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Life in rural Waikato

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      • Monsters in cars
      • A shoulder is to break
    • 2021
      • Books read in 2021
      • Night falls on the city
      • On capital punishment
    • 2020
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      • 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
      • Round the bays
      • That old tiresome question
    • 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
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      • Perth
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    • Borneo
      • Mount Kinabalu
      • Sepilok
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      • Agonda beach, south Goa
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      • 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
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      • Chiang Mai
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      • Hoi An
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Saigon

Art gallery, Saigon
Beer in Vietnam
Cathedral, Saigon
Continental Hotel, Saigon
Ho Chi Minh
Hotel de Ville, Saigon
Majestic Hotel, Saigon
Motorcycles in Saigon
Post office, Saigon
Opera building. Saigon
Reception room in Reunification Palace
Saigon traffic
Reunification Palace, Saigon
Street cobbler Saigon
Street life, Saigon
Street market stall, Saigon
Street market, Saigon
Street vendor, Saigon
Vendor, Saigon

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