Blessed silliness

Apart from the beautiful frozen landscape, another thing that fascinated me in the snowmageddon polar blast saga was the British actor Stephen Fry. I have been following him on Twitter and found his tweets oddly fascinating and rather amusing. For example, this was what […]

Delightful snowscape

When arrived, the "significant nationwide weather event", "the big chill" "the polar blast direct from Antarctica" and "once in the lifetime snow", aka snowmageddon, indeed caused a widespread disruption in transport and electricity supply, and many businesses and schools to close and some household […]

Primeval

Yesterday my friend Deb Plat gave me the link to a YouTube video of All Blacks performance of the classic “Ka Mate” haka in 2004, lead by Carlos Spencer. It was a good performance, though maybe a touch too tidy for my taste. …

A Quickie

Today was another classic "You can't beat Wellington on a good day". I hadn't been out for walk since July, and was lured out by the beautiful winter blue sky. I didn't have a lot of time, but I would just have a quickie […]