I have lived on the Coromandel since I was 15 months old and have witnessed changes to our local environment. The forestry industry and the Waterways development have greatly impacted Mercury Bay
The many people who surprised me with their stories and their kindness. The woman at Kohukohu who fed me rather than have me cycle down and back up a steep hill at the end of the day. The world champion shearer on the station near McKenzie basin who still used traditional blades to work. The 80-year-old English traveller still cycling the world, who was in the SAS looking for Russian spies in English pubs after the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall – who drank a lot of beer and found no spies.movie with your family, friends or significant other, it’s an experience that you share
together.
Listening is something we all do, all the time, wherever we are. At home we listen to our partners, our families, our friends. At work, we listen to our staff, our colleagues, our bosses. But how well do we listen to them?
together.
ast year, I made the decision to stop shaving my legs. I hadn’t necessarily made this choice out of some huge feminist epiphany; it was more the fact that I just couldn’t be bothered doing it anymore.
So what’s the next step in this progression? As far back as the Roman slave revolts led by Spartacus, to the mediaeval peasant rebellions wanting protection from their kings, to
I have lived on the Coromandel since I was 15 months old and have witnessed changes to our local environment. The forestry industry and the Waterways development have greatly impacted Mercury Bay
The many people who surprised me with their stories and their kindness. The woman at Kohukohu who fed me rather than have me cycle down and back up a steep hill at the end of the day. The world champion shearer on the station near McKenzie basin who still used traditional blades to work. The 80-year-old English traveller still cycling the world, who was in the SAS looking for Russian spies in English pubs after the 1989 fall of the Berlin Wall – who drank a lot of beer and found no spies.movie with your family, friends or significant other, it’s an experience that you share
together.
Listening is something we all do, all the time, wherever we are. At home we listen to our partners, our families, our friends. At work, we listen to our staff, our colleagues, our bosses. But how well do we listen to them?
together.
ast year, I made the decision to stop shaving my legs. I hadn’t necessarily made this choice out of some huge feminist epiphany; it was more the fact that I just couldn’t be bothered doing it anymore.
So what’s the next step in this progression? As far back as the Roman slave
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