As a rate payer there are a range of services you expect to be provided – collecting rubbish and recycling for example. The kiwi way of doing this is for people to buy special bags at the supermarket and a recycling box and then put them outside the house at the appointed time/day. This way [...]

It being Easter means that life in NZ has ground to a slower pace. I’m not complaining, its just there isn’t much to report on though beyond the fact that: – today the local commuter trains to and from Upper Hutt were cancelled due to failed infrastructure (yes, that’s the line MT will be commuting [...]

Can you believe a long standing afternoon engagement with my team to partake of the traditional Easter bun went ahead without me yesterday as I had to step into my bosses shoes and attend a meeting for her. It gets worse. The reason why she didn’t want to go was that she having a post [...]

Avid blog readers will recall that last year I blogged about a rape case where serving policemen were aquitted of charges. The same police were aquitted again in a similar case a few weeks ago. What came out at this point is that two of the defendents were actually serving prison sentences – you guessed [...]