Monthly Archives: November 2010

It’s affecting me – my snail home. After circumnavigating first the Coromandel then East Cape, 80kms an hour feels like a panic attack for both of us. We’ve taking to tootling happily along in the 50km speed bracket. We risk … Continue reading →

Tokomaru dotterel Beachfront Tokomaru. I’m hoping the sun is hot enough to run my computer off the solar panel. But it doesn’t look promising. The inverter is squeaking at me in a fussily alarming manner. It’s not quite 9.00am and … Continue reading →

When I first started ‘planning’ my year-long  trek around New Zealand, I decided it would be wise to have a theme – a series of articles that totted up to some coherent body of work. Something, even, saleable. But somewhere … Continue reading →

When you’ve just broadcast your departure for places farflung, it becomes kind of bad form to keep popping up in the spots people usually expect to see you. Instead of the normal ‘hi- how are you’ sort of greetings, a … Continue reading →

Snapper for dinner tonight. Not through any efforts of my own – unless you count navigating the bone-shaking, suspension shattering one-lane road to Port Jackson bay as sufficient effort. Seems I was fairly singular in my luck of meeting a … Continue reading →

Writing for me is a song – a melody that has rhythm, metre, an emotional centre that informs how thoughts can be caught in time. And sung into existence I arrived in New Zealand in 1960. By sea. I had … Continue reading →

It’s done. I am now officially a gypsy. It hasn’t been easy – but moving from house to van has given me a whole bunch of new insights about clutter. To mangle an old idiom, a static stone gathers most … Continue reading →