I haven’t posted for ages. This post could be seen as a bit of a cop-out. Sorry. But – the posts I made on this site back in March about my journey around the South Island by motorbike has been published in the October edition of KiwiRider magazine. Page 57 to be exact 🙂 $10.00 […]
I’m in Sydney with the family and we’ve been surprised by how much eating here costs. It may be more to do with the fact that two seven and a half year old boys now eat as much as their mother and father, so we’re feeding (and paying for) four. Lunches have been in the […]
After my weekend posting about the protests against McDonalds setting up shop in Kaikoura Justine from Balmoral made her campaign against McDonalds in her suburb known to me. Little did I know there are communities around the country fighting to stop this fast-food giant establishing itself. And the Balmoral people look highly organised indeed. Check […]
I had the greatest pleasure of seeing Victoria Williams and Vic Chesnutt perform at the San Francisco Bath-house last night. What a joy! The first few notes are sung by Victoria and tears well up in my eyes. It’s going to be a great concert. I have known her music since the early 1990’s – […]
Karl Malden died today aged 97 years old. Many people my age will only remember him as Lt. Mike Stone in the 1970s television show The Streets of San Francisco, where he starred alongside a very young Michael Douglas. But it was watching him as Father Corrigan, the fearless Catholic priest in On the Waterfront […]
There’s a recession on but the staff at Wagamama don’t know this. Our family turned up there last night around 6.15pm for a quick meal. The place was buzzing and there were empty tables. Excellent – no waiting. Wrong – we were turned away. A young woman told us, and the others waiting at the […]