tristan riley

Big news in Bainham – Lorna Langford has retired from the Bainham store, after 50 years. The store will carry on, a trip down memory lane, on the corner between paddock and massive macrocarpa. Trout wriggle in the Aorere, it rains a lot. I remember trips to the Quartz Ranges as a kid, wild turkeys [...]

From the end of the Spit, land flattens. Gannets squawk and wheel on the low islets further out, awash on king tides, swept by storms. The lighthouse flashes as the sun sinks in the west. I stretch my arms wide, this low sand bank is the very end of land, the last point of a [...]