Chickens. It was the chickens that told me I’d got this one wrong. When Dan the editor let me know that my next assignment would be an interview with Melissa Clark-Reynolds, […]
Graeme lives on the Kapiti Coast. He fits bouts of writing, broadcasting and business ownership between his many and varied leisure activities.
By Graeme Tuckett on Comments Off on The Interview: Russ Kalivati
They say you could build a battleship in Petone, and I reckon that’s probably right. Photographer Anna and I are taking a drive in Senior Constable Rasau (Russ) Kalivati’s patrol car. […]
Graeme lives on the Kapiti Coast. He fits bouts of writing, broadcasting and business ownership between his many and varied leisure activities.
By Graeme Tuckett on Comments Off on The Interview: Nicola Gaston
This article started with a Facebook post. A few months ago, a photo turned up on a friend’s page. It showed a group of Indian women in saris, apparently whooping […]
Graeme lives on the Kapiti Coast. He fits bouts of writing, broadcasting and business ownership between his many and varied leisure activities.
By Graeme Tuckett on Comments Off on The Interview: Rodger Fox
Professional musicians are made of different stuff from the rest of us. Everybody knows this. A musician is endlessly youthful, their joy in life will remain unfaded, and they will march […]
Graeme lives on the Kapiti Coast. He fits bouts of writing, broadcasting and business ownership between his many and varied leisure activities.
By Graeme Tuckett on Comments Off on 4‑wheeled aphrodisiac
According to the TV commercial, this Mercedes C‑Class is the car that “changes everything”, presumably at around the same time as it’s having whoever is sitting in the passenger seat […]
Graeme lives on the Kapiti Coast. He fits bouts of writing, broadcasting and business ownership between his many and varied leisure activities.
Teeth. If you had asked me yesterday, before I sat down to talk for an hour with Annette King, just what we would spend half our time discussing, then I […]
Graeme lives on the Kapiti Coast. He fits bouts of writing, broadcasting and business ownership between his many and varied leisure activities.
The story, I think, goes something like this. When we talk about ‘the coolest little capital’, or all that ‘Cuba Quarter’ blather, what we are acknowledging is the work of a […]
Graeme lives on the Kapiti Coast. He fits bouts of writing, broadcasting and business ownership between his many and varied leisure activities.
If you have grown up, or just got older, in New Zealand anytime in the last four decades, then you have probably been influenced in some way by Joy Cowley. […]
Graeme lives on the Kapiti Coast. He fits bouts of writing, broadcasting and business ownership between his many and varied leisure activities.
Lambton Quay and Featherston Street are a study in contrasts. There’s some wonderfully well turned out people down this end of town, quite happily clad in four-figure suits and the […]
Graeme lives on the Kapiti Coast. He fits bouts of writing, broadcasting and business ownership between his many and varied leisure activities.
Sima Urale is a filmmaker, a writer and an actor. Born in Samoa, and initially raised in the villages of Fagamalo and Matavai, she migrated with her family to New […]
Graeme lives on the Kapiti Coast. He fits bouts of writing, broadcasting and business ownership between his many and varied leisure activities.