Before sunrise at Martin's Bay, January 2024 I'm glad to live in a temperate climate in which you can exercise outdoors most of the year...

Three main challenges currently confront the trail runners of the North Shore; storm damage from last summer, Kauri dieback trail...

Just another reminder of our shared service organisation for this summer. As per our previous arrangements, any named offerings will be...

Seine Rd. panorama with Pohutukawa The Pohutukawa seem particularly good this year, blooming as if in sync with Advent. Hopefully they...

Summer is often a time for cultivating tomatoes and various other plants. If summer returns to something resembling normal, I'll have to...

Advent begins and on a three year cycle just like that we are in year B, which focuses on the Gospel of Mark. You will know by now that...

‘From the fig tree learn its lesson: as soon as its branch becomes tender and puts forth its leaves, you know that summer is near.'...

Lately, when I do a long run on my day off from Forrest Hill to Devonport and back, I stop somewhere in Devonport for a long black...

I exited the dentist at noon on Monday with only half my face working, and having been instructed not to eat, drink or rinse for an hour....

This week my bits and pieces of study leave comes to an end. The small matter of finishing the final essay for my supervision course...

I can see the mountain, and I might want to go there, but what obstacles are in my path that I have no knowledge of, and have not...

Is November really upon us? Soon it will be Christmas with all its busy-ness and chaos. This seat in the bush on a hairpin bend reminds...

My running club, being one of the oldest in Auckland, has some people who have been around for a while. We are not full of sprightly...

City from Forrest Hill in evening light Oct 2023 There's a run I often do from home up to Forrest Hill and down into Centennial Park for...

Tamaki River looking West from Farm Cove, Pakuranga It's difficult to summarise a General Assembly of the PCANZ due to the intensity of...

Since Wednesday I've been at General Assembly which is being held at St Kentigern College in Pakuranga. I haven't been on the East side...

Sulphur Flats Lake Rotorua - Sept 2023 Rotorua is very beautiful in places, with idyllic lake settings and forest trails. Yet so often...

Westshore dawn panorama, Napier. August 2023 Darkness and light are powerful and pervasive biblical images. They speak to us often of the...

A couple of times in the last week or so I've rescued an earthworm from the church driveway. Yesterday's lucky worm was a big juicy...

Napier Port from Westshore, Chilly August Morning Psalm 138 encourages me with the words; 'Though I walk in the midst of trouble, you...