Issue 61

Let me say that it can rain in New Zealand. But, by prior arrangement with Elizabeth, not where we were. Whilst we were in Auckland in rained in the South Island – one place had Melbourne’s average annual rainfall in one day – and when were in the South Island it rained in Auckland. However…

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..driving-in-the-city impatience and exasperation. It’s a neat trick I jotted down the music that had become my soundtrack and I’ve just checked the dertails on the ABC Classic radio website. It was a guitar piece called Chamber Concerto by Shaun Rigney, whom I’ve not heard of before, played by one Antony Fielding*, whom I’ve not…

.. if he’s got a cold when I ring, but he doesn’t want to leave Rotorua as the few friends he has left in the world are there or thereabouts. Maria and I intend to pay him a visit in April when we’re in New Zealand for a short holiday, but we’re not going to…

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Zippo distraction Bill’s column is still on the drawing board due to a slight problem with the alleged Zippo he bought in San Francisco. Well, it turned out not to be a Zippo after all, but a Taiwanese replica, and that has led to a revision of the image used in his world-famous Zippo clip…