I think they sold it to the New World supermarket next door, but before that my grandparents lived in a 1960s brick house on Bellevue Road in Ōtūmoetai. My granddad built roads all across the Bay of Plenty. He’d point them out to us on long drives. He said he slept in ‘ponga whares’ in […]
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How to run up hills
I have a loop that I run twice a week, and it starts with a hill. Every time it’s hard. Every time it’s steep. And about halfway up everything is sore and heavy and I just despair that it never gets any bloody easier — but I can’t stop running. And then I’m on the […]