Aging is an extraordinary process, where you become free to be the person you always should have been – David Bowie.
The weather report said it wasn’t going to be raining on the West Coast for a few days, so I hoofed it over there to visit Sis in Westport. Rain and the West Coast of the South island are inseparable. Rain, annoying though it might at times, is what makes the West Coast what it …
Happy New Year! What a year 2020 has been. I, like many others - I suspect - am crossing my fingers for 2021 to be better. I’m not sure if it’s my imagination, but the last few years seem to have ended with a much bigger collective sigh of relief, and a much bigger collective …
Continue reading Bringing in the new year with an attitude of gratitude
It’s that time again, when I look back on the year that was and do a write-up on it. This is ‘truth time’. I.e. the truth of what I both have and haven’t done, although what I have done is decidedly easier to write about. However, by doing that it may get me thinking about …
Sometimes I wish I was a gardener. Admittedly, it’s a fleeting wish, but occasionally it does flit across my mind. I love the look of a lovingly tended garden, whether wild, wacky, or manicured, but I don’t love being the one making it like that. Actually, I do have a wild garden, but it’s wild …
I had to laugh. A friend’s friend’s adult child declared that they wished old people would piss off so they – i.e. the friend’s friend’s adult child and co. – could take over running the world. I’m picking they meant anyone over forty years of age. Does any generation ever really change how they think? …
For better or worse, New Zealanders have cast their votes in a referendum in favour of assisted dying for terminally ill people, but not in favour of legalising recreational marijuana use. There’s a lot of upset people around right now. The ‘yes’ voters for recreational marijuana use are mightily pissed off with the ‘no’ voters, …
Continue reading New Zealand votes Nope to dope, and Yes to assisted dying
From time to time I haul myself off to the Christchurch Art Gallery, because I know nothing about art. It mostly confuses me, apart from those art works that depict what I know and understand from the real world. Even with that, don’t ask me to discern between ‘good’ art and ‘bad’ art, because I …
Continue reading Positive discomfort – aka: a visit to the Christchurch Art Gallery
It is with much regret and sadness that I note the time-honoured and magnificent institution of communal women’s toilets is under serious threat. In this gender-neutral age, women’s toilets are being gender-neutralised away. Such a shame. Whilst I can understand that having gender neutral toilets as well is important for non-conforming children and adults, I …
Continue reading The sad demise of the magnificent institution of communal Women’s Toilets.
It was my birthday on Thursday, so I wagged work and did a day trip to Akaroa¹ with the nephew. Like me, the nephew is single, child-free, a tad nerdy, and works from home. We rub along quite well together. My birthday is in the ‘busy’ time of year for birthdays, and is the seventh …
Continue reading It was my birthday, so I wagged work and went to Akaroa
My bro in Australia recently emailed an inspiring story to his siblings here in New Zealand about a little Aussie battler (battler: an ordinary person who perseveres through adversity). He thought that in these pandemic days, we could do with a little uplifting. I was immediately suspicious. My bro, although a decent enough man – …
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