Twenty Tiny Elephants: Sharks, Dolphins and Lizards
You learn pretty early on in life that not only are we all not created…
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A Death in the Family
A death, any death, disturbs the family flow, the dynamic, the daily pattern. Whether it…
Nick Scott reviews: Elizabeth : a Portrait in Parts
On the 6th February 2022 Queen Elizabeth II became the first English monarch to have…
The Gardener: remembering my Mother
She parks on the road in front of the dense, high, dark green hedge that…
Nick Scott Writer and Reviewer: a Q & A
Nick Scott a writer from Tauranga completes ARTbop’s Q&A:- Nick Scott having tea with ARTbop…
An artist’s gotta eat: Red Cabbage and Chocolate Cake
It must be lockdown. I must confess. No, not to having twenty thousand double length…
The Being of Light: light, dark and shade
It’s such a cliché: the fingers of early morning light. Little shafts of light moving…
Temple’s Job: Chapter Eleven
“The Lake Poets”…..? “Lake Coleridge” blurted out Joe, trying to appear intelligent. “No” said Ian…
The Sunday Series: Te Wiki o te Reo Maori 2020
“Ngā mihi nui ki a koutou katoa. Greetings to you all. Te Wiki o te…
The Sunday Series: 2Pac
“Tupac Amaru Shakur born Lesane Parish Crooks, June 16, 1971 – September 13, 1996), better known…