The Book

Manners certainly didn’t apply in these fraternal disputes. I suppose there had to be some release from perpetually polite behaviour – we were lads after all – but our constant bickering eventually led to our having to be separated and given our own bedrooms. Of course I got the better bedroom and Richard was consigned…

For 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…

..self-assigned speed ratings. I had put myself in the class that would be able to average between 20 and 25 kph for the distance . And so it felt like I waited 30 minutes before I cleared the start line and wobbled off along Eastern Beach. I had been inveigled into this sporting event, the…

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