Dick’s Toolbox cont. ..real winner. I wandered into this musical genre through Stephen May, who learnt guitar from Gary Young. Stephen thought that as Mike is musically brilliant, some talent might have devolved to me – a supposition that would have pleased neither a geneticist nor a behavioural scientist. Mr May, apart from being a…
Mike’s Pith & Wind cont. .. however, as it was the subject of constant headlines and discussed in hushed tones by disquieted mums over cups of tea and soggy white cucumber sandwiches from Beaths to Ballantynes. Strangely however, I don’t once remember lesbianism being mentioned, either in conversation or in the media, confined as it…
.. but realised that he is a New Zealander so the sunburnt country will have to make do with Clive Palmer. Tentatively I might say that we have better gun laws but the similarities between the two countries are far greater than any differences. While we don’t have a George Bush in the closet we…
..(as represented on the For Pete’s Sake compilation CD that was produced to help raise funds for the second of Pete’s major Parkinson’s operations), Dragon, Thorpie, Russell Morris, John Farnham, Slim Dusty, Air Supply, Matt Finish, Australian Crawl, Mi-Sex, Pseudo Echo and Glenn Shorrock. No mention of any of my bands you’ll notice. Jamaican Farewell…
.. significant investment in both money and occupied space. If I was adding up – which in my darker moments I am – some might consider it a considerable investment. Which, in my darker moments, I do. I don’t know what some of these devices do – though there are a number that bear a…
.. 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…
.. and the damn thing doesn’t understand the phrase ‘Just shut up, will you!’ People will drive of the road screaming that they can’t take any more of The Eagle’s Greatest Hits’. You can take and initiate phone calls and have your text messages read out to you. My Subaru which has a dashboard that…