The Longest Day

by | Dec 22, 2005 | Life Journal

When you’re running over Mt Iron and you strike the view (I run from the back to front to ensure that experience), and it almost brings you to tears, and it’s 9:40pm – you know it’s close to the longest day. After my well-documented ankle...

The term comes to an end

by | Dec 10, 2005 | Life Journal

There’s been a bit of dead air over the last couple of months. It’s a school thing. No matter how well-planned one is (and this one does not name planning as one of his strengths), things always accelerate towards the end of the school year. NCEA...

Define yourself

by | Oct 23, 2005 | Life Journal

A guy who I have never met, but whose blog I read religiously, recently included in his a series of lists that I found curious enough to decide to respond to his suggestion that visitors to his site do the same. So, here I go:Ten defining songs:”Closer to...

"Fabulous" re-enters the vernacular

by | Oct 16, 2005 | Life Journal

So, Tim and I went to see “Fifty Ways of Saying Fabulous” the other day. It was great to see so much that was recognisable in a film made locally. I liked being in Wanaka’s “Cinema Paradiso” with Tim and surrounded by parents and kids...

I can walk

by | Sep 29, 2005 | Life Journal

In fact my limp is so minimal now that I’m convinced it looks like those kinds of limps that people who can’t be bothered walking faster affect during tramping expeditions. The kind that occasionally, inadvertently, changes leg. I’m still seeing the...