Life in Wellington, New Zealand, photos, and dogs

For several reasons I've decided to close this blog and incorporate existing and future posts into my main blog, KnowIT.

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From the category archives:

Save the planet

Wild fish? Farmed fish.

Aquaculture now accounts for 50 percent of the fish consumed globally

Read the full article ⍾ Save the planet 13 September 2009 0 comments

Let’s keep our conservation lands intact

The National Government seem to be seeing our Conservation Land as little more than an untapped resource for mining.

Read the full article ⍾ Real life 28 August 2009 0 comments

From billions to zero in 100 flat

The photo may be all that remains.

Read the full article ⍾ Save the planet 7 April 2009 0 comments

Sand and seaweed all alone

School kids on a learning assignment clean up the beach. What a difference!

Read the full article ⍾ Save the planet 30 March 2009 0 comments

Spoiled for water

I was washing my hands this morning: water on, wet hands, water off, soap, lather, lather, lather, water on … But the water didn’t come back on. Suddenly nothing came out of the tap. Cold. Or hot. Or the kitchen tap. Or the outside taps for the garden hose. We were dry. I wiped my [...]

Read the full article ⍾ Real life 5 March 2009 0 comments

Remembering how to ride a bike

It’s not true you know: you do forget how to ride a bike. I grew up riding bikes. It started when I was very little, in London. I recall learning how to ride up and down the hallway of our house. View Larger Map I don’t think it was actually a very large house, but [...]

Read the full article ⍾ Outdoors 17 January 2009 0 comments

The Del Sol is dead; long live the Jazz

Around 11 years ago I bought a new second-hand car, a Honda CRX Del Sol. It was a little red two-seater sports car with a removable roof, and I loved it. It was shiny and beautiful and drove like a dream. Within a few days it had been banged into while parked. That was the [...]

Read the full article ⍾ Real life 13 January 2009 1 comment

Hawai’i and New Zealand – we have much in common

While I was on the Big Island of Hawai’i I took a couple of tours. One took us up to the summit of Mauna Kea, 4,000 metres above sea level. The other took us across the island and down to the lava at Volcano National Park. The photo of the plant shows an endangered Silver [...]

Read the full article ⍾ Save the planet 23 December 2008 0 comments

Dr Jane Goodall inspires, motivates and intrigues

· I had the great privilege today to listen to a talk by Jane Goodall, renowned primatologist, at Wellington Zoo. She was joined by four ‘local heroes’, who each spoke for a few minutes about the ecology programmes they’re involved with: tuatara (as seen in the speaker’s hands in the photo below), frogs, kereru, and [...]

Read the full article ⍾ Save the planet 18 October 2008 0 comments

The disappearing birds

We often hear about numerous ‘endangered’ birds, but as human population and endeavour increases even previously common birds are in decline, according to the BBC NEWS: The populations of the world’s common birds are declining as a result of continued habitat loss, a global assessment has warned. …The State of the World’s Birds 2008 report, [...]

Read the full article ⍾ Save the planet 23 September 2008 0 comments

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