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An inaugural Retirement Expo held in Cambridge last week is to become an annual fixture after it received high praise from industry representatives. The expo – organised by a familiar face to The News readers…

Champion again Waipā councillor Andrew Brown has taken out the Te Awamutu Golf Club’s intermediate division of the club championship for the fifth time. Brown, who plays off a 10.7 handicap, won it for the…

I have signed up for ChatGPT. According to itself, ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence (AI) program that can generate human-like responses to natural language queries. So I said: please write 500 words on ‘Why the…

Picture a millpond on a summer’s evening. The last of the day’s sunlight angles through the low hanging leaves and sparkles on the water. The light catches a strand of a spider’s web wafting through…

When you turn on the hot tap in the kitchen in our house, you can fill up our common or garden watering can with cold water before it gets hot. That’s just over 5 litres….

One of the more disturbing aspects of natural life, I found as a child, was the fact that having overcome its prey, your average predator would simply begin to eat it. This practice is widespread…

For some time now I’ve had a backup idea, a column-writing safety net of sorts. That is to say with a blank screen in front of me, a rapidly approaching deadline, and no subject on…

It so happened that the family sat down at the dining table for breakfast on Sunday morning. The conversation settled for a while on languages. How they have evolved, where they come from, and how…

No Planet B A very Happy New Year to one and all.  Yes I’m back. It turns out I missed writing my weekly communique more than I thought I would. I won’t assume there will…

I found myself on the receiving end of a bit of a ticking off on Monday. It was Anzac Day. I contacted a colleague from another company on a matter to do with work on…