Tulagi Memories
I spent my first year in Honiara, my second in New Zealand, and my third on a random island called Tulagi where Dad had gotten a job at some…
I spent my first year in Honiara, my second in New Zealand, and my third on a random island called Tulagi where Dad had gotten a job at some…
The problem with street signs in the Solomon Islands is that there aren’t any.
Ok, that may be exaggerating – there are at least two.
My address in New…
We’ve moved house and we love it.
Our house is purple. PURPLE! We’re closer to town, our work commute is only ten minutes not thirty, and there is a small…
If anyone visited Solomon Islands in 2017 they would have heard Jaro Local’s Dakini Tangarareh blaring back to back from every shop in town. Lately in New Zealand, it…
We’re back! And what better way to start off the year than with some New Years resolutions. Yeah, we know it’s the end of January but hey, we run…
In preparation for our five-week reintegration into New Zealand society, we thought we’d better send out a warning and pre-apology for the misunderstandings, questionable behaviour, and social faux-pas we’ll…
For the past few weeks I have been helping to fundraise for the building of a block of classrooms for Mercy School in Burns Creek.
This has been a learning…
Apostolic Jerusalem Anointing Oil: The oil you can buy in Honiara that heals everything.
An upturned rubbish bin with a poster plastered across it announces, “Are you tired of that…
We came home tonight and spotted a new hole in our fence. That makes a total of five holes that you can see lined up next to each other: four…
The Solomon Islands is currently under a biosecurity threat from the Coconut Rhinoceros Beetle. As the name suggests, they are beetles with a horn with a taste for coconut trees….
