5 November 2020

Return to Paradise

›
To read the whole book online, click here , then SIGN UP (it's free!), LOG IN and BORROW   I was lucky because my first job in th...
4 November 2020

The power of words, imagination and Charles Dickens

›
    "You cannot pretend to read a good book. Your eyes give you away. So will your breathing. A person entranced by...
22 October 2020

Pidgin English Kuk Buk

›
 
12 October 2020

A tour of Panguna in 2018

›
 
11 October 2020

Bougainville Copper AGM 2019

›
  In April 2019, Bougainville Copper travelled to Arawa, Panguna and Buka to interview landowners, ex-Bougainville Coppe...
8 October 2020

"Your post goes against our Community Standards"

›
  "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen ..." Actually, it was a bright cool morning i...
7 October 2020

A million different journeys

›
There are no contributions from ex-Bougainville expats coming in, so here's a bit of a filler about Papua New Guinea generally: ...
15 September 2020

16 September - PNG's Independence Day

›
  It was in the dying days of 1974 when I received an urgent telegram from TOTAL - Compagnie Française des Pétroles to fly to what w...
11 September 2020

And so say all of us!

›
Here's a slightly abridged email from an ex-Bougainville engineer:   "Until old age caught up with me very suddenly...
6 September 2020

The story of Red Dog

›
  This is not strictly Bougainville but it's about mining in a remote part of the world, and since so many of you before ...