This is a version of an article published in the Whangarei Leader of 3 July 2012. The photo was taken by Richard Cranenburgh, artist and designer. Shari Pickering is full of bubbles when it comes to people who have managed to make life work for themselves. She and her partner, Richard Cranenburgh, quietly opened their […]
A few years ago, I realised that the biography I had written about Yvonne Rust, QSM (Yvonne Rust: Maverick Spirit – David Ling, 2011) would eventually be published, and that, logically, it would be launched and I would be required to speak at that launch. I was concerned about the prospect of having to speak one day […]
New vehicle sagas – now two months old my new second-hand car absolutely flummoxed me when I couldn’t find a button to open the rear passenger windows (see Dumb, or Dumber). You’d think that I’d have developed a marginal knowledge about the features of my car by now. I’d thought I had. The other day […]
Pleased with the purchase of a new second hand car, I drove it 1000 kms home. It was as smooth as a sewing machine and the power was phenomenal. I’d gone up from a 2.2 to a 2.4. I particularly enjoyed the electric windows – a feature I never wanted in a vehicle because I […]
Chris and Rhonda Hensley at Houhora, 40kms north of Kaitaia, are spat collectors. Chris, who was raised at Ngataki, and Ronda, also manage a mussel farm and have a feijoa orchard. “I began helping collect mussel spat for distribution to mussel farmers with Dad in 1978,” says Chris. “Until then MAF had been the […]
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