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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.

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Mai mai Southland is hot

Southland’s summer hasn’t disappointed nutrient specialist Rachael Hoogenboom.

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Deep malaise creeping in

As the rockets rain down on Kyiv, Rober Carter finds a leaky waka back home.

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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.

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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.

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As Putin’s war rages

David Walston in Hertfordshire, England, reflects on the war devastating Ukraine and its impact.

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Error rate climbs with age

Andrew Steven has made the most of an unusually wet summer in South Canterbury.

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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.

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Time to fight gravity

The big four zero beckons for Charlotte Rietveld as she contemplates where the years have flown.

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He Waka and the stages of grief

After digging a tractor out of the mud, Richard Reynolds goes digging into the He Waka Eke Noa proposals.

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