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A visit to Orokonui Sanctuary | Stepping out
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Outdoor adventure pursuits, risk and writing. Books I’ve read. A visit to Orokonui Sanctuary. July 13, 2015. After a long break from blogging, and pressure from my 8-year-old son, who has his own blog, I am finally posting again! In Dunedin this week, down from New Plymouth, for the school holidays and just had a lovely walk at Orokonui Sanctuary. The highlight was seeing two Takahe foraging around in the undergrowth, totally unconcerned by the bright pufferjacket-wearing humans gawking at them. This wor...
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Books I’ve read | Stepping out
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Outdoor adventure pursuits, risk and writing. Books I’ve read. Books I’ve read. Not that I’ve got much time for reading inbetween study and kids – but here’s a few of my favourite non-fiction reads in the last six months. Have just finished reading, Sex: The curious coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach. A most hilarious book about the history and development of sex research and science. Not often I have read a laugh-out-loud book that also explains really well weird and wonderful things about sex.
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Gathering time of year -blackberries, rosehips, apples | Stepping out
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Outdoor adventure pursuits, risk and writing. Books I’ve read. Gathering time of year -blackberries, rosehips, apples. March 26, 2012. Blackberries, found in abundance around Invercargill. My blackberry and apple pie. On a recent trip to Queenstown I stocked up on rosehips, which I’ve made rosehip syrup with, though you’ve got to be careful picking them. I was still picking out prickles from my fingers days later. From → gathering. Larr; Doing the Dusky Track. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. How much outdoor...
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Making the most of a cold dreary Invercargill day | Stepping out
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Outdoor adventure pursuits, risk and writing. Books I’ve read. Making the most of a cold dreary Invercargill day. April 29, 2012. It seems there are not a lot of options of things to do on a grey drizzly day in Invercargill. Or maybe it’s just that it’s hard to get motivated to do stuff outside. I would be quite happy to sit inside and read my book, while the children make huts or play with lego. From → Uncategorized. Larr; I am gatherer – hear me roar! A visit to Orokonui Sanctuary →. Leave one →. Subsc...
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How much outdoor activity with children is too much? | Stepping out
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Outdoor adventure pursuits, risk and writing. Books I’ve read. How much outdoor activity with children is too much? April 2, 2012. I quite like this blog post I read today about “slow parenting”. While raising active kids. Some good advice to heed, you don’t always have to be planning big outdoor trips to do with kids, although it is nice to do one every now and then. On the other hand, I saw this the other day and was in awe of what this mother, Trish Ellis Herr and her two children have achieved. You a...
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The pleasures of gardening | Stepping out
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Outdoor adventure pursuits, risk and writing. Books I’ve read. The pleasures of gardening. February 21, 2012. Enough of the courgettes. I’ve been loving my vegie garden this summer. It’s been a great growing season here with lots of dry warm weather but also bouts of rain. I never thought I’d ever be a committed gardener but it is an intensely pleasurable activity to see plants you’ve planted grow and then that smug satisfaction you get later when you can cook and eat them. From → Uncategorized. Creative...
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Presentations | Stepping out
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Outdoor adventure pursuits, risk and writing. Books I’ve read. This is an online version of a presentation I did for my digital design class on May 3, 2010. It is about my initial research topic – where my water comes from and where it goes to – and how this relates to my blog, which is concerned with water issues in New Zealand. I’ve now changed my research topic to looking at the changing nature of outdoor adventure pursuits and risk. The audio recorded from my talk is here. Leave a Reply Cancel reply.
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Podcasts | Stepping out
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Outdoor adventure pursuits, risk and writing. Books I’ve read. Below are the links to my posts containing podcasts done during August and September 2010 as part of my master’s research into the changing nature of outdoor adventure pursuits and ideas on risk. Early experiences in the outdoors, the importance of teamwork and kayaking with those you know and trust, close calls. Aspo and surfing and climbing. Dad’s climbing story:. And here is a post. About my thoughts on the audio interviewing process, from...
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I am gatherer – hear me roar! | Stepping out
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Outdoor adventure pursuits, risk and writing. Books I’ve read. I am gatherer – hear me roar! April 5, 2012. Sorry to go on about blackberry picking, but I’m obviously addicted to it. I came across the best blackberry patch ever yesterday. It was so exciting – only for the blackberry picking connosieur I guess. I got 1.5kg of the finest looking and tasting blackberries, plus added a few apples and made blackberry jelly. You have to strain the berries through a cloth, which turned a very satisfying...You a...
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