Following on from my previous post about the dimunition of free and frank advice in the public sector performance (Are we well-served by...

Forget about what Pixie thinks, Beyond Manapouri: 50 years of environmental politics in New Zealand has been short-listed for the New...

Earlier this week, I was privileged to be invited to participate on a panel discussing proposed changes to the State Sector Act, hosted...

In my last post, I shared the astounding revelation that sheep are good at maths. But we now have irrefutable evidence that they also...

On Tuesday 25th September we had our last lambs. The last of the floppy-eared three had twins: one black and one white. This followed the...

We had come to the conclusion that lambs would either be born all black or all white, and in an alternate sequence, as it turns out. (The...

A picture of Bliss. Mum snoozing in the afternoon sun with Pinch and Punch (or maybe Punch and Munf, or Munf and Pinch ...?) The birth of...

Next, it was the turn of one of the 'Pohangina Three' (two of whom lost lambs to pneumonia last year [see: Sheep Diaries - the...

Last time I wrote [Sheep diaries - Our first lambs], the fate of Fatty and her triplets hung in the balance. We had intervened to save...

It is a momentous day. Our son, Carter, has reached double figures! Carter was born 10 years ago at Wellington Hospital. At 4.3kg, he...