Nigeness

Today I heard that Joe Cocker had died, and read that Richie Havens had. Rock stars' deaths have been coming so thick and fast lately th...

Sparrows - House Sparrows - are everywhere in Wellington, along with many other familiar English birds: Starlings, Blackbirds, Chaffinches, ...

One of the many things I like about this city of Wellington - and one of the most unexpected - is the wonderful variety of building styles...

Saw a couple of these little beauties in Wellington's Botanic Garden yesterday (where the Hydrangea dell is looking really spectacular...

Yesterday I made my way to the Wellington suburb of Thorndon to visit Katherine Mansfield House, the author's birthplace and childhood h...

How many butterfly species occur in New Zealand? (Don't pretend you don't care, you know this matters...) My Butterflies of New Zeal...

I've just noticed that a piece I wrote about Philip Larkin's remarkable novel A Girl in Winter is up on The Dabbler .