Issue 96

..a glass of water. But after a few kilometres of uphill a rest was definitely called for so we glided in with all the grace of our combined one hundred and thirty-two years could muster. Which was limited. So there we sat outside on the sunny veranda, two OMILs (Old Men In Lycra), Doug with…

..around in pods texting their friends and acquaintances about what a good time they were having. As they were on a floodlit hill in a gale wearing tee-shirts, shorts and fluorescent wrist bands, this seems somewhat unlikely. But the messages no doubt made their friends reply that they were having an even better time where…

.. their lack of salesmanship, because after twenty minutes of standing in the bitterly cold wind that was whipping round the schoolyard in a numbed kind of reverie interrupted only by the unwanted blandishments of the blotchy-faced woman in the crocheted poncho selling wax cups of tea and $2.00 raffle tickets (prizes of this year’s…

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.. the Rudd boys originated. As a film it exemplified the last embers of ember that were still being instilled in the bosom of New Zealand’s youth. What I had not realised was that the 2.6-metre tall marble statue, which was badly damaged in the earthquake, had been sculpted by Scott’s wife Kathleen. It had…