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Photo of small art deco apartment block in Wellington, New Zealand.

Air Be and Be—a poem

April 26, 2019

I’m an AirBnB host in Mount Victoria, Wellington, New Zealand. A series of always delightful people stay with me for 2–5 days if and when it suits us both.

Little home, lucky home, big home

August 23, 2016

“Have you ever paused to contemplate the idea of home?” asks Robyn Haynes in her blog, Big Dreams for a Tiny Garden. On a trip to Outback Queensland, she felt a deep connection with the land, and her sense of home expanded from house, garden and family to something much broader—Australia. (I’ve distorted her thought flow by summarising it — […]

Home maintenance in old age

August 19, 2016

In which I am torn between an old age of grubby indolence (tempting) with the officious whip-cracking of a body corporate. Have you noticed a tendency of older people to stop dusting and cleaning and fixing up their homes? My sisters and I suspect that late in life our mother did zero housework. A nice helper went […]