Mark Bryan – The Veterinarian Magazine

Kiwi Post: the face of loss

On May 12, 2019June 3, 2019 By admin

On March 12 one of our best friends died, after a good, long life, aged 80. John was a local sheep farmer, and one of the first people we met when we moved to Southland and into his farm cottage over 20 years ago. We arrived in Winton for a […]

Kiwi Post: The Art of Finding Disease

On May 3, 2017May 24, 2017 By admin

The International Conference on Animal Health Surveillance (ICAHS) comes to New Zealand in early May this year. This is a triennial event, and this is the third such event, so well done to everyone involved in getting us to host it. Not the least of the roadblocks must have been […]

Kiwi Post: Remember When You Were Young

On August 5, 2015August 12, 2015 By admin

The greatest introduction to any song in the history of man is of course the almost nine minutes of instrumental that kick off “Shine On You Crazy Diamond’, by Pink Floyd. I defy anyone with an ounce of heart to sit through that 8:50 of creative genius without feeling moved. […]

How to treat a hamster

On August 29, 2014September 1, 2014 By admin

The other week I developed Man Flu. I was quite buoyed when I announced it to the family at the dinner table and they were all brimming with remarkable sympathy. Then I realised that their sympathy was aimed at themselves, who would apparently now face a week of hell. No […]

Kiwipost: Mark Bryan writes from New Zealand.

On April 15, 2013April 18, 2013 By admin

My new passion is swimming, and I’m quite proud of it. I realise that to Australians this is about as interesting as the remarkably witty comment to Scots about “what’s under your kilt” whenever we wear one. But that’s the point? Us poor Scottish people don’t do swimming. Although, like […]