Anna Chinn's blog

People have been asking how the tree planting went. Last week, I spent five days on a conservation project in Orange, New South Wales. To summarise the experience, I have compiled a tree-planting A to Z.

Introducing the Loaf Game, the new word-game craze.

During a visit to the New South Wales South Coast last weekend, we saw a protected possum up a tree and a dead albatross on the beach.

I lovingly wiped a sheen of dust and some specks of Australian soil off its face. I had found it beneath some dead leaves on the ground beside a car park, near the Canberra Glassworks. It was an orphaned CD, and on it was written "Shadow, Road Trip Mix".

If you go into the woods today, you're sure of a big surprise. But not as big a surprise as if you had gone into the woods, in particular the bush at Whare Flat, on the recent night of the winter solstice.

So, I have been tapped to become the first (not merely token) woman blogger for the new odt.co.nz.