They thought they'd gotten away with it. Until now.

I've been back from my South Island roadie for a few weeks now and I've yet to download my pics from the trip which means the missus...

Looks like a South Island road-trip is coming up, Yii Haa. So excited to not only visit a very old friend way down yonder, but keen to...

I've never publicly talked about this, but it's significant.

I'm a strange bugger and an impatient sod. For someone who rails at impediments and hold-ups in many areas of my life ...

Type it into your diary, scratch it onto the back of your hand, gouge it with a bent nail across your front fender: 'Villainous Newtown'...

Got some rather exciting news to feed into the new writing year. I was named a runner up in the Sisters in Crime US 2023 Pride Award for...

When I got several messages that Renee had died, I was camped by the ocean. I’d had my phone off for days. It had been a wild old night....

Trigger warning: Semi-rant follows. So, funny thing. Not. In the lead-up to the recent election, when the now-in-power righty-tighty...

It rained. And rained. And it kept on raining. And it was bitter cold. Despite this, I finished most of the Capri fit-out and externals;...

So, this old girl needs to go. She's nearly 50 years old and needs a spruce-up top to bottom and inside-out. A mighty big order. This is...

The missus has an upcoming exhibition up North and I want to be there to support her, plus a roadie is long overdue. However, my little...

The missus came in yesterday looking disturbed. In her hand, one of her prized "lady tools", the Kent and Stowe pruning snips, jaws...

On a recent trip, parked up by the sea, I got talking with a friendly fellow who had noticed my camper and pick-up in the past. He was...

I've never had a proper workshop, a dry organised place to keep tools where there's clean bench-space to work on projects. Having lived...

After putting a cob plaster coating on the lower earthbag walls, I lined the ceiling with the same hessian I’d used in my stealth camper....

We’re making a few changes around the garden and sheds for my new workshop space and I’m turning an old hut into the new chook house,...

After several trips with the little beast, I figured it could ride better. The inside is cozy and dry and everything works well as a...

We’d just dropped a 17m high holly tree at a friend’s property. The massive trunk split in two when it thumped into the ground and...

"Where's Sticky?" The missus asked. Well, here's Sticky's little niece or distant cousin. Colour does seem to indicate familial...