High Heels and Gumboots: Romeo and Juliet
The course of true love never did run smooth, even in the chookhouse. A marine biologist once told me I had committed the gentle sin of...
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Rebecca Hayter
Apr 10, 20223 min read
The doggedness of ducks
About a year after coming to Oceanspirit, I finally got my ducks in a row: Donald, Dorothy and Delia Duck. Muscovy ducks, they were...
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Rebecca Hayter
Apr 6, 20223 min read
The Big Storm
I still call it the Big Storm. It threw deck chairs into the tussock as I pulled on my jacket and ran to feed the chooks. As I passed the...
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Rebecca Hayter
Apr 4, 20222 min read
Bagging up nicely
In my career as a yachting journalist, I’ve routinely used terms such as ‘tacking for the lay’, ‘bear-away set’ and ‘finite element...
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Rebecca Hayter
Apr 3, 20222 min read
Heading Home
“The South Island is calling me back.” I’d been saying it for 15 years. Late at night in my Auckland apartment, I’d go online and Google:...
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Rebecca Hayter
Mar 18, 20223 min read
The art of tractor maintenance
If only the best moments of my life took as long as those agonising seconds to roll into the ditch. I had plenty of time to put my foot...
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Rebecca Hayter
Aug 27, 20213 min read
High Heels and Gumboots
Call the midwife The ewe had been walking around for three hours with the nose, eyes and sometimes the tongue of a lamb poking out her...
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Rebecca Hayter
Jul 16, 20213 min read
High Heels and Gumboots
I love it when you torque dirty There’s a quaint notion that people leave the city in search of a quiet lifestyle block in the country. A...
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Rebecca Hayter
Mar 6, 20173 min read
High Heels and Gumboots: The Art of Mowing
The Massey Ferguson 135 which stars in this story is now for sale, looking for new meadows to mow. She's a beauty! We pulled the...
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