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2026

Journeys

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A red rose in Te Aroha Domain

Te Aroha · WaikatoTe Aroha: The Town of LoveA king's breakfast, a former nuns' residence and a day unfolding beneath the mountain.Continue reading →

Te Aroha and surrounding farmland from Whakapipi Lookout

Te Aroha · WaikatoTe Aroha: What Getting It Wrong Gave UsFrom a geyser in sunlight into cloud and darkness, a climb leaves an unexpected gift.Continue reading →

Tea fields, a pond and farmland beyond the terrace at Zealong Tea Estate

Zealong · WaikatoA Cup of Tea, Thirty Years in the Making1,500 plants. Only 130 survived. Then another thirteen years before there was tea to sell.Continue reading →

A jetty reaching into Hokianga Harbour

Hokianga · NorthlandHokianga: A Good Place to Grow Old AloneAncient kauri, harbour and tide frame a quiet journey about ageing and seeing New Zealand again.Continue reading →

A Cambridge street lined with autumn trees

Cambridge · WaikatoCambridge: Where Excellence Becomes OrdinaryAn autumn town of coffee, training grounds, schools and quiet order.Continue reading →

Blue water and palms on the Abel Tasman coast

Abel Tasman · TasmanAbel Tasman: Where the Sea Walked Part of the WayThree days join water taxis and coastal tracks into one journey.Continue reading →

Life

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The Green Island brick house more than twenty years later

Life · ReflectionThe Day We Kept Putting Our Hand UpA first New Zealand home, an auction, and the questions we did not yet know to ask.Continue reading →

A middle-aged man and his younger self looking towards the coast

Life · MemoryMeeting My Thirty-Years-Ago SelfA reunion after thirty years becomes a meeting with the boy who could not use Pinyin.Continue reading →

A Chinese student carrying a tape recorder beside his New Zealand teacher on a 1990s university campus

Life · Language & MigrationThe Kiwi Teacher Whose Eyes I Could Never Quite Meet AgainA small misunderstanding that echoed from Wuhan to New Zealand across decades.Continue reading →

A driveway through autumn trees towards a hunting lodge

Life · FamilyEighteen: The Same Confusion, in a Different WorldA father and daughter reach eighteen in different times.Continue reading →

Business

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The west coast and Manukau Harbour seen from the Ōmanawanui ridge

Market changes · New Zealand Property Cycle IIINew Zealand Property Cycle III: Across the HillsThis time, we really couldn't make it back on our own.Continue reading →

An excavator entering a green vineyard with an uprooted vine in the foreground

Business observations · Cycles & supplyWhen Vineyards Start Pulling Up VinesWhat a wine crisis reveals about supply, migration, rates and New Zealand property.Continue reading →

Aladdin Kebab exterior

Store observations · Botany JunctionAcross the Counter: AladdinA kebab lunch and a shop owner from Nepal.Continue reading →

The storefront where the 111 call took place

Store observations · An emergency callThe 111 Call from the ShopA stranger's request for help reframed what an emergency call needs.Continue reading →

Project records at an evening desk

Business observations · Process & recordsEveryone Knew About It at the TimeWhy what everyone knew at the time can become difficult to establish later.Continue reading →

Charlie beside a Bentley during the height of the property cycle

Business observations · Property cycleFortunes in the Boom, Liquidations in the BustThe money, cycles and human judgement behind property development.Continue reading →