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Julie Cotton
Country Living – Looking back, looking forward
Today my mood is cloudy with a chance of heavy rain. This is worryful to me, as I fear it may impede on the imaginary...
Country Living – Possum hunt
I have found myself with a new level of loathing for possums. Prior to this and like most of us, I was only blindly aware...
Country Living – Munching popcorn while road promises snap and crackle
In my early 20s, my husband and I were working in Ghana, West Africa. It was a wild and crazy place back then, not really...
Country Living – Finding my whenua – Part 2
Following on from my previous column “falling in love with my whenua”, I invite you one more time into my never-ending story, my imaginary world...
Country Living – Falling in love with my whenua
While the world has been spinning around me for the last three winters, I have been busy. Around 70km per week busy. Walking and jogging...
Country Living – Vital cogs in a mechanised world
You can be a brain surgeon or a billionaire, but when you break down on the side of the road in the pouring rain, the...
Country Living – Digging deep into oyster mythology
OystersHe ordered oysters and she champagneCrisp white tablecloths and lust they shall refrainPlump and glistening against the silverwareRomantic anticipation filled the air.Julie Cotton Below the...
Country Living – The trailer debate
When my children were much younger, and I had them all at home, we were given the most unfortunate and embarrassing moniker, the “trailer family”....
Country Living – Getting in a pickle
I’m on the jam. Not quite the “fam-bam-jam-ba-lam”, but more the plum and chili jam, along with other preserves, chutneys and pickles. I had a...
Country Living – Ponsonby pooches get a taste of country life
I had the joyful pleasure of babysitting my grand doggies over summer, a staycation for them on Ninny and Poppy’s farm. Mr Banks, the French...