Spectrum of information

2025-07-23

I was surprised to learn, not long ago, that my wife, and all my children consider me to be 'on the spectrum'.

The bard and the maiden

2025-07-16

A funny thing happened today, at the Cambridge Farmer's Market.

You've got to have a plan

2025-07-09

Well actually, I've lived most of my life without one; turned up in NZ for the first time in 1980, and apart from a few trips home, have been here ever since.

Traffic Flow in Cambridge

2025-07-03

In 2017 Cambridge got a new roundabout, courtesy of the NZTA, at the intersection of Hamilton Road and Victoria Street, next to St Andrews Church.

The perils of the morning walk

2025-06-26

I went to the doctor last week and she prescribed Escitalopram - an anti-depressant.

Panic at the Vatican

2025-06-23

There was a gay cardinal, love

Austerity, Verity

2025-06-23

There was an old lady called Verity

The plump priest

2025-06-23

There was a plump priest at the Vatican

Intrepid Antarctic Explorer

2025-05-21

An intrepid Antarctic explorer

Grocer Ricardo

2025-05-20

There was a young grocer, Ricardo

The First Appointment with The Urologist

2024-03-22

One of the common aspects of the many consultations Nikki and I have attended in the past couple of months is that we go in with the expectation of coming out with more certainty than when we went in.

A Phone Call From A Surgeon

2024-03-20

The next evening I was surprised to receive a phone call from RF.

Ultrasound Scan

2024-03-19

The first appointment after that initial visit to the GP was an ultrasound scan of the lump in my groin.

The First Visit to the Doctor

2024-03-12

I waited until the day before the appointment before I told Nikki.

How It Started

2024-03-10

One day in February 2024 my wife Nikki felt a small lump at the top of my left leg.

Inconvenient truths...

2022-01-18

Creationism vs evolution - Christopher Hitchens (a while ago now - he died in 2011) said 'The debate is over'.

Valuing our resources

2021-11-30

I wrote, a couple of weeks ago, of my boatbuilding escapades and the large Kauri beams which sit on the floor of my garage pending incorporation into the structure of the boat.

A new life for my kauri

2021-11-16

I'm doing a bit of recycling. Actually I am building a boat, but bear with me.

Vax and fiction

2021-10-05

There seems to be a fair bit of anger in the community directed towards the prime minister.

Yesterday when I was young

2021-09-21

Someone said to me at the weekend that the world is in a mess.