I think the hardest thing for me with these lockdowns of various levels is writing the Presidents Ramble, because I haven’t been allowed to ramble! Well not much anyway.  I have managed for work to go to Kawakawa Bay and I must admit it almost feels like I have run the blockades and got out […]

I am finding it difficult to know what to write, which maybe just as well as the Editor has given me a heads up and said she doesn’t have much space for me.  Part of me wants to rebel and present a big ramble which some of mine can be; however not this time. I […]

This one is coming at you in a rush, so will say very little. At short notice I lost use of my house to an insurance repair, kicked out, no computer etc, Part of the repairs haven’t gone well, but I am home for 3 hours before I lose the house and computer again, so […]

In May I wrote “another trip to Rotorua beckons” as I had the disappointment of finding Ciabatta Bakery shut on a Sunday.  Well. July began with the New Zealand Archaeological Association holding their annual conference in Taupo (in this case biannual with Covid putting it back a year. I believe the first miss for the […]

Going to make it short again. A select few of us have attended recent events – The Caffeine and Classics which Andrew has written about elsewhere in this magazine and the Pub Quiz night at the Horse and Trap in Eden Terrace (Little Joe – the club team was a prizewinner – you will have […]