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What Is different? What Is the Same?

What Is different? What Is the Same?

Peter Allan Williams Writer and broadcaster for half a century. Now watching from the sidelines although verbalising thoughts on www.reality check.radio three days a week peterallanwilliams.substack.com London in the autumn is decidedly pleasant. Despite almost annual trips to the British capital from the late ‘nineties ’90s

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Random Thoughts After a Week Away
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Random Thoughts After a Week Away

Peter Allan Williams Writer and broadcaster for half a century. Now watching from the sidelines although verbalising thoughts on www.reality check.radio three days a week peterallanwilliams.substack.com London in the autumn is decidedly pleasant. Despite almost annual trips to the British capital from the late nineties till

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65-Year-Old First Person to Solo Kayak the Greater Loop

65-Year-Old First Person to Solo Kayak the Greater Loop

goodnewsnetwork.org After 268 days in his kayak, a 65-year-old has completed his epic ‘Reverse the Bad’ expedition, becoming the first person to solo kayak the Greater Loop across Canada and the United States. The journey of almost 6,800 miles (11,000km) required Mark Fuhrmann to paddle for 1,

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Are We Aiming High Enough?

Mahesh Muralidhar Venture Capitalist commonroomnz.com This article was first published by The Common Room “There is only one word for New Zealand – EPIC!” said Bear Grylls. New Zealand is epic. Our young beautiful country. Our modern-day democracy has punched above its weight and has had the confidence and identity

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The Nebraska Itasca: Living on the Road

The Nebraska Itasca: Living on the Road

Monica Hughes PhD themariachiyears.substack.com A few months after moving back to the USA from New Zealand in 2021, I flew from Nebraska to Idaho to slap down a few thousand dollars cash for a 1978 Winnebago Itasca. Below are some photos taken upon purchase. It had barely changed

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How to Survive Wild Tasmania

How to Survive Wild Tasmania

I always wondered why Bear Grylls never filmed an episode of Man vs Wild in Tasmania. Tasmania is, of course, famous for both its wilderness and its cold weather. But few people seem to realise just how much both combine to make much of the island bleak and inhospitable. That’

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You Will Go Nowhere and Be Happy

Marc Morano Marc Morano manages CFACT’s award-winning ClimateDepot.com news and information service. He is the award-winning producer, writer and host of CFACT’s Climate Hustle feature films. Marc served as a reporter for “Rush Limbaugh the Television Show” and as a senior advisor to Senator James Inhofe. cfact.

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Lessons for ‘Democratic’ NZ from Vietnam

The Editor dailytelegraph.co.nz I am currently in Vietnam for a long-planned family trip. My wife is Vietnamese and we have brought our three-year-old son here to visit his grandma and maternal relatives for the first time. This is my fourth visit to this fascinating country, but the first

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A Mobile Life: Part Four

Wanderer Part IV: Living the Dream The trailer was functional by May 2021 and I moved in. The layout pleased me but it was cold, so cold. Even with the insulation we had installed, the aluminium studs acted as heat sinks so the temperature outside become the temperature inside. I

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A Mobile Life: Part Three

Wanderer Part III: Building the House In Part II, we covered “Choosing the Vehicle“. With the vehicle in place, it was time to start building. Fine tuning the design and building the house took about five months from start to live-in. An engineer advised me to build everything in 40x40x3

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A Mobile Life: Part Two

Wanderer Part II: Choosing a Vehicle In Part I, we looked at setting the context of a life on the road. My context was poor-road, cross-border travel with no home base. I also had a few things I wasn’t prepared to let go of as little luxuries are important

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A Mobile Life: Part One

A Mobile Life: Part One

Wanderer It all started with a cruise, a bit more than a decade ago. Looking for a different way to holiday with the family, we booked a small, inside cabin on a P&O liner, boarded, unpacked our stuff and spent 10-12 glorious days wandering around the ship as

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My First Post Mortem

My First Post Mortem

David Theobald Preamble May 1974 finds me in possession of the degree of Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery from the University of London at St Mary’s Hospital Medical School. I was 22 years old. A fully qualified but not fully registered doctor. To be a ‘proper’ quack

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What You Need to Pack for a Trip to Niue

James Ackhurst “With the dogs there is no problem. You just bring a good stick with you, and when the dog comes near, you hit him hard on the head. Then he will not chase you.” Such was the advice I received from the man who’d given me a

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