Interests

I've spent the past week on the road with plenty of time to think.

Few Kiwis have packed as much in to their lives as Penny Whiting - destined for a life at sea, 2012 marks her 45th anniversary of teaching sailing and at age 62 she is showing no signs of slowing down.

The internet can be a pretty scary place. I can understand people's concern, especially with recent press releases about how the CIA use information of people online to catch criminals, and spy on the nation.

Denis Robinson has compiled a moving tribute to Christchurch with a collection of paintings of the city as it was before the devastating earthquakes of 2010 and 2011.

My first father-in-law was Cecil James Crawford. He was what you used to call a good, old-fashioned neighbourhood cop. In the fifties, his beat was where he lived. And he kept a lid on an area that had the potential to turn rough.

More yarns from 'Big Al' Lester, the modern-day master of the hunting genre.

Some interesting thoughts and teasers to keep you up at night.

Mighty Rome decided that the system in place was just to difficult to manage and the Romans needed something that would become world wide in use, so they set to work make a calendar that would be used throughout their whole empire.

We have been researching these scams now for more than two years and we have yet to come across one that is bona fide in other words for real.

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