Issue 126

..Airport” as we started our descent in Whenupai, Auckland’s main airport until 1965. This inspired great confidence in the passengers, already frightened by the low altitude, turbulence, cloud and the single toilet. It was an age of muted optimism. Our father was a stock and station agent and would drive up from Eketahuna, redolent of…

..arrived in England courtesy of the English soldiers who were then campaigning in the Lowlands as part of the Thirty Years War. Gin almost became the national sport. It was estimated that every fourth house in England was a gin mill and employers provided gin as part of their pay to workers. It is alleged…

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Mike’s Pith & Wind cont. ..but it couldn’t make up for the subsequent psychological scarring – it was an utterly humiliating night. To give you an example: there was a farcical minute or two when this guy tried to engage me in a meaningful conversation, blissfully unaware that I was actually playing at the time!…