12 May 2010 - Anton at Tikorangi - he shares an interest in Amy Maud Bock.

11 May 2010 – Ronan and Sandra at Tikorangi.

4 May 2010 – Viktoria with the Cows at Inglewood.

30 04 2010 – The Tractor Dismantlers Yard in Stratford – I bought 2 large tyres for the farm tractor. I have spent many hours in farm sheds amongst farm equipment. This yard felt like a tribute to Don Driver.

24 04 10 Ian Wickham using the MaxiForst wood splitter. I came across this wood splitter and was totally delighted to find that it was made locally in New Plymouth and patented by Ian Wickham from Inglewood in the 1980’s.

23 04 10 Felipe at Tikorangi

15 April 2010 Allen during his visit, Tikorangi

28 October 1983 I visited and photographed Ross Michie house and work – he was well known for his extraordinary Concrete embellishment of his house in Kaitaia – I re visited the house on 31 03 2010 – it has changed a lot but the essence that Ross created still exists. The Tino Rangatiratangi flag is flying.

03 04 2010 A complete Dinner set of 8 - Temuka ware at Haruru Falls

31 03 10 Hair Salon Shop window Kaitaia

31 03 10 Bookshop Kaitaia

31 03 10 signage for the Kaitaia Peoples Centre.

Kaikohe 02 04 10.

Pahia 28 03 10

Whangarei 27 03 10.

Marsden point 27 03 10

Having come from the 70’s generation of the protest movement and 'Think Big' in Taranaki and with the recent protest at Waihopai I have started a new Project with a working title –
“Search & Surveillance”. Here are some of the images above.

30th March 2010 – at Te Waimate Mission Station House, Northland – these portraits of the Bedggoods and the Kings are signed by Alfred Bock – Amy Maud Bock’s father. It felt like serendipity to find these Bock images – the Kings are one of the first five missionary settler couples to come to NZ in 1814.

29 March 2010 – 2 signs at Rewi’s village Kerikeri.

29 March 2010 – at the Kerikeri Opportunity shop - the sign reads –‘Our prices are Firm – the Management is not emotionally equipped to haggle’.

24 03 2010. - Nadine at Tikorangi.

March 2010 – Friends of the Duxfeilds contacted me to reprint work from 1983. Here are 2 images from the series. The garden and roadside sculptures were made by Eunice Duxfield. Both the Duxfield seniors have since died and the sculptures dismantled. The sculptures were on the State Highway to Ohura.

20th March 2010. Ngawhakaheke Wetere (Aunty Tuti) with Matarena Rau-Kupa (Aunty Marj) at the celebration of Matarena’s 97th birthday and Hinehuia’s birthday, at Onearo, North Taranaki.

4 March 2010 – at the first run weaner sale and last years sale also in March.

19^th March – The 10 opossums I recently caught under my avocado trees at Tikorangi. I have to believe that if everybody took responsibilty and caught the opossums that live in their area, then we could easily minimalise the national opossum problem and the threat they pose to our native flora and fauna.

19^th March – Tikorangi. The old Tikorangi Dairy Factory manager’s house was moved to a new location down the road. When I first moved to Tikorangi – George and Mavis lived in this house. Mavis was a keen knitter.

This is a copy of an old map of the Pekapeka Block - Waitara and Te Kohia.

17th March 2010 – 12.50 pm – at Owae Marae, Waitara. The signing of an agreement to the Terms of Negotiations for a Treaty of Waitangi settlement with Te Atiawa took place.

17th March 2010 – Pukeariki Landing during the opening of the exhibtion “War”. Whilst John Key was inside making his speeches these young people were outside seemingly dispossessed.

17th March 2010 – Prime Minister John Key at the opening of the exhibition at Pukeariki, New Plymouth – “WAR” - Te Ahi Ka Roa, Te Ahi Katoro - Taranaki War 1860–2010. Our Legacy — Our Challenge.

17th March 2010 – 7.29 am - First light on Waitara Town the morning of the 150^th anniversary of war erupting in Taranaki. War raged across Taranaki for 21 years, and its legacy lives on today. The first shots were fired at Te Kohia Pa near Waitara, 17 March 1860. Te Kohia is in the far central background of this image. It was the events at Waitara that the following saying was coined and remains with Taranaki whanui today - " Ko Waitara, Ko Waitara, Ko te ra tenei I mate ai te whenua, I mate ai te Tangata - Waitara, Waitara, the day, the land and the people were destroyed".

15^th March 2010 – Emillien, with Dudley – a stray cat at Inglewood.

12^th March 2010 – WOMAD, New Plymouth. On Friday evening during the opening performances it rained briefly and then the light provided a rainbow to start WOMAD 2010.

4th March 2010 – The Percy Thompson Gallery in Stratford invited Tertius to display his work at the exhibtion 'Dramatic Art'. This was Shakespearean themed with Elizabethan Costumes and Opera on show. These are Tertius’ 10 drawings on rice paper that were shown on the gallery wall. Also here are two of the 4 drawings that were not shown publically due to the visual content being deemed as unsuitable for younger viewers. The nakedness of Phebe was not considered to be similarly inappropriate. The drawings as a complete set of 14 were very beautiful and reflected a vital element of Shakespeare.

13^th February 2010- Inglewood – “Twisty Face’s” calf # 33 calf died suddenly – it was ‘Black Leg’ – a virus in the soil that is fatal to cattle.

11^th February 2010- Tikorangi - I re-built and upgraded my kitchen in the old factory manager’s office area.

9^th January 2010 – at Parihaka Peace Festival – each night this neon display shone above the camp site – it tells of the story of the village dog peeing on the British cannon wick aimed at the village, causing the cannon to misfire and saving the people of Parihaka in 1881.

9^th January 2010 – at Parihaka Peace Festival – Saturday night performer’s area next to the main stage.

8^th January 2010 – at Parihaka Peace Festival. Belle Bailey and Marama Sionetama - Kai Karanga with Ans Westra.

13th December 2009 – and 30th March 2010. In December last year I found a mummified rat in one of my storage areas. When I visited Pompallier House in Russell, 30th March I found this mummified rat in their collection of treasures too.

7^th December - 2009 – Ina and her daughter Dell, at Tuti’s Christmas party, Waitara. I work with Ina and Dell as part of the local CORSO collective.

19th June 2009 - a car burning on the roadside at Tikorangi.

1 December – Here are the other Full-Time Waitara Te Reo students and tutor at our last class for 2009. Rawiri, Taihuri - tutor, Rata, Mawhaturea, and Jo. This course was with WITT – Te Kura Matatini o Taranaki. I passed Wetereo 1.

24 November 09 – Recently the mornings at Inglewood have been misty until 10 am. The vegetation on sides of the road has glowed with the dew.

21 November 09 – Dawn at the Taranaki Green Dollars 20th year celebration. Also known as LETS it is a local trade and exchange system. I was part of the original group that established the Taranaki network.
The celebrations cake.

21 November 09 Arthur, Imile and Dean at Tikorangi.

16 November 09 – for sometime I have been watching 2 birds at the back of the Inglewood farm. They are Pied Stilts – Poaka. Himantopus Leucocephalus.

18 October and 8 November 09. Folk seem to still adopt the name Egmont locally – the name given to Mount Taranaki by Captain Cook in the 1770’s. Here are 2 recent images. The car number plate is 18 October in New Plymouth and I found the bottle with an Egmont label on, under the barberry hedge at Inglewood on 8 November.

8 November-09 – With this big digger I spent the weekend taking out the barberry hedge line ready to put new boundary fences up at Inglewood.

8 November 09 at 7.47 pm. A still image downloaded from the Taranaki vista web site – a beautiful Taranaki dusk.

7 November 09 at 6.08am. A still image downloaded from the Taranaki vista web site – a beautiful Taranaki dawn.

3 November 09. I took 12 opossums to sell for the fur at the Inglewood opossum factory. Here is the days collection on the factory floor. The light in the factory is an airy blue colour.

1 November 09 Cath and her father at Bell Block.

30 October 09 Chevette has established her first garden. She gave me this very beautiful bok choy. It tasted really good.

20 October 09 in Waitara outside the Chemist is this fire hydrant with this very nice fern growing in the glassed box.

2nd October 09 This sign is an industrial area of New Plymouth where I go to a building supply store. I am yet to sample the pancake seconds.

27 September 09 Here is Cath posing with the Te Kuiti shearer.

23rd September 09 Cath invited me out to dinner – above the fireplace at the restaurant is a cattle skull – and it reminded me of Georgia O'Keeffe.