A few years ago I had an email from a reader (and my apologies that it’s taken this long to respond to it!):

I ride my bike every day in my rounds as a support worker visiting people’s homes …

There’s been an interesting flurry of discussions in the past few days, following the news that Regulation Minister David Seymour sought advice on the possibility of removing mandatory cycling helmet requirements. The upshot (for now at least) is that …

Today is of course Anzac Day, when we come together to honour those who have sadly died in various battles around the world. Closer to home, tragically we have also lost a few people cycling this year including two in …

Meg Christie is an active transport health promoter for Canterbury’s community public health service. Her job is about finding ways to make it easier for people to walk and cycle places. This involves influencing public policy (for example, by making …

Did you know that this week is NZ Mental Health Awareness Week? The aim is to raise awareness and understanding of something that affects a lot of NZers either permanently or (more often) temporarily when life throws something at …

It says something about the crazy busy week I’ve just had that even managing to do a regular Flashback Friday on time (let alone any other blogpost) escaped me. So as I finally get some R&R time on the weekend, …

Mental health seems to be getting a bigger airing these days, with more and more people realising that we don’t all have good days (or weeks, or months…) and sometimes we need to talk to someone about that or find …

Nearly seven years on from this Mar 2015 post, and a new job later, but the crazy-busy-ness in my life is still there – and I have been feeling a bit sniffly again this week (not Covid fortunately…). That’s …

And so, here we are again… a few Covid cases locally and we have another full-on lockdown to contend with, and all that goes with that. At time of publishing, we don’t know yet whether Christchurch might get an early …

The month of March is already a few days in but, now that we’re about to move back down to COVID Level 1, there’s a lot more certainty about what is coming up this month (don’t jinx it……