Issue 127

Mike’s Pith & Wind cont. .. (I think it was on the ABC) about an apparently typical family in North Korea. (Let’s get over the ‘what is typical’ debate before we go any further). Of course, by Western standards they weren’t that well off in terms of consumer goods that may or may not qualify…

.. advised me there might be a good twenty minute wait as there were a few patients ahead of me. Indeed there were, but it was actually over an hour later that I was finally called into the surgery. In the meantime I’d read The Australian (thoroughly), sent elaborate texts to various people, written an…

..delighted by him doubling his bets to cover his losses, as they profited by the eight billion dollars that he had lost. This increased the bonuses, the eventual sale of Porsches, floating gin palaces, excessive dinner, divorce settlements etc. of the very few people who tended to sit in front of trading screens for far…

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..from a couple of old geezers venting about how things have deteriorated since ‘our day’. Vaguely apropos of that, I usually have no idea what I’m going to write about when approaching these P&W follies of mine and so I have adopted a standard preparatory procedure. First I have a quick squiz at Christchurch’s The…