John (Jack) and his sister Kate

Straight off the Tussock Chapter 2

HARD LESSONS The Okuku Range is a cluster of hills 900m-1100m high, rising from the northern limit of  the Canterbury Plains and treading north-westwards to meet the foothills of the Puketekari Range. Jack grew up in the Okuku Pass which runs between it.    I used to walk down to the White Rock limeworks to talk to the people over there or the men on the station, but I suppose

Straight off the Tussock Chapter 1

  STRAIGHT OFF THE TUSSOCK A FAMILY MEMOIR WITH J.A.G (JACK) FULTON BY TIM FULTON Chapter 1  Broomfield in North Canterbury was a quiet pond, but Jack was the stone that skipped across it.    I was constantly in trouble. My father Gordon was away most of the time, always busy, so I rarely saw him. And my mother Winifred, well, she was 45 when I was born and totally

The Day the World Changed

An honest and heartfelt read from the Christchurch earthquake An account of the February 22, 2011 Christchurch earthquake by Ian Lowe BEING IN THE middle of the Christchurch earthquake was the most frightening experience of my life. It was a category 6.3 on the Richter scale. So I could hardly believe the intensity of the Japanese earthquake that triggered the catastrophic tsunami. It was a category 9. Since the scale

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