Life in NZ – The First 10 Years (2006 to 2016)

April 3, 2006

Published by bruce at April 3, 2006

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The social whirl

Monday April 3, aboard the Cook Straight Ferry, travelling from the North Island to the South Island. Today is my “American Birthday,” since it’s April 2nd in the US. Yesterday was my New Zealand birthday, 2nd April here, and what a birthday it was and is, capping several days of […]

March 28, 2006

Published by Kathy at March 28, 2006

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More on Permaculture

We never really talked some of the cool things we saw and learned at Mara Whenua about permaculture and I recently realized that many folks don’t know what we’re talking about when we tell them we spent a week at an awesome permaculture ‘farm’. So, I thought it’d be worthy […]

March 25, 2006

Published by bruce at March 25, 2006

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It’s a Big Country

The last five days have been a blur. Too much activity! After all that talk about pacing you would think we would have figured it out, but no, we keep trying to pack too much in. Part of this is coming from our realization that this is a big country! […]

March 22, 2006

Published by bruce at March 22, 2006

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20-20 hindsight

Back in Auckland last night and tonight for a one-day laundry, internet, exercise, and comfort stopover. The drive down from the far north yesterday was long, through increasing concentrations of civilization, the ultra-hip crowd at the Victoria Super Market, the car noise in Auckland, the flat taste of all the […]