After venturing onto the eastern-most island of Aotearoa – Rekohu – with its unfamiliar landscapes and communities, it’s very comforting to drop back into our favourite seaside cottage- Lupin Lodge, at Orua Bay on the northern tip of the Awhitu Peninsula. We’ve been coming here together for short breaks for thirty years, beginning when we […]
Happy Solstice Greetings…
December 18, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Whether you are experiencing summer, as here, or your winter, in the North…wherever you are, we hope you enjoy a festive season with family and friends, and a fine new year to come. And we rejoice in the belief that at last we have a government in Aotearoa which, in the words of our Treaty […]
On the move..
November 19, 2017 by 4 Comments
Outside our house we’ve been delighting in summer weather and shades of purple in the garden. Inside, we’re surrounded by bags and boxes and more boxes, and bits and pieces still to be shed, as we enter the last ten days of our preparations for moving. One of the good features of this process […]
Welcome back, Lema!
November 19, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Lema Shamamba: educator and film-maker We have mentioned Lema Shamamba and her family before in our newsletter- they are good friends of ours – and Lema has become a community leader in Ranui, with support from Ranui Action Project staff. Lema decided this year to return to the DR Congo to visit her family, whom […]
National Telling Lies!!!
September 20, 2017 by Leave a Comment
I am so angry with the lies (or faked news) being spread by the Nats- even Bill English, for whom I have had some respect until now. . Labour is NOT increasing personal income tax- if they are elected income tax will be the same for wealthier people, and so there […]
Moving On…
September 19, 2017 by 3 Comments
In July we wrote about our big decision to leave Earthsong, and carefully prepared a “For Sale ” page for the Earthsong website. The response to the Earthsong website was immediate, and within a couple of weeks we had a keen buyer, and hope to finalise the sale next month. So we spent August looking […]
Election 2017
September 19, 2017 by 2 Comments
What an extraordinary election campaign we are experiencing here in Aotearoa! For those living outside Aotearoa, a summary of some key events: We’ve lost two party leaders – Andrew Little from Labour, who resigned with dignity to allow his deputy, Jacinda Adern, to become leader; and Meteria Turei, from the Greens, whose attempts to draw […]
A fierce footnote
September 19, 2017 by 2 Comments
I can’t stand the term “ethnic cleansing”. There’s nothing clean about persecution, rape, mutilation and murder of a group of human beings because of their ethnicity, religion or political beliefs. Tell the truth, for goodness sake –”attempted ethnic extermination”, or “forced ethnic relocation”… genocide…hatred and criminal violence…inexcusable evil… Every day we’re hearing this term used […]
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