I was sad to read of the collusion between a car and the Wairarapa Line. I read it had happened out of Featherston and if you have taken that commute…
Author: <span>Kirsten Bett</span>
“Was this the best photo you could find of me, and look at our cat tree, it’s all stuffy and I even think I left a nail in it…” Thanks…
“No, it’s not a drumband playing in my house, it’s just my five-month-old kitten banging the hanging extension of my desk,” I explained to a customer on the first Monday…
Sometimes you experience something that can only be described as gezellig. It’s nearly the same as cosy but cosy refers more to a place than to a time. Like a…
It’s been a strange week in the Netherlands. Not so much because Thierry Baudet, the leader of the Forum for Democracy, stepped down. He had not taken sufficient measures against…
At work in Wellington, when I mentioned we were moving to Featherston, I sensed an undertone in people’s reactions that as a non-local I could not place. I even started…
This is the last photo I took of Prince. He always waited for us on the windowsill. This particular day we had been to Tini’s birthday. Tini is Wim’s cousin.…
Max is our kitten. He’s been with us for two weeks, the last to go of Hans and Sjoukje’s double nest. Mother and daughter both had had their kittens on…
of Leeuwarden… Leeuwarden, Friesland in the north of the Netherlands is a great city for cycling. Leeuw is Dutch for lion. Creating one made out of bike parts makes sense.…