kimhuntauthor
A South Island Roadie, ARC freebies coming soon and more
Looks like a South Island road-trip is coming up, Yii Haa. So excited to not only visit a very old friend way down yonder, but keen to...
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kimhuntauthor
- Jul 22
- 4 min
Why so long???? Collective grief and Otheringness.
I've never publicly talked about this, but it's significant.
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kimhuntauthor
- Jul 1
- 2 min
Matariki mid-winter blues-blasting projects.
I'm a strange bugger and an impatient sod. For someone who rails at impediments and hold-ups in many areas of my life ...
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kimhuntauthor
- Mar 17
- 1 min
Gouge it with a bent nail across your front fender...
Type it into your diary, scratch it onto the back of your hand, gouge it with a bent nail across your front fender: 'Villainous Newtown'...
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kimhuntauthor
- Jan 23
- 3 min
Hey, kick-start the Writing Year with an Award
Got some rather exciting news to feed into the new writing year. I was named a runner up in the Sisters in Crime US 2023 Pride Award for...
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kimhuntauthor
- Dec 15, 2023
- 4 min
A Bloody Legend...
When I got several messages that Renee had died, I was camped by the ocean. I’d had my phone off for days. It had been a wild old night....
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kimhuntauthor
- Nov 30, 2023
- 4 min
I'll be on the protest line, crutches or no...
Trigger warning: Semi-rant follows. So, funny thing. Not. In the lead-up to the recent election, when the now-in-power righty-tighty...
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kimhuntauthor
- Sep 11, 2023
- 2 min
So, Winter happened … and now it’s Spring.
It rained. And rained. And it kept on raining. And it was bitter cold. Despite this, I finished most of the Capri fit-out and externals;...
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kimhuntauthor
- Apr 20, 2023
- 2 min
Project du jour
So, this old girl needs to go. She's nearly 50 years old and needs a spruce-up top to bottom and inside-out. A mighty big order. This is...
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kimhuntauthor
- Jan 5, 2023
- 3 min
The Double-Banger: Fake Fur and Fairy Lights
The missus has an upcoming exhibition up North and I want to be there to support her, plus a roadie is long overdue. However, my little...
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kimhuntauthor
- Nov 13, 2022
- 1 min
Oh-oh, she planted her snips
The missus came in yesterday looking disturbed. In her hand, one of her prized "lady tools", the Kent and Stowe pruning snips, jaws...
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kimhuntauthor
- Oct 27, 2022
- 5 min
Surprise Topper for the Mini-Truck
On a recent trip, parked up by the sea, I got talking with a friendly fellow who had noticed my camper and pick-up in the past. He was...
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kimhuntauthor
- Sep 19, 2022
- 2 min
Between Deluges
I've never had a proper workshop, a dry organised place to keep tools where there's clean bench-space to work on projects. Having lived...
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kimhuntauthor
- Jun 6, 2022
- 2 min
“You’re not putting anything ruched in my chook-shed”
After putting a cob plaster coating on the lower earthbag walls, I lined the ceiling with the same hessian I’d used in my stealth camper....
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kimhuntauthor
- May 1, 2022
- 2 min
Start the day with Cob
We’re making a few changes around the garden and sheds for my new workshop space and I’m turning an old hut into the new chook house,...
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kimhuntauthor
- Feb 6, 2022
- 2 min
Tweakin' the Lil Monster *
After several trips with the little beast, I figured it could ride better. The inside is cozy and dry and everything works well as a...
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kimhuntauthor
- Jan 23, 2022
- 2 min
Six Little Creatures
We’d just dropped a 17m high holly tree at a friend’s property. The massive trunk split in two when it thumped into the ground and...
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kimhuntauthor
- Dec 12, 2021
- 3 min
A surprising use for pegs. This week in the garden and carport.
"Where's Sticky?" The missus asked. Well, here's Sticky's little niece or distant cousin. Colour does seem to indicate familial...
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kimhuntauthor
- Nov 12, 2021
- 1 min
Classic Car Projects from the Dim, Dark Past.
My god, look at that hair. This is a dusty EK Holden I found in a shed out in western NSW. The engine was seized because someone did an...
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kimhuntauthor
- Oct 10, 2021
- 1 min
The Announcement
Off-grid and off-line, I was on the maiden voyage having towed the stealth camper to a bushland reserve. Parked up with the canine...
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