Issue 66

..of two young ladies ( I am using the term ‘young’ loosely in the same way as you might describe the morals and ethics of the NSW Labor party) who rowed backwards below us for about an hour. The convention of rowing is that you face the blunt end (the stern) so that you can…

..about the issues they raise and are careful to get the tone and the clarity of their arguments just right to pass the editors’ stringent scrutiny, real or imagined. Sure, the letters are still not all great, but the standard is generally streets ahead of the ‘anything goes’ FB sewer. And I suspect that a…

..found a story that I’d seen in on the NZ Prime News about a Kiwi musician, Don McGlashan, (whom I saw in the Comedy Festival a few years ago in The Front Lawn), who’d ridden his bicycle into an open car door, (somewhat ironically in Auckland’s Dominion Rd, which featured in a hit song he’d…

..painting of mine. The original purity of design has been a trifle compromised by the modifications but there were impracticalities inherent in triangular garden beds. Manoeuvring wheelbarrows around one hundred and twenty degree angled corners being one. During the reconstruction effort I have discovered that red gum is very much heavier than I thought, moving…