2007 Mahurangi Regatta
And the gulls circle near where Fairburn walked
Achingly beautiful. Caitlin Smith’s recording is so striking, it is incomprehensible that Where Fairburn Walked  didn’t become a New Zealand standard. Be that as it may, the tribute to poet Rex (A R D) Fairburn was performed brilliantly by the Prohibition Big Band…
The 2007 yearbook: Where the bloody hell
I keep doing this. Bashing out an editorial for a Friends of the Mahurangi publication only to rewrite it, having missed the bleedin’ obvious. My prematurely written editorial had been inspired by last year’s commemoration of the World War Two heroism of Charles Upham...