Issue 40

..the easement – I think we might’ve even gone home for lunch on occasions. Our home’s proximity proved crucial in one particular incident when, in my self-appointed role as boy-with-the-tightest-belt-in-school and in the middle of a game of bar-the-door in the school yard I suddenly felt my belt snap and my shorts come dangerously close…

..writ large on it, followed by the Australian Government logo and the various logos of the sponsoring medical-type partners along the bottom – or maybe the sponsoring is on the other foot, it being a government project. I guess I’m inclined to do the poo test. My sister Ann was on my case last time…

..somehow there was a feeling of restrained animosity which no other religion engendered, probably because other religions existed only in the coloured pages of The National Geographic, in countries far removed and absolutely foreign. Many did not even speak English or wear proper trousers. To be frank, Christchurch in the 1950s and 1960s was not…

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Mike’s Pith & Wind cont. ..winner taking home both tubes in triumph. There are endless examples of feeble synchronicity that we all experience daily – we just have to keep our senses alert to the possiblities. I’m not sure what it proves, but cumulatively it can have a pretty disconcerting effect, which might have something…

Mike’s Pith & Wind cont. ..without advertising their presence to the hapless motorists gliding below. I’m not absolutely sure what the thinking is – I’m pretty sure the traffic would more obediently slow down if the cameras’ presence was advertised, because I’ve seen this working in Auckland, and I believe it operates this way in…