We Kiwis don't like to toot our own horns much but I wanted to keep this for future memories. For years I worked on behalf of the local community and wrote a monthly newsletter. I stopped doing all that recently. Then Tim emailed:

Email says: Thank you for all you have done for Waikawa. especially for your dedicated commitment publishing Waikawa News over many years. Your regular newsletter was first and foremost a community asset, professionally presented, informative. encouraging, binding. A brilliant and impressive contribution.

It is a precious email, a taonga to me. (A treasure)