I’ve just had my weekly TV fix of Brothers and Sisters (TV One, 8.30pm Mondays). We’re up to the third episode. Episode 1 – promising – effective set up of the family and characters Episode 2 – not so good Episode 3 – enjoyable and watchable – has finally established itself as a worthwhile show. […]
21 October 1960 – 7 August 2007 The big heart of the Central Plateau and Lake Taupo welcomed me as I drove out of a rain squall up onto the Desert Road from Waiouru. A man with a heart almost as big had tragically died the week before. Bruce Douglas Grant had suffered a stroke […]
The Wellington Lions beat Manawatu 37 to 7 at the Cake Tin tonight – but I wasn’t there for the game – I was there to farewell Tana Umaga, playing his 100th game for Wellington. In a lack lustre game that Wellington should have won by a bigger margin Tana played with his usual flair, […]
The tragedy of the collapsing bridge in Minneapolis brought comparisons to our own Auckland harbour bridge here in godzone. I was amused to see in the weekend press – http://www.stuff.co.nz – a story about the “nippon clip-ons” and how Transit NZ have implemented restrictions on heavy vehicles using those outside lanes. They have reduced the […]
Today Sugar and I celebrated 25 years together. What an achievement. That’s longer than my mother and father stayed together, and they were married! We celebrated by having dinner at Logan Brown restaurant here in Wellington. The last time we went was the year it opened – which we were guessing would be nearly ten […]
I heard on Morning Report this morning that heavy smoking may slow rheumatoid arthritis. If you’re a sufferer of this disease you probably ran down to the dairy in your jammies to buy a 25 pack of Holidays. If you did rush out you might have missed the punchline: “Cigarette smoking is a known risk […]