posts

  • Another bend in the river February 13, 2021
  • Peace amidst the chaos January 7, 2021
  • Te Waikoropupū Springs August 24, 2020
  • Cable Bay August 21, 2020
  • Too good to be true July 14, 2020

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