#new-zealand

My rubbish collector quoted a brand new customer $47 less than I pay after eight years of loyalty. It's completely legal, and it's everywhere.

Twenty-one years of band names typed by hand leaves a fossil record of human inconsistency. Here's what it took to tidy up the Matinee Idle archive.

A love letter to Matinee Idle, a cult radio show, and the rabbit hole it sent me down. With 21 years of archive data, 15,411 songs, and one very strange most-played track.

An easy 3 ingredient feijoa ice cream recipe. No fuss, no complicated steps. Perfect for using up feijoas in season.

A few photos I've taken over the 23/24 summer. Waimarama holiday park at sunset Riding bikes at Waimarama holiday park Wild flower Flowers Waimarama beach...

In June this year I came across an excellent blog post by A ustralian Hacker, Haxrob about a common Bluetooth car battery monitor siphoning up your location...

I've posted photos of native birds I occasionally see in my front yard a few times ( here , here and here ). The increase in birds visiting my home isn't...

Probably the best perk of being able to work from home is the view out of my window sill office out on to a massive pohutukawa tree. While I've lived here for...

One of the first things we did when we moved into our house over a decade ago was plant a bunch of feijoa trees. They were the first fruit trees we had ever...

A Kākā visits our pohutukawa tree on a Sunday morning. This is the only good photo I could get of him - the neighbors cat was on the ground looking up at him,...

We’ve been in Level 4 lockdown for two weeks now - today is our last day before we move down to L3. While I miss heading into town, meeting up with people etc,...

During the summer in Wellington it’s nice to get out for a walk at lunchtime (when I’m working in the office). Here are a couple of photos I’ve taken over the...