The First Thing A Writer Must Do Is.........Find Another Income!!
I’ve moved back up the country again, returned to Auckland city. I couldn’t take it any longer living in the South Island’s Nelson. I’m a city boy at heart and spent half my life in London. Don’t get me wrong …stunning part of the country, lush vineyards, dramatic panorama, wonderful place to be if you’re a grape but otherwise far too quiet. There was nothing for me to do. Nothing in the way o…
You Can't Have Everything ..............Where Would You Put It?
Having dinner with my rich English friends last month got me thinking again about the whole class structure I grew up in. New Zealand certainly has one but unlike the U.K. it’s not directly in your face. At their home in Bath they had tables you couldn’t put things on and cushions you wouldn’t dare sit on. Expensive ornaments were placed in back lit alcoves. These people had shelves with just …
You Know All These Years I’ve Been Eating With The Wrong Fingers…!!
David, my ex-pat London lawyer friend had a visit from his parents this week….. …….Lord and Lady something or other…… ‘Loads-a-Money’ I think……man have they got serious cash ……I once visited their huge mansion in Bath, England…. monstrous place, even their chauffeur has a chauffeur. They’ve got glass hand bells for summoning servants and sporting trophies in a cabinet.
He says to me “my pare…
Laugh… I Nearly Did!!…………..
I got attacked by a dog a few days ago. It came out of nowhere this thing snarling and growling. Not sure what it was …. Some psychopathic pit-bull Chihuahua……
Readers Digest Book of Handy Hints says “ Once the attack has commenced use anything on your person as a weapon” ….I only had a Bic biro … what was I supposed to do …. Write on it?! (Please f**k off)
The owner came sloping along …...
Thanks To Tantric Yoga I Can Now Make Sex Last Up To Five Hours… Or Longer If I’m With Someone!!
I flew back up to the North Island last week . I’m not too fond of flying, I go out to the airport and see ‘Terminal’ written up …well….that puts me off for a start.
I mean I’m not one of your white knuckle passengers but I’m never happy. Especially when they start talking about the “unlikely” event of an accident and pointing to the way out!. I don’t know about you but at 48,000 ft … if anyt…
If you're looking for the maternity ward just follow the doors marked PUSH!
It’s my granddaughters birthday today and it doesn’t seem that long ago when I was racing through the hospital looking for that very ward. It was 4am and my daughter was about to give birth. Lucky for me I got there in time and what a privilege it was. It’s quite natural for the husband to be there I know that, but the father of the mother to be ? I was a little uncertain at first and then got …
Middle Age Is Like Underwear….. It Creeps Up On You .
My stitches have been removed so I’m off out with the camera again tomorrow. I don’t watch a great deal of T.V. so it’s been quite a novel few days catching up with all the news.
They were playing swing on the TV. last night, seems it’s coming back into fashion. At last young people have realised that it’s quite cool to hold on to your partner when you dance. I remember it well. As a child o…
The best part about procrastination is that you’re never bored, because you have all kinds of things that you should be doing.
Recovering from my bruises I’ve had time to think. All my life I said I wanted to be somebody. I can see now I should have been more specific.
When I was eight I had a teacher who I thought was wonderful, mainly because she believed there was more to early education than the repetitive chanting of numbers. She was also the art teacher and I glowed in that area. How I ended up in a high schoo…
Take the juice from a bottle of whisky
. I’ve been out of action for a few days and it seems like it could be a few more. I fell over of all things, something we don’t really do as adults much eh? I’d just bought a new camera lens and was engrossed in reading what was on the box as I walked along, just couldn’t wait till I got home. Crossing the road I caught the front on my boot on the tip of the centre island and down I went!!! N…
G"day I'm moving out already
Well into more than out of …..... into the new house down in Nelson in the South Island. Beautiful spot up a valley, stream running at the back a far cry from where i come from.I was brought up in the east-end of London and my family lived in the same house for more than sixty years
Ive only just unpacked…I’m out in the shed. .It’s been just as stressful moving islands as it has been movn…