Greybeard

Postings from here and there

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

The Pragmatic Gardener

Imagine my surprise when I opened my newspaper and saw this!

at 4:55 PM

Niall Shepherd: Dunedin, New Zealand; Fifty something (when I started this blog), with a craving to explore some of the unusual places on the planet beyond the tourist trail. A 'Mission Junkie', I have been lucky enough to have been able to explore the remote corners of the planet during the course of employment. My offices have been located in Moscow, Solomon Islands, Haiti, Timor Leste, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and the Pacific. At home now in NZ After 32 years with NZ Police, a spell with Age Concern Otago, and now a District Support Manager for RNZRSA nurturing the wellbeing of our veteran community, their whanau and dependents.