Kaitlyn

“I’ve been doing compost workshops for the community for four years. But I guess composting for like the past eight years. It originally started because we moved and our house came with the compost bin. I was curious to know what it was, so we started composting, but like, just chucking stuff and not really […]

Kate

“I was in Cambodia for work. It was a very hot night, and I literally swept my hand down my body and said out loud, ‘Oh, it’s so hot!’ And I felt this lump, It felt like half the size of a golf ball. I thought, I’m not going to be too worried about it, […]

Shamla

“I am a reader. I didn’t grow up with siblings, I had a lot of free time. From my childhood, I read lots of books. One of my favourite authors, she’s Enid Blyton. I grew up reading Famous Five, Secret Seven, Malory Towers – they constituted a big part of my world. The first thing […]

Sawdust – Part 2

“I’ve been travelling since I was 21. “It all started one night I went to post a letter at the post office. I got talking to a guy, and I said, ‘what do you do?’ He said ‘I’m the Commander of the Navy, down in Antarctica and the top of Alaska.’ He said he didn’t […]

Sawdust – Part 1

“I’m known all over New Zealand as Sawdust.” “When we left the mill we were all covered in sawdust. We used to go to the pub – four guys and me, had our little corner. By the time we left there was about half a metre of sawdust on the floor. I was called Chuck […]

Crocky

“My name’s Crocky… the nickname I’ve had my whole life. When I was six I had a possum skin hat like the American folklore hero Davy Crockett. I never wanted to take off the hat. Where I feel most at home is the Southern Lakes where I was born, but I had my school years […]