I got a phone call from Son Two today. His grandfather, who raised him with us when he was small — this is before I…
Posted: 7 July 2020
Categories: New Zealand
Category: New Zealand
Posted: 5 July 2020
Categories: New Zealand
I always thought patterned poems were a modern affectation. Soemthing to do with E E Cumming, and I was wrong. When you extract the text…
Posted: 1 July 2020
Categories: New Zealand
I am only using Statcounter. Last month there were 2907 page views with 1280 unique IP addresses. The most popular posts for last month are…
Posted: 29 June 2020
Categories: New Zealand
The main thing that has happened this week is that all the WordPress plugins have been removed from the site. I’m now using Cleantalk for…
Posted: 27 June 2020
Categories: Black Swan, COVID 19, New Zealand, The Decline, Theology, Wokeness
Well, what a week. The COVID has returned to my nation, with pushback and people being put under the bus. The mood on the street…
Posted: 24 June 2020
Categories: COVID 19, New Zealand, Poetry
Prevarication and delay breeds cynicism. I have known half this poem most of my life, but managed to find the full version. Why now and…
Posted: 23 June 2020
Categories: COVID 19, New Zealand
As far as I can gather, there are now ten cases as the people who are flying in every day are now being tested… but…
Posted: 22 June 2020
Categories: New Zealand
I am aware of people who have kiwi kids elsewhere, who cannot repatriate. But the borders are closed, and this is why. New Zealand has…
Posted: 18 June 2020
Categories: Black Swan, COVID 19, New Zealand
Reading today’s local paper, it looks like some of the landlords are getting antsy, particularly when the woke try to rename their historic properties, where…
Posted: 17 June 2020
Categories: New Zealand, Poetry
Brian Turner is a post War poet: not imperialist, very regional. This is an accurate description of Central Otago as it was: of my experience…