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I was booked on the TranzAlpine train from Christchurch to Greymouth, but it was cancelled because of flooding. They offered me the next day, but I had booked a hotel for two nights and a tour with Jackie of West Coast Scenic Taste, so I decided to go on the InterCity bus. When I arrived, the Grey River was four metres higher than usual. The current was so fast, the water was brown and there was a lot of wood in it. Jackie texted me that evening: ‘Did you make it to Greymouth

I could hardly call my little book ‘First New Zealand Women’ – and then I woke up at 2am one night with a phrase that singer Dinah Lee...

The song ‘You Can’t Beat Wellington (on a Good Day)’ was released by the Datsun Violets in 1996. Wellingtonians laugh when they hear it...