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The embers in the fire were fading fast. Edwin glanced over at his wife Miranda and he could see sadness in her eyes.

She has been dubbed the "Happiest Olympic Worker" and is now a YouTube sensation - her deadpan humour has certainly put a smile on the face of nearby onlookers.

Granddad Grayburn hailed from Yorkshire along with my Nannie in the early 1890s. They settled in Mid-Canterbury and built a modest home in the tiny little township of Hinds.

It tells a story about a young Japanese boy Koichi who goes to live at his grandparents' house in Kagoshima with his mother after his parents' divorce.

I think it was about 1970 or so when I saw my first piece of Waitangi Treaty graffiti. It was on the side of a farm building alongside SH1 just south of Dunedin.

The vampires of the Twilight saga saturated modern media for a while, but now they've been booted out by the warriors of The Hunger Games, in which young people in an imaginary society not too removed from our own are selected to fight to the death.

Allan Dick after heart surgery

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It seems that one of the most intensely discussed items on the national agenda in the past month has been the changes to the give way rules.

I love delving into old newspapers to find ancestor stories. Motivated largely by that old saying, those who forget history are doomed to repeat it, I'm digging up tales from yesterday that still speak to us today.