Jean Farmer took the call, and regretted instantly that she’d been the one to pick up the phone.
The three boys bounded through the grass towards the forest, a spray of panicky hoppers glimmering around them, while John Henry recited the passage from Scouting for Boys that approved the adventure.
“You have four kinds of sparkling water,” Mia reports from the depths of our refrigerator.
As an island nation, Aotearoa New Zealand has borders which are both clearly defined and highly permeable.
To get to the tiny village of Kittredge, Colorado, which for five days in 1987 became the unlikely center of the political solar system, you have to take the interstate about ten miles west of Denver
Even the most perfect life can shatter in seconds, and Brook Connor’s nightmare began approximately two minutes after she walked through her front door.
Twenty-one minutes before the ambush, Harrison Tucker is lying on his stomach on a king-size bed in an Atlanta hotel room
There was once an inn that sat peacefully on the bank of the Thames at Radcot, a long day’s walk from the source.
So, you’ve finished reading Up the Duff: The Real Guide to Pregnancy, and now you’ve thrown it at the wall and you’re shouting ‘Yes, but what do I do now the bloody baby has arrived, you dreadful slattern?!’
From Tatapouri, we made our way into Gisborne and slowly adapted to things like traffic lights and – well – traffic!
At the time of the discovery of the astonishingly ancient Learned Man, some decades back, my friend Peter Jorgensen, a scientist from Melbourne, was testing dried lake basins and their sediments for records of ancient rainfall oscillations.
Temperatures that late January morning plunged to four degrees above zero, and still people came by the hundreds of thousands, packing both sides of the procession route from Capitol Hill to the White House.
It’s a wonder everyone who uses public transport in winter doesn’t keel over and die of germ overload.
