A very, very funny article from this week's Aucklander magazine. Have a read.

Rounding off July: I find myself intrigued by three hunks of wood bolted together and left at the side of the eastbound track at Avondale T...

I've just loaded the St Ninian's of Avondale booklet onto Scribd.

Part of my Sunday walking jaunts last weekend, involved looking for a couple of control boxes along Great North and Karangahape Roads. So, ...

Something I'm very pleased to have been involved with is the  Avondale-Waterview Historical Society's "tapes to disc" pro...

Latest issue of Backroads is up, from the Backroads blog .

Click to enlarge in Photobucket. Cat B has kindly shared this photo of a class at Napier Street School, Freemans Bay, from 1928. If anyon...

Since the last day of racing (for at least a while, hopefully) at Avondale, I've been gathering together a bit of a snippets list of ite...

Jayne, from Our Great Southern Land blog, sent three photos to me out of the blue, and gave kind permission for them to be republished he...

Back when I did the "community illustrated" post on Titirangi's library pavers,  Cat B wrote in the comments: "There ...

I've just found that IPENZ have included my Wairaka's Waters work on their list of engineering heritage publications . Well, that...

There's a bit of a mystery about these loos -- who designed them? They are too elegant not to have been specially designed by somebody ...

This one is new this year, by S McCarthy. To be found just down from the Hutchinson/Margan/Rankin Ave intersection. The art features potter...