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Getting to the bottom
ByMikeRudd..and make the final report up. “Totally clear apart and medically sound apart from some wreckage from the Lusitania” Given that, prior to this procedure I have been taking peculiar and powerful drinks whose only role in life is to turn the one and a half metres of my colon into a pristine wasteland by…
A short walk
ByMikeRudd..Rock, near the Geelong sewage outflow, to Barwon Heads. On the Saturday we went about half way along so that we could return in time for lunch and wine with friends, but on the Sunday we went the whole way there and back. Two interesting things. On the Saturday Mary had dropped one of her…
The meaning of death
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Remembering Bill
ByMikeRuddFor Bill, portraits were an occupational hazard and a source of income; workmanlike, but oddly at variance with his other work, i.e. landscapes largely empty of people. Had he painted only portraits he would have been a very minor footnote in New Zealand art, but fortunately he spent nearly fifty years defining the landscape of…