Floodtime reminisces – Mekong weavers
As floods refresh the east coast Australia river systems and locals get a bit toey forgetting it is the wet season now – La Nina, one sometimes drifts / floats […]
Reminiscing in an old wooden house on Route 66
Upstate New York, Chatham Centre, there’s a few Chathams around Columbia County, Old Chatham, East Chatham and Chatham ; an iron bridge across the Kinderhook river, where a covered wooden […]
NY downtown
On the hunt for shoes in downtown Manhattan, subway rides under the East river, commuters preoccupied with phones, the odd verbal communication from cheeky buskers, in bygone days newspapers and […]
Batiking in the rice fields Bali – 2009/2010p
An after school cultural excursions After returning to school in Aug ’08, after a 4 month long service leave, —- a month in Bali, and Nepal and two months in […]
Inanga and Pounamu: of small fish and stones
2007 My dear old cousin Mick Collins was always encouraging me to stop a while in Greymouth and engage in the Pounamu carving course at the local Adult Education College, […]
Railway reminiscing 2012 – 1973
Opening the window on the Carlingford – Clyde line whilst listening to Vietnamese share greetings and salutations, tired labourers catch a few more winks, the train glides downhill past Teleopea, […]
A Desert Run May 2016
Desert Camp May June 2016 — a month on the road with 35 students and 5 adults, a heap of swags and a couple of camp ovens. Awakening to […]
“Look at all the Gravel”
New Zealand Reflections “Look At All The Gravel” Having just spent three weeks in Te Wai Pounamu, South Island New Zealand, with 35 students from a north coast Steiner […]
Agriculture across the Pacific
Easter calls from the Americas, “the Spirit of Sustainable Agriculture” at the Divinity School at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. But a brief stopover in Maui to stretch the legs, […]
halfway there
Hawai’i , central pacific so far from continental coastlines fresh land some only 20 years old, cheap real estate during Pelee’s wrath, could get more than one bargained for and […]
Other side of the Pacific from home
Across the stunning scenery of the western states on an Albuquerque – San Francisco flight, volcanic cinder cones , gorges and desertscapes, high mounts and faulted tears . Picked up […]
Outstanding In Their Fields 