Aging is an extraordinary process, where you become free to be the person you always should have been – David Bowie.
Who else besides me is also just a little bit (or a lot) fascinated by bridges? I don’t have a full-on obsession about them, but for me there is still something intriguing and compelling about them, especially old bridges. Maybe it’s because they light up my imagination with the stories, both known and unknown, that …
I’m boiling mad! There’s a lot to be boiling mad about in this mad world, but in this particular instance, I’m boiling mad at the right-wing Australian government. In particular, how they have blood on their hands from the out-of-control fires raging there. Slashing public funding for essential services was a really bad idea. Now, …
Continue reading How bad does it have to get before we stop the madness of climate change denial?
Dear K, Where did 2019 go? And 2018 and 2017? The perennial question! Well, despite the ever-present bemusement at the end of another year, here we are at the end of another year. As promised last year, here is the EOY letter to yourself. So, let’s have a look back and see what went on …
I’m watching a terrible Netflix series at the moment called Virgin River. There are a lot of terrible Netflix series to choose from, and this one doesn’t disappoint in its awfulness. Why am I watching it? To fill in gaps of time when I’m not doing anything, and can’t be arsed working my brain with …
Continue reading The Awfulness I’m Watching on Netflix Right Now.
The young man was throwing a massive, explosive tantrum. He was going ballistic over who knows what. A puff of dust rose from the ground where he threw down the whitebait pole-net. The dog jumped up from where he was lying in the sun and got out of the way. The young man’s two mates …
I done it. I done gone and got myself an ebike. That’s it in the header pic. Flash as, eh? Admittedly, purple wasn’t my first colour choice, but red was out of stock, and purple was my next preference. Red is a popular choice, it seems - purple not so much. In fact, it was …
Continue reading Becoming the Boss of my Ebike – instead of the other way round.
The best stories started up as we were gathering to leave, as the best stories often do. There’s something about the farewell process, after a get-together, that brings out one final spark from us. Plans and ideas suddenly come forth, we hear the shadiest and most risqué tales, and the ‘fess-up-time stories get told. We …
Dear Mr D, what an enlightening conversation we had online the other day. I’m very happy that you took the time to explain to me how women need to cut men some slack. Testosterone certainly sounds like a real bastard! That bloody hormone, eh? It makes males horny and just want sex, so they can’t …
Continue reading Dear Mr D – here are some rules about women.
Anyone who knows me, also knows that I am a sucker for books. If you do know me, but didn’t know that before now, then you can add that to the list of fascinating things you know about me. Bookshops and libraries give me secret joy. I feel a wee pleasurable flutter of anticipation in …
Continue reading This has got to be the Teeniest Bookshop in New Zealand.
I’ve got a bone to pick with Morgan Freeman. Or, rather, I have a bone to pick with whoever wrote the movie The Bucket List. Morgan Freeman was just the actor who got to say the lines about the list of things he wanted to do before he kicked the bucket. He and Jack Nicholson …
Contemplations from quakey quirky Christchurch
Liberate Animals • Liberate Our Spirits
For we cannot tarry here, We must march my darlings
Lady professor by day. Reader by night. Sometimes I write books.
A New Zealander living in Scotland who loves cargo bikes
Exploring best practice and research in sexual violence. A loud voice in the fight against victim blaming. Written and Managed by Jessica Eaton, Doctoral Researcher in Forensic Psychology
"Propaganda is as powerful as heroin; it surreptitiously dissolves all capacity to think." — Gil Courtemanche
Musings of an ex-pat in France.
You - philosophical, thoughtful, witty. Me - still thinks fart jokes are funny. We should DEFINITELY get together!
On being vegan - the good, the bad, and the brilliant
Best Friends for Sixty Years and Counting...
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