Can we (or should we) canola?
A friend of ours came over a year or so ago and, without being asked, decided to go through our pantry and circle the Evil Ingredients in any canned or […]
A friend of ours came over a year or so ago and, without being asked, decided to go through our pantry and circle the Evil Ingredients in any canned or […]
On 18 February 2010, in Whangarei, my little brother Dave decided that life wasn’t worth living. In fact, he’d most likely made that call in the days or weeks prior, […]
Prior to being part of an accident, all I knew about car crashes was learned from the television commercials advising us not to have one. And I’m exactly the kind […]
Two little girls, both with pretty curls Twins almost always in sync But one is a lover of any old colour While the other will only have pink. I have identical twin […]
The five-second rule is a universally recognised principle of common sense, which states that if food falls on the floor and is retrieved within five seconds, it can still be […]
And so into the box we dive. The box of wine that is. Is the bladder, as purists would have us believe, filled with cheap swill, unfit for consumption […]
As I get older I feel more of a need to understand the workings of the world around me. Not that it’s a burning yearning, more like a passing interest. […]
The purpose of this column is to answer questions. Not the ‘plaguing mankind since the dawn of time’ questions, but those that occasionally raise their hands from wooden bench seats […]
Great news! I have recently found out that someone in Canada died (that’s not great news, obviously, but stay with me), and that they have no next of kin (that’s […]
Why the hell would a man in his mid-40s suddenly up and buy a Ducati? This is what a lot of people asked me when I up and did it. […]