Siege of Pukekohe East

Heading down from Auckland once again, this time in a shiny new Jeep, I searched for historic places to hit...

The Life of Lawrence’s St Patrick’s Hall

One of the perks of having this blog is that sometimes I get to see places that I’d otherwise have...

So I’d made it to Auckland. Day one had been a write-off, with a cancelled flight and a complete failure...

In my Peninsula adventures, there’s been one place I’ve often passed by but never stopped to investigate. This place is...

Whisked away for a sneaky weekend in Christchurch, I was asked if there was anything I wanted to do between...

Dad and I felt it was high time to take another (literal!) page out of Paul Hayward’s More Intriguing Dunedin...

It was with some alarm that I learned of the pending demolition of the 1893 Methodist church on the corner...

It was time for my usual weekly adventure with Dad, but we were growing sick of the slippery winter mud...

For my final English adventure, I decided to seek out a place I’d seen in many an online clickbait article...

In my previous instalment, I visited Fornham All Saints, and the home church of my 19th-century ancestors George Nunn and...