Roger Parkinson
Early this month I spent some time in Vanuatu, and some of it was on the island of Santo, including Palikulo Bay which y...
Any dog owner will tell you that dogs are smart. I’m not a dog owner but I had one as a kid. Back then I wasn’t much into noti...
The sheep are in our lower paddock. I’ve labelled them so you can see who is who. We can tell them apart at a glance and sometim...
We’ve just passed a new law here in NZ that is designed to curtail cyber-bullying. It’s a tricky area because of the tension...
We have four sheep. They are pets and they all have names. They don’t actually know they are pets, nor do they know their names,...
There’s the proof. Trousers and socks ablaze. Fortunately I was wearing other trousers at the time.
This time of yea...
We got back from hols and, as you do, turned on the espresso machine. Bang!
What? Turned it off then back on. Nothing....
Here I am listening to a radio broadcast of a panel discussion between several political candidates in our impending general e...
One Law for All. It’s a good slogan and, like Motherhood and apple pie, pretty difficult to object to. Some of our polit...
I live in the woods, so getting the internet here is not as obvious as it is to most of you. I few months back when I re...