It has been raining here in Canterbury for many days. Heavy, non-stop rain that is causing widespread flooding and devastation. The dry...

Sia loves cheap thrills. Baby I don’t need dollar bills to have fun tonight (I love cheap thrills). Excuse me for a second while I sound...

I find myself looking back over my writing and realising that most of my words are describing the weather. How the sounds slip through...

Tonight I went out with two of my best friends for dinner. We went to a popular place in the middle of Christchurch and shared a yummy...

Some thoughts from late November 2020. I have wished on stars all my life. I started as soon as mum taught me the little rhyme, 'star...

Do you know what I've been thinking about lately and really, really missing? School sports exchanges. In the three weeks leading up, that...

A lockdown limerick (ish) There is now a lockdown upon us And I think I would like to discuss It looked quite grave, when I thanked the...

a perfect wild west coast wednesday

Today I went for a walk to the beach. Don't worry it was local. And I wrote my poem from day 6, in the sand. I hope someone read it,...

Kiwi paramedic working in New York City, on One News tonight. "My love of people is greater than my fear of the virus."

Incomprehensible The world is in isolation Trying to make sense Make better While I'm here doing physics The world has stopped But it's...

A thought from 'Chicken Soup for the Soul'. Hang in there xx To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. - David Viscott

Certainty The edge of the ranges have faded with the setting sun. But I know them well and can trace their outline with my finger in the...

The sun still shines above the clouds.

Seen while running: people sitting in camp chairs at the send of their driveway, wine glass in hand, yelling across the road to others at...

Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there someday. - Winnie The Pooh

It's been a sleepy Sunday morning for 6 days now. Pyjamas and pancakes. Books and baking. Trees and tunes. And the sun rises and sets...

Kia Kaha x

Maybe it's a wake up call. Pay more attention. To people. To the planet. Maybe now and after, we'll smile more and say hi more and say...

But when the sheet falls across the sky I can no longer recognise the things which I so easily could. All that was familiar, is no...