It seems that Wellington City Council is failing to do its job. It’s managed to isolate itself from the residents, which has effectively broken democracy in the city, and there is no […]
As some of you know, I’ve started working back in the city, at least three days a week, after some months of relative isolation on the farm. The last couple of weeks […]
It has been a while since I last wrote to you dear reader. I make no excuse for the lengthy pause between posts, sometimes, as a writer, inspiration takes a holiday of […]
Spring has arrived in the Wairarapa with grass growing (it never really stopped over what was an warmer than usual winter) and everything starting to flower. Days are longer, warmer, drier, and […]
Trouble in paradise with our neighbour trespassing the Greater Wellington City Council from his property, which as I have written about before, contains the Taumata (Gretel) Lagoon. This incredibly special wetland hosts […]
Low lying mist early in the morning is a constant now, as the winter doldrums peak with just a few days before we start to see the light returning at either end […]
All the dinosaurs have been out over the last few days trying to bully public servants and other staff back to working in less than humane conditions in CBD offices because the […]
We have been here for a month now. The full moon came up through the pine shelter belt last night, a strange yellow ball casting shadows across the paddocks, an ice ring […]
Three weeks after moving from Strathmore to Taumata Island, outside Carterton, population eighty, I’ve finally come up for air. Lindsay Shelton is calling me his “foreign correspondent”, and in some ways he’s […]
News over the last week that Sue Wells is being bought in to try and help a Council that appears on the face of it to have become tribal, and not in […]
