Cyclists Can Do Anything
What can you transport with a bike? Plenty, including a walking frame. And if you shift a walker on a bike what are you? Mad? Or lucky?
Tag: New Zealand
The Hand that Feeds You
Is disliking tourists in the Queenstown area biting the hand that feeds you? Who is essential to make a place in which one wants to live?
Bras, BBQs and beautiful homes
What do we want? Do we want more when more is offered to us? I wrote a song about the too many coffee options available and this oversupply of choices turns out to extend to bras, BBQs and homes.
Tail of a Whale
When you see a stranded whale how do you feel? Different cultures can have different reactions. And should we be sadder than when we squash an insect?
Finding Your Path
We’re all looking for our path, including when we are staggering up a steep slope covered with tree fall. However, there’s nothing that beats the satisfaction of getting to the top of the mountain.
Jobs for the Neffs
Sorry frog, you’re in the road when it comes to progress. Shane Jones is out to provide jobs for neffs at the expense of the environment. What’s a neff? Should their jobs overrule the rights of frogs?
Ministry for Regulation
We’re soon getting a Ministry for Regulation. Should we be pleased? Or not? And just how Orwellian might this title be?
Forty-Nine Steps (or the Government of Undoing)
Where the Labour government was about doing too much all at once, our new coalition seem focused on undoing all at once. They have announced forty-nine steps for their first hundred days – where will those steps take us?
Black Friday
‘Black’ days are generally not days you want to remember. What’s the origin of ‘Black Friday’ and what’s to like about it?
Mullygrubbing
Mullygrub – an excellent word with a four-hundred-year etymology that has taken it from referring to a headache to referring to an Australian bowling an underarm cricket ball. Or is that the same thing?