New Zealand Notes

Over the years we all collect articles that intrigue us, make us smile, or challenge us ... don't we, don't you?

Oh, you don't, you're #41 :)

I use Pocket app both on the phone (Android | iOS) and web with associated sharing/extensions (Chrome | Firefox) to tap and save. I usually do this when an article is probably good but looks a bit long at the time. Or, when I know you, dear reader, will lurve it to bits and can't wait for me to pop it onto the blog*

Here's five from over the years all about Aotearoa New Zealand (AoNZ) that are worthy of a read even now.



Metal sign on back of car, "Oamaru Steampunk Capital Of The NZ"

New Zealand’s weirdest and most wonderful town slogans

  • Timaru: Touch, taste, feel Timaru
  • Dunedin: A pretty good plan D
  • Featherston: If you lived here, you’d be home now
  • Stokes Valley: Better than you imagine 
  • Tuatapere: The sausage capital of the world

Wow, and that's just my top five, there more in the article ...



Google Gemini created image: create an image of a yellow mini car in Wellington new zealand

Take this deal all the way to Invercargill

Can your whole country change more than you could conceivably imagine? Could things we perceive to be immutable and unyielding be remade? There’s your proof, right there on the screen. 

What is David talking about, read his article, maybe have a sigh at a missed opportunity and then look forward to it coz it's gonna happen no matter what this Government tries to do.



Google Gemini created image: create an image of silhouettes watching the matariki stars

Future generations will say this is the day Aotearoa-New Zealand 'came of age'

I actually think this (also) happened in 1999 but this is also a grand event:

The first Matariki national holiday is a hugely important “moment in time” for Aotearoa-New Zealand’s unity, says Waikato University te reo, tikanga and philosophy Professor Sir Pou Temara.



Toni Croon leading a tour to Splatter Rock with the Nature Photographic Society of NZ. MONIQUE FORD / STUFF

Women of the Chathams talk about life on the remote New Zealand islands

Remote, sparsely populated, weather-beaten, wild - it takes a certain kind of person to live on Rēkohu, Chatham Islands. Four women share their stories of living on that misty archipelago. Bess Manson reports.



Blue 'tsunami safety' line on a Miramar line

The Coming Megaquake in New Zealand

Tad concerning ... better to be forewarned?



* blog: a truncation of "weblog", is an informational website consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries (posts).

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