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Rāhui (Lockdown #1) Day (I need to check, I’ve lost count. Checked it’s Day 38 (40): a few good days, and a few crappy ones. It feels already like today will be one of the latter and the black dog is definitely sniffing at the door, it may already be in the room. As quite […]

I met her On her road to Damascus So I thought Sun shone on the grit sand Glint owning shards of light Spreading them like a warm disease of the mind She wore her hair in unfashionable ringlets Screwtapes missing That was not all Something else was Not quite right She was pretty Hard though […]

Mayday. So, always on the side of the workers, I set up the range. It’s chill bordering on cold. Quiet too. The young man is shooting 70m today. Alone, the park to himself. Except for me, of course. Keeping an eye on the time. And the sheep. An average first day back at school, he […]

I love this story. There was this exhibition called ‘Are We There Yet?’ that celebrated the 125th anniversary of women’s suffrage in Aotearoa and which asked ‘but how far has New Zealand really come since women gained the vote?’ I was asked if it was OK to include me and I said yes imagining it […]

On 26 May 2019 I met Cem Erkal Beşe at the finals of World Archery World Cup #3 in Analya, Türkiye. He was there with his family celebrating the success of the wonderful Turkish team, and, in particular that of a young superstar and soon to be Olympic gold medalist, Mete Gazoz. The entire New […]

Rāhui Day 30 (32): spent much of the day trying to find something to commemorate in lives sacrificed to the gods of money, nationalism, and ego. The ANZAC Days of my childhood were not the jingoistic memorialising of tidied up carnage that they are today, the knowing was still too raw and real. Some men […]

Today I am grateful for service in whatever form it is undertaken. It’s only by giving of ourselves freely in the infinite and never-ending service of others that we can make life on this rock more than just the sum of its parts.

A Tart on Tour Actor: Andrea Kelland Directors: Alison Quigan and Tom Sainsbury Written by Andrea Kelland and Paul Sonne Original Dramaturgy by Deb Filler At The Basement Studio I’m reminded of the words of the inimitable Sir Donald Wolfit as I trudge up the stairs to The Basement Studio. He is reported to have […]

The Wild Created by Julia Croft and Virginia Frankovich Performer Julia Croft Director Virginia Frankovich Designer Michael McCabe Musician Laika Rowntree At Q Loft Theatre 19 to April 2023 Julia Croft and Virginia Frankovich open their programme notes with a reminder: ‘In the last few hard years, we have thought a lot about the capacity […]