I’ve been looking for a house to buy in Dunedin for a year and a-half and, boy, have I seen some s...holes in that time, writes Lisa Scott.
I never thought I’d say this but I highly recommend an intense, passionate, totally over-the-top holiday from reality in the form of a mad love affair.
When I wake up in the morning, the first thing I see when I open my eyes is Mopanui.
Was today the day we got the country back on track? Let me know. I want to remember what I was doing when it happened.
Lisa Scott gets some training in before tackling a Great Walk.
Family is a weave of people who know you.
In 2015, at the age of 109 and at the time Scotland’s oldest woman, Jesse Gallan credited her advanced age to porridge and avoidance of men.
"I’m just reaching out, as a concerned friend," she said.
Gardening is a brutal contact sport. The garden doesn’t want to be tamed, writes Lisa Scott.
I had some fun playing with ChatGPT the other day, asking it who I was. The results are best summed up as kind of true, in an alternate universe, writes Lisa Scott.
When it comes to eulogies, there's room for a balance between blowing smoke up your cadaver and free-range honesty, writes Lisa Scott.
They say travelling together is the best test of any relationship, but I don’t see why there needs to be a test. A relationship is a pass/fail situation, surely, writes Lisa Scott.
Food could not be more expensive right now.
My New Year’s resolution was to go vegetarian.
Well done, you’ve made it to the end of a frankly awful year.
Sometimes, if people won’t make a path for you, you have to bash one for yourself, writes Lisa Scott.
"Property investor" sounds great, doesn’t it? Better than "reluctant landlord", which is the truth of the matter, writes Lisa Scott.
Why are Wanaka people (the ones who live there all the time and own a house) miserable as sin? Lisa Scott wonders.
I’m getting used to the morning commute, but I will say the old bed-to-dining-table-in-Uggs route did have a certain ease and simplicity, writes Lisa Scott.