Dedicated to Zara aged 5 today
Yep, it's a special birthday and I had the privilege of reading the book I've written for 3-6 year olds to Zara's daycare friends right...
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Kinsa Hays
- Nov 11, 2020
- 1 min
Book Launch: Three Little Wax-eyes
Three Little Wax-eyes is dedicated to Zara."My book," she says.
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Kinsa Hays
- Feb 8, 2020
- 4 min
The secretive native bird living on the edge of extinction
The secretive native bird living on the edge of distinction, the bittern or matuku. Can you spot it in the photos?
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Kinsa Hays
- Jan 17, 2020
- 1 min
Launching a book into the world
It's a big deal sending your baby out into the world. It's exciting and scary and expensive. Wiremu WEka Treks the Alps is my third book.
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Kinsa Hays
- Jan 6, 2020
- 1 min
NEW YEAR CONNECTIONS
I've been teaching grandson Alex the art and science of growing flowers and vegetables. He's proud of his first harvest.
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Kinsa Hays
- Dec 31, 2019
- 2 min
Simple delights
My first ‘adventure’ alone with my four-year old grandchild Zara to the local shops where, wincing, I bought an extra-large gift for myself
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Kinsa Hays
- Dec 19, 2019
- 3 min
Footprints
Recently I launched my new children’s book Wiremu Weka Treks the Alps in the Tauranga Art Society rooms. Being an artist as well as a...
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Kinsa Hays
- Aug 18, 2019
- 1 min
No ordinary sculptor: The man who makes wood come to life
This story is from: North & South Magazine – NOTED In a small part of the Bay of Plenty works a man who can make satin and lace from...
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Kinsa Hays
- Aug 18, 2019
- 1 min
My New Home
I’ve moved from a cottage on a farm in Katikati to a brick refurbished 1961-design home in Central Tauranga. Quite a change for someone...
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Kinsa Hays
- Nov 6, 2018
- 1 min
Fonterra failing us and out of step
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com Today in our local Farmers Weekly paper November 5, 2018 the first para says ‘Fonterra achieved a positive...
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Kinsa Hays
- Nov 3, 2018
- 1 min
My environmental poems
Beach Rhythms at Mount Maunganui at 5pm The way ranks of clouds saunter across the sky The way sand ripples reflect dark shadows onto...
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Kinsa Hays
- May 1, 2017
- 2 min
River with a legal voice – the Wanganui/Whanganui River
The Whanganui River is about to become a legal entity in its own right. Te Awa Tupua is an environmental settlement recognising the...
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Kinsa Hays
- Jan 10, 2017
- 2 min
Whale Island in Bay of Plenty
It looked like a humpback whale to both the Maori and Captain James Cook, who charted New Zealand for the first time in the far-back...
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Kinsa Hays
- Dec 12, 2016
- 2 min
A Walk on the Wild Side – sort of
We volunteers met at the kohanga, the hut where the supplies are kept for the pest eradication project for the Aongatete Forest...
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Kinsa Hays
- Dec 11, 2016
- 2 min
Two Good Keen Girls
It was supposed to be a rat-station baiting day in the forest, but a previous check by volunteers found only two rats had been caught!...
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Kinsa Hays
- Oct 12, 2016
- 2 min
Reflections Post – on the elections for local government
Reflections in Lake Brunner, Westland Noel at the Permablitz, Papamoa Rock Gardens Congratulations to all those people who stood up for...
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Kinsa Hays
- Aug 27, 2016
- 3 min
Te Aroha – the mountain of love and a surprise Edwardian town in the Waikato
The old Te Aroha bath house nestled beneath the mountain. Now it’s a museum. Te Aroha snuggles beneath the moutain bearing the same name...
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Kinsa Hays
- Mar 28, 2016
- 2 min
Doing the Duckboard Walk for Whitebait / Inanga
Doing the duckboard walk In the eastern Bay of Plenty a small river runs beside the road towards the estuary, creating a swampy area...
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Kinsa Hays
- Feb 22, 2016
- 3 min
Wilderness as therapy
Have you ever wished to get away from it all, get into nature and escape into solitude? Probably, and I’m there now for two weeks,...
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Kinsa Hays
- Jan 24, 2016
- 3 min
Being an Enviro-warrior – Noel and his e-cycle
The Green Wizard in casual mode The Green Wizard of Tauranga and I were having a cup of coffee when this bright idea came to mind: “What...
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