Before I started radiation treatment I used to fly around the country on business 3-4 times a month which meant I become a Gold Frequent Flyer with Air New Zealand, which gave me free membership in the

Have you ever wanted to have a vanity number plate? I've thought about it, but they are so expensive and I'd want to be able to change it regularly. I guess you could do that with number plate surrounds.

This seems to be a new trendy way of making a living without having a bus. I don't know how it works, but they must have some arrangement with various business areas and every month or so a bunch of them

Our streets are getting really busy. Our public transport isn't great so lots of people drive to work, all at roughly the same time. Many of them are only one person per car which is pretty crazy and

Do yours look like this? Not only do the gas stations look different around the world, the way you pay for them varies too. In New Zealand you can pay at the pump or in the store. In some cases you have

This is in Devonport in Auckland. Summer is just around the corner although it has been so wet lately that views like this have been rare., so when there is a nice sunset, you will see a lot of people

It's funny, sometimes when I visit other people who have great views from their office, I think how lucky they are, but my view isn't that bad either. I mean, a lot of people don't have any view at all.

I much prefer a mural to tagging. I think it's much more cool to create art than to deface a wall don't you agree?

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Every year our family has a horseshoe throwing competition on Boxing Day, the day after Christmas Day. The competition starts about 1PM and goes till late. There are usually about 15 teams of two people

I don't know what sort of mushrooms these are, but I suspect they are not healthy. I had a friend who was fed some mushrooms in Nepal and she came home very ill and paralyzed for a couple of months. Not

How about a nice cold beer? The simple things in life, like a cold beer on a hot summer's day, perhaps with a friend or two.

Before the Christchurch Earthquake, I was in the tower that you can't see in this picture You had to climb a very narrow spiral stone staircase to get up to the top, which had an awesome view to Cathedral

Auckland city is one of constant change. It is one of significant growth and it is being designed to grow even faster than ever before. It is a hot pot of cultures, we have many Asians, especially Chinese,

These Pohutukawa trees are cliff huggers. They have massive root systems that usually hold cliffs together, but as erosion from climate change, heavy rain and subtropical storms keep hitting them they

If I was hungry and starving, maybe, but I'm not sure I would eat dog by choice. I have eaten a few things in Japan and asked what they were and was told "I'm not sure". I never found out whether

Besides the horrific massacre at the country music concert in Las Vegas one of the things that concerned me was that the guy bought some of his weapons from a store called Guns and Guitars. It almost seemed

I see it everywhere and it drives me nuts. Whether it's printed or digital newspapers, books by top authors, articles, or in this header from FOX. News services stand out the most because you expect good

See the darker colored bits on the left hand side, that's where huge chunks of rock have fallen off. See the cracks on the right hand side? That's where rainwater has seeped all the way through from the

This is around the corner from my home and has all been sold to developers because we have a major shortage of real estate in Auckland. Very soon, instead of pasture, cows and hay bales it will be densely