Day three of the road trip and we revisit Eastwoodhill
Our revised road trip includes a revisit to Eastwoodhill. And I attempt the impossible.
The road trip! It’s day two, part two, and we’re at C Company House.
C Company House tells the story of loss and sacrifice with aroha.
It’s a road trip – day two
We discover, not for the first time, that we are easily sidetracked.
It’s a revised road trip – day one.
Our luck changes and I revisit the beach of my childhood.
Eastwoodhill – a tree lover’s sanctuary
Never heard of Douglas Cook? Me neither. Or at least not until I visited Eastwoodhill, the arboretum he established between the 1930s and 1960s. Cook was a little eccentric for his times. Gardening in the nude and reciting poetry, as well as loving trees, weren’t the usual preoccupations of […]
Summer comes early in Gisborne
Gisborne. Where the surf rolls in and the surfies are always out, where the sun shines and the beaches are sandy. And where, the summer I was five, I stubbed my toe in a headlong rush across the road to get to the water. It was a beauty […]
Jill's Scene 
The korero