Issue 114

Our first regular dentist was the ancient Dr McIntyre, who was on the first floor off Cathedral Square in the then small but undiminished Christchurch. There was a clanking open-frame lift with pantographic doors, but one felt safer taking the wide polished wooden stairs up to the linoleum landings with their doors of frosted glass….

.. and ineffectually for seemingly hours. But here’s the thing. It was actually only half an hour. And here’s the other thing. Apart from me, and the people round me party to my mutterings, nobody seemed to appreciate that it was pure crap. Because then, breathtakingly, Elvis left the stage. And not only that, the…

I’m back! And I don’t mention the Mighty Tiges once!! (oops..) Hello and welcome. After one month and one day with a lower back problem, I am at last back in the land of the vertical. I cannot express the joy I feel to be be TALL again and of being able to do THINGS….

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..could access the music room, which was equipped with a grand piano and comfortable looking chairs with flower print covers – it probably doubled as a lounge / reception room now that I think about it. Our grandmother was a formidable pianist and we would spend many an evening singing selections from South Pacific and…