Monday, June 09, 2025

Up the Mount

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I took advantage of some relatively fine weather today. I decided to climb Mauao, something I haven't done in a long time. According to ...
Sunday, June 08, 2025

The Rotorua redwoods

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On the edge of Rotorua you’ll find a six hectare grove of Californian Coastal Redwoods, part of the Whakarewarewa State Forest Park. The tre...
Wednesday, June 04, 2025

The year that was

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Yesterday, my brothers and I paused to reflect and remember the first anniversary of our mother's death . It was a day of conflicting em...
Sunday, June 01, 2025

Vivid memories

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Vivid Sydney is an annual festival held in Sydney. For the last 15 years, over five weeks, the cold, dark nights of winter have been trans...
Sunday, May 11, 2025

Home sweet home

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Last month marked 21 years living in our apartment in Redfern. It’s hard to believe it’s been two decades since we bought the property. I n...
Saturday, May 10, 2025

Coming up next

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Surprise, surprise, we've got plenty of travel scheduled in the months ahead. This year is quietly morphing into something that feels li...
Monday, May 05, 2025

Landslide election

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Australian politics was transformed by last weekend’s Federal election. Against all expectations, the Australian Labor Party returned to po...
Saturday, May 03, 2025

The man who saved my life

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Few people have heard of Lieutenant Colonel Stanislava Petrov. He was a system engineer assigned to Servikov-15, a command-and-control bunke...
Saturday, April 26, 2025

Thailand done and dusted

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I've finally found time to publish a series of posts about our time in Thailand. While our trip was primarily for business, we managed ...