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...

I sprained my ankle

by | Sep 11, 2005 | Life Journal

Well, a couple of days ago I sprained my ankle. So badly that I still am unable to put any pressure on it. It’s not broken, I’ve had an x-ray, but it’s been the most painful experience so far this life. The first night was agony in bed where the...