It doesn’t matter when we celebrate, only that we do. Genealogy is all about family: discovering your ethnic branch, your indigenous roots, your European connections and the names of your ancestors. Family is what ties people together. If you…
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19 September 2023: Celebrating 130 years of women’s suffrage in New Zealand
Women today have much to be grateful for, thanks to the endeavours of women like Kate Sheppard who led the New Zealand Suffrage movement, and Amey Daldy, a major character in Lucy, book 3 of The Art of Secrets…
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Now is not the time to take our rights and our democracy for granted
Kate Sheppard would be turning in her grave if she’d been listening to some of the chatter I’ve heard recently. And so would Lucy, (from The Art of Secrets series) the fervent young suffragist who, alongside thousands of other…
The first week disappeared in a flash. Despite a day of grey skies and an afternoon of rain, that was the last. We were not to see rain again for fifteen days. A record! It took us a couple…
Are you ready? Lucy, the determined suffragist, is on her way. She’ll be here soon, but it’s a long way from 1893. But first, do you know Emma? Let me introduce you. Emma lives in New Zealand. She loves…
Welcome to the first blog of 2023 To say the year has not started off well for many living in New Zealand is an understatement. While Te Waipounamu the South Island bathed in summer sunshine, Mother Nature showed her…
As many of you know, I delve into the past quite a lot. I’m always looking for a story – an anchor for my next character to get involved with – and found myself fascinating by the late 19th…
Followers of this blog will already know that my other half and I do a lot of travelling. We hitch up our caravan and take the slow and easy-path for weeks on end to discover this beautiful country. During…
Part Two of my cruisy life comes to you from… my bedroom. Struck down by Covid, I’ve finally found the strength to tap a few keys, but I’d prefer to look back to when we were raring to go…
Every summer and often in between, we, as in OH and I, pack up our caravan and head to a different area of New Zealand to investigate the nooks and crannies we don’t know about. Every summer, we say…