Kate's Blog

The World Cup has kicked off and there is plenty to think about. I will not venture into the tactics of teams or specific match reports in t...

Vintage Murder  by Ngaio Marsh Fontana Pp.223 Inspector Roderick Alleyn is on holiday in New Zealand when he gets caught up with a theatre g...

Mustn't Grumble  by Joe Bennett (Simon & Schuster), Pp. 280 Joe Bennett lives in Christchurch, New Zealand where he write...

On Their Own: Britain's Child Migrants National Archives of Australia December 2012 - March 2013 From the 1860s more than 100,000 Br...

Recently the New Zealand media has been awash with hysteria over The Hobbit . Because some actors who were part of the union dared to ask f...

So the World Cup is over for another year. I will miss it. I won’t miss the vuvuzelas, but I will miss the World Cup. Football begins again...

Well, the first round of group games is over and we’re into round two. England play Algeria tomorrow morning (NZ time), so I thought I bette...

Until last week, I didn’t know the name of that extremely annoying horn. You know the one at this year’s World Cup. People blast its monoton...

Well, the World Cup kicks off tomorrow and I am so excited! I'm not usually the gambling type but I got my friend, Heart of the District...

Last week I went to a One Day International cricket match between Australia and New Zealand. It was free to attend so I went along and sat i...

Tonight England play the Ukraine and New Zealand play Bahrain. Both games are televised live on SKY in the middle of the night, our time (un...