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Time to buy a Lotto ticket
Chris Biddles finds his usual optimism seriously challenged as 2022 unfolds.
What about the rain?
A dry summer means there’s not enough grass reserves going into winter for Suzie and Paul Corboy on their southern farm.
Taking each day as it comes
Spending some time out for a little contemplation in this country of ours can be pretty spectacular, reckons Paul Burt.
Mai mai Southland is hot
Southland’s summer hasn’t disappointed nutrient specialist Rachael Hoogenboom.
Deep malaise creeping in
As the rockets rain down on Kyiv, Rober Carter finds a leaky waka back home.
Ode to Joy
With the world around us going to hell in a handcart, for Mark Chamberlain the loss of his mother-in-law is the lowest blow.
Me and a dog named Blue
Micha Johansen has inherited a dog who is as crazy as Trevor Mallard with Spotify and a speaker, but a lot less mean.
As Putin’s war rages
David Walston in Hertfordshire, England, reflects on the war devastating Ukraine and its impact.
Error rate climbs with age
Andrew Steven has made the most of an unusually wet summer in South Canterbury.
Dear Aunty Thistledown,
After a tough drought, then flood, then possibly drought again I have inadvertently taken up mono-cropping. I have the thickest stand of pure organic thistles you have ever seen.