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Hiruharama (Jerusalem)

March 17, 2010 by  
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You catch a glimpse of the steeple of St Joseph’s Church some way ahead of actually driving into Hiruharama (Jerusalem) up the Whanganui awa (river). It peers out at you from between the

Moutoa Island

March 16, 2010 by  
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It’s the start of autumn as we make this journey up the Whanganui awa (river) on our way to Hiruharama (Jerusalem). Autumn warms me more than any other single season in a calendar year. It has the soft foot fall of

Water Water Everywhere

January 26, 2010 by  
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They’ve stayed in my memory for years these lines, actually the entire narrative has. It’s Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’. Our old School Principal, Bob Foster taught it to

As We Speak

January 24, 2010 by  
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One of my favourite alto saxophonists is veteran jazz legend David Sanborn, I’ve loved him forever. Well, as long as there’s been an ‘As We

House & Garden

January 17, 2010 by  
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The plum trees around Onga Onga are loaded, their red cheeks blushed from sunstroke and standing out boldly against the long dry flaxen-coloured grass. I brought

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