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In a glacier for 42 years

In a glacier for 42 years

Glacier’s are in the news in recent years where commentators claims they are disappearing and other commentators say they are growing. This is 2020 follies..

  • A great idea for Country Town Tours

    I cannot recall how many times I have written about our fabulous Country Town Tours. This in essence taking an athlete or coach to a region or country town and they speak at schools, service clubs, rallies, youth groups ….

  • Energy storage

    This article is not a document favouring one form of energy over another. Rather is a review on energy storage.

  • God is speaking

    We have an amazing privilege to be partners with what God desires to do in the earth in this time but it calls for a greater sensitivity to His will and instructions.

  • Disturbing fashion

    In 2013, in Dhaka Bangladesh, an eight story building housing a bank, apartments, shops and garment factories collapsed, killing 1,134 and injuring 2,500 more.

  • The new normal

    With the announcement that New Zealand was at Level 3 alert for covid-19, then going into Level 4 lockdown in 48 hours not too many weeks ago, all that was normal was thrown topsy-turvy. Many weeks into it now, we have our own new normal.

  • Oodles of skills invaluable

    What skills are being lost. I dug out of my archive a News Daily article that ran a fascinating piece on 17 skills we're losing with the advent of technology and some of these are pretty obvious: hand writing a letter; conversation; meeting new people, walking, reading a map, understatement, reading a newspaper and many others.

  • Understanding loneliness

    We were all born single, yet we all come out with an innate desire for companionship. We see it in a baby’s desire to be fed, held, carried, played with, etc.

  • Are you still watching?

    “Are you still watching?” My biggest issue with seeing this question pop up on Netflix is actually considering how many episodes I’ve actually been watching to warrant being asked this question. We’ve all been utilising our time at home differently.

  • Sport is not Sport     

    Over the past two years I have written on this drama where the courts have stepped in to make sport decisions.

  • Buying on-line

    One of my daughters who lives in Melbourne purchases her groceries on-line. There are hundreds of thousands of people purchasing items of all persuasions on-line. Take for example jewellery – earlier this year another such chain of stores went into voluntary administration.  

  • Leading Out Of A Storm

    From Wednesday 25th March 2020 New Zealand moved into Alert Level 4 – full lockdown. My generation had not known anything like it, being confined to our homes barring a walk around our own neighbourhood, which fortunately meant the golden sands of the East Coast Bays beaches here on the North Shore of Auckland.