
MY PART IN THE POLITICAL UPHEAVAL OF HONG KONG
The driver said he wouldn’t go into Central Hong Kong because ‘there’s a riot there and it’s not safe’. Continue reading MY PART IN THE POLITICAL UPHEAVAL OF HONG KONG
The driver said he wouldn’t go into Central Hong Kong because ‘there’s a riot there and it’s not safe’. Continue reading MY PART IN THE POLITICAL UPHEAVAL OF HONG KONG
By Sara Dinnen You’re a woman living on your own. Or, indeed, a man living on his own. It doesn’t matter what gender and what the causes might have been – death, divorce, just plain fed up – the result is the same. You’re living on your own. Don’t you just love it when someone who has been married for 45 years or so, and … Continue reading A PAIR, A SPARE AND A MAYOR
There, in the corner, was an ice-cold bottle of bubbly. I decided to have a glass while working….which suddenly became three. Continue reading Bubbles, bubbles, toil and troubles
None of them had the stuffy and potentially fawning “Madam” and “Sir” approach during their verbal interactions. Continue reading THE MUMMY AND THE DUKE
School food was never like this! Culinary college in Kerikeri. Continue reading SERVING UP AN EDUCATION By Sandy Myhre
The old truism not to leave town until you’ve seen the country, applies. And just a three-hour drive from Auckland, or a 40-minute flight to Kerikeri airport and a half hour drive, lies the pretty tourist town of Paihia. No-one is quite sure how Paihia got its name – it doesn’t translate directly to anything in Maori. But a fairly logical version is that one … Continue reading Local and Lovely in the Far North of New Zealand