Issue 153

.. because of my familiarity with the PC format. I shouldn’t have bothered. The Windows 8 platform in my Notebook bears little resemblance to my XP or Windows 7 equipped PCs and the hardware is relatively heavy and it’s onerous to lug around. I hate throwing still-functioning things away so I continue to lug it…

..in place. The fact that the country was a democracy, beholden to the separation of powers, was regarded as an inconvenience to be circumvented by any means. The law and the legislature were routinely ignored by hiding activities behind a wall of secrecy justified by legal opinions that were never revealed to those who asked….

..simple, but in any case I’m generally pleased with the result. It seems that a lot of second-guessing has been replaced with an instinctive but apparently reliable certainty about what is required and how to get it. I don’t know if it’s a style exactly, but it’s a good starting point. No thought yet as…

.. tastes embrace the elegant and refined, she still prides herself on being able to spot a bargain. Understandably she’s been hassling me for quite a while about the medieval trackie pants and a few weeks ago she spotted some bargain trackies coming up in Aldi. Aldi. Aldi was unknown to me before she and…

Mike’s Pith & Wind cont. .. David packing. (Or so the story goes – David’s recently been giving my brother and me unsolicited hints that there’s another side to the story). Jump forward forty years and I’m holidaying in NZ and stopping off in Rororua on the way to see mum in Auckland. To my…

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