My regular jaunt to Newtown on Saturday to visit the market and have a good coffee in the very popular Café Baobab. Today on the walls is a wonderful painting of a prowling tiger. I am strangely attracted to it and it's for sale. I'd better leave quickly before the temptation becomes a folly.
A lethal tiger and lethal blooms in the forest...
This is an important NZ fight for voluntary euthanasia. The widower has written a book about the ignoble death of his wife last year.
Looking on to Riddiford Road...
Interesting article about the major problem of child and family abuse in NZ. Lots more money needed for education in why this happens.
This successful Pasifika man died at only 46.....
..whereas Burt lived to a good age of 87....why the differences I wonder? Indigenous and Pasifika life expectancy is very low, but when will the studies show the reasons?
This excellent book about Maori origins and the Tangata Whenua will no doubt become a classic volume.
Peter Gordon, chef extraordinaire in London and the world, was born and bred in Whanganui. He was trained however in his cooking skills in Melbourne...
He is now living wirh his male partner in London but returns often to NZ.
No comments:
Post a Comment