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Previous | Contents | Next § 10 August 1980: The Air Nauru flight is turbulent, flying through cloud most of the time. The hostess is generous, giving us a cooked breakfast when we ask for extra sandwiches. Nauru is more grey drizzle. The runway is as long as the island is wide and ... Read more
Sunda Kelapa 1992, Peter Connolly photos § This wasn’t our first visit to Indonesia. We’d spent a couple of days in Bangkok on a round the world adventure in 1980, and a few weeks on Bali a bit after that. I’d also had a week or two’s work trip on ... Read more
Previous | Contents | Next Our part-time jobs didn’t help. Heather’s was as a dental assistant, and that leather handbag she made for her Mum at Ruapehu Street was the first glimmer of her handcraft career. My first job was in the Auckland Hospital IVS unit, as I’ve already mentioned. ... Read more
Previous | Contents | Next I can only remember two teachers at Hikurangi Primary. Mr Manktelow’s class room was a converted church hall up the road from the school. We learnt the alphabet and our times tables by reciting them together in class. I liked him in a subordinate kind ... Read more
Previous | Contents | As you can imagine, this mature married man found student politics shallow in the extreme, although I won’t try and justify that opinion here. Well OK, there was one young guy with long black hair and a duffle coat who used to stride into Pol. Sci. tutorials looking like ... Read more