Jim visited Bolivia last month. He snapped the beautifully adorned buses for the Bus and Coach Association’s Circular magazine, but avoided travelling on them.
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The festival
Richard went to see some shows at the New Zealand International Arts Festival for scoop.co.nz:
Getting away from it all
Another book review – this time of Going Bush by Kirsty Ross:
‘Against the socially and culturally conservative conservationists, those with “a proper sense of nature”, she sets “mischiefmakers” and “delinquents”.’
Read the whole review on the Scoop Review of Books.
Going Bush is published by Auckland University Press.
Get rich or bust
The Peoples’ Times is an online community news service that lets community groups and individuals communicate among their members and to others, using web technologies such as forums, noticebaords, groups, galleries and rss. It’s free to use.
Richard writes an occasional column. His latest asks whether our government is following the lead of others, such as the US, China and South Korea, in funnelling “economic stimulus” money into energy efficiency and reducing our dependence on oil.
Under a rock
First thing in the morning I am leaving town for two weeks. For the first week I’ll be staying under a rock in Fiordland. You can see where here, at the top left of the photo:
Once I’m back in Wanaka, it’ll be Lewis’s fifth birthday, and then we’ll all make our way back up the Coast to Wellington.
Let’s hear it for Ann Brower
A review by Richard of Ann Brower’s book about the privatisation of the South Island high country is on the Scoop Review of Books. You can read it here.