A Picture Can Tell 1000 Lies
The old adage suggests a picture is worth 1000 words. But how many of those words are true?
Tag: 2024
Lolly Scramble
The government is galumphing rough-shod over community and environment with the Fast Track Bill. Worse, the short-listed projects looks like hand-outs to rich-listers, at least in the Wakatipu. It’s a lolly scramble for the wealthy and here’s what you can do about it.
Hurry Up and Wait
Time for a typhoon? Can you trust the media to tell you accurately whether a typhoon is turning up? Can you trust the media to tell you anything with accuracy? Should you just have a coffee and see what happens?
Familiarity
We’ve been doing up this house, soon to display the much-awaited ‘Seagull Gate’. The scale of enthusiasm for our gardening versus our painting has been interesting – is it about the blue? Or something else?
Mad Seagull Lady
We need more beauty in our built environment. This may, or may not, be painted seagulls on top of a gate.
Save me from Handbags
At a young age I swore never to own a handbag, as a item linked with sexism, vulnerability and, for me, frustration when my mother could never find what she wanted in her handbag. I have kept my vow. Or have I?
Novid
A positive RAT test – a trip down a memory lane my brain is reluctant to take. How much things have changed since early COVID days (not that we had RAT tests in 2020)!
Simple Simon
We make assumptions about people in milliseconds; how do those types of assumptions relate to Simon the Toyota Corolla and the Ford Everest? Read on to find out.
Inspiration, Perspiration and Trickery
There’s a famous quote saying that success requires far more perspiration than inspiration. I suggest success may also require some trickery – of oneself. Read on to find out how and why.
Kangaroo Hop
There was a social media storm over breaking at the Olympics; Australian competitor Raygun bombed out while claiming her goal was originality. But Sarah Nelson made her move 16 years ago!