The Bloody Newsletter

..And another. The only alternative is to put the bike in the car and drive somewhere flatter, which seems to defeat the purpose of the bike, so rapid fitness is being forced upon me as well as expected, and unexpected, aches and pains. As the bike has the down-curved handlebars I get a sore neck…

..where you might be going. A period, or even a singularity, when one realises that this is as good as it gets. When you have achieved the right balance between youthful folly and the wisdom of age – a brief moment in time – such as when Goldilocks found the best porridge, chair and bed…

.. Mum’s dad Norman, on the other hand, was as bald as a badger (what does that mean?) well before he died at the frighteningly young age of 55. I can remember touching his clammy pate when we were jumping all over him at the end of the day as he tried to relax with…

..anything at all! Anyway, it was a perfect early autumn morning when we pulled over outside the Selwyn Gallery in Darfield, a two-horse town twenty minutes west of Christchurch where the snowless Southern Alps loom over the parched Canterbury plains, this day under a blank blue sky. Unlike the other very fine galleries we’d visited…

..days as a kindy kid armed with gallons of foul-smelling poster paints that always ended up resolving to the colour of shit), has different cultural connotations around the world and at different times in its history. ‘..it was an act of true cowardice and I consider it appropriate that the Australian team were wearing yellow.’…

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