So says an information board at the Aniwaniwa Visitor Centre at Waikaremoana in Te Urewera National Park. We know this well, so before heading down that way with the tent this weekend, we carefully checked the weather forecast. "Mostly fine, with occasional showers", it advised, and the nice weather charts indicated a high pressure area […]
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Mirror trickery
Last week I heard about for the first time something that is common knowledge to all women in the western world – namely that women’s clothes shops use convex mirrors to make you appear thinner. Since I don’t frequent women’s clothes shops particularly often (I don’t frequent men’s clothes shops more than is strictly necessary, […]
Continue readingSink or swim?
Happy New Year to everyone. I’m back from holidays now – a nice week in Tongariro National Park and then a few days at the beach in Bay of Plenty (hoping there are no sharks out there). One of the disadvantages of living in NZ’s largest inland city is that it takes a special trip to […]
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