Bronnie and me on the roof of the museum

smashing museum, blustery morning

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February 5th 2007
It's 8.30 am and outside there's a gale going off, making the boring view a little bit more dramatic :-) I'm off to Coromandel later this morning, so hopefully that wind will blow the clouds away - southwards preferably! Yesterday, after a rather windy and wet morning at Pukehina Beach with Bronnie and some of her friends (since she's only just come back from GB after nearly 8 years away there' ... read more

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The Polynesian Maori reached New Zealand in about A.D. 800. In 1840, their chieftains entered into a compact with Britain, the Treaty of Waitangi, in which they ceded sovereignty to Queen Victoria while retaining territorial rights. In that same year... ... read more