During the early 1980s, I lived in Auckland for some time, well on and off, depending on how life treated me.
Category: Family History
Hotel Buller and Uncle Bill
During the 1940s, my great Uncle Bill (Nana Ballard's brother) worked, visited or did both at the Hotel Buller in Westport.
A Genial Gardener
A tribute to Uncle Danny, a man I only knew for approximately a quarter of his 80+ years, though the Squire knew him all of his.
Uncle Fred & The Whitebait Season
Sometimes Spring isn't always about those pretty blossoms.
Nostalgia can be a seductive liar
Past images draw us in seductively before we are aware of that happening; we are reminiscing and perhaps wishing that we were back in the day of that event.