The South Head Vagabond

Writing by Rob Harley

Rob Harley, sitting on his blue Harley Davidson motorbike

Kia ora Tatou and Happy New Year

Out here at South Head we’re enjoying the glories of summer! The vege patch has gone crazy – red onions the size of small soccer balls and out-of-control courgettes turning into marrows before you can collect them!

I’m excited about 2025 and some ideas that will come to fruition to bring you a ton of inspiration on this site.

Once I’ve finished the podcast series “Tales from the Hospital Corridors” in a few weeks, the podcast focus will shift to some one-on-one interviews I will be conducting with some of the most fascinating people I am meeting these days.

This week’s video archive offering is a beauty – although it’s very challenging. It’s a documentary my team and I made some years ago about the strenuous efforts being made by an Asian women’s refuge service to take care of battered and homeless women.

‘Broken Promises, Broken Brides’ has also been turned into a compelling chapter in my new book The Courage of Women, which has nearly sold out of its print run, but you can still buy a copy from the book section on this site.

I will be dropping a few hints in this edition about a brand new opportunity I hope to start offering in a few months – it’s a series of webinars I plan to run to teach the art of written, spoken and visual communication. If you are sitting on a great idea for a book and some other communications gem, I want to help you get there.

So, watch this space!

Arohanui.

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