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So, I’ve recently taken custodianship of a stack of papers ranging from letters to certificates to photographs to goodness knows what. It’s both exciting and scary to have a new…

Last month I spent three very busy weeks in Otago, supported once again by the wonderful people at the Robert Lord Trust in Dunedin – plus loads of others from…

Winner Outstanding Contribution to Heritage Award

Take Me With You! has landed. A nice piece of news in a week of funerals.

Very nice to have a couple of newly published pieces out to share – both written at the Robert Lord Cottage in Dunedin.

This ANZAC weekend is really turning on the sun at our place, and being still in Lockdown Level 4 until Tuesday means I am making the most of it. Life…

I have just completed the first week of my second stint at the Robert Lord Writers’ Cottage in Dunedin.  I was offered a residency in two parts – three weeks…

It was heart-warming and humbling to be part of the 2019 ANZAC Day commemorations at Kaiparoro’s ANZAC Memorial Bridge. Many people from the wider local community and a large number…

far and away the majority of memorial types were erected in the aftermath of World War I in New Zealand. Jock Phillips makes this clear in his summary of First…

It is totally fitting that Whakahirahira is my home-from-home while I’m on the ANZAC Memorial Bridge Fellowship. The house is modern and wonderfully luxurious, and I have been very well…