Can't beat a spoon for dining
Can't beat a spoon for dining
We all peak at different ages. And the skills we have in adulthood are mastered in many weird and wonderful ways.
Roy Colbert
Pshaw to your mad theory, Complete Stranger
Pshaw to your mad theory, Complete Stranger
A complete stranger, male, small, assailed me in Diesoline Cafe last week, whanging the preposterous theory down on the table that my column-ending predictions and promises are bunkum, that they would never, or could never, happen.
Sweet temptations of retail
Sweet temptations of retail
In the fetid rotting swamp that is modern retail, many established shops have chosen diversity to survive.
Tall tales and true from the dim past
Tall tales and true from the dim past
We have been told by our elders for years of the power and beauty of storytelling. Oral history. Forget Google, go to the people who were there and make them talk.
Of Artoo-Deetoo and See-Threepio
Of Artoo-Deetoo and See-Threepio
During a routine nightly four-hour session on YouTube last week, I tumbled into an engaging little doco called Humans Need Not Apply.
Sailing through life unintelligently
Sailing through life unintelligently
Two close personal friends and I flung ourselves into a ferocious shouting fuddle last week on the topic of intelligence.
How and where should one wait in a pharmacy?
How and where should one wait in a pharmacy?
I don't think there is any doubt at all among rational thinkers that the most testing time in life comes when you are waiting for a prescription to be filled in a pharmacy.
Have the coat, need an occasion
Have the coat, need an occasion
There comes a time, after the chronological accident of high school, which threw you together with unlikely humans, that you gather together real friends, who share common interests and exist on an approximately similar intellectual level.
One of the Wonders of the Modern World
One of the Wonders of the Modern World
There is something about being a tourist that cranks my quaw.
'Nashville' has right idea for the greeter good
'Nashville' has right idea for the greeter good
Greetings. What howlingly unnecessary things greetings are.
'Nashville' just a bunch of purty sounds
'Nashville' just a bunch of purty sounds
SPOILER ALERT: The following column might give away hints about what will happen in the television show Nashville.
Little thought required about staying in bed
Little thought required about staying in bed
It is ironic how our guardians in life, teachers and doctors to name but two, are frequently completely at odds with each other.
Sound case for Reminder Robots
Sound case for Reminder Robots
Most rational thinkers would agree I am light years, nay, decades, away from Winston's SuperGold Card.
Wedding-speech treasure found in a bargain box
Wedding-speech treasure found in a bargain box
A refreshing development in lower-decile shopping has been the burgeoning proliferation of free stuff.
Revelling in fashion week ambience
Revelling in fashion week ambience
The iD Dunedin Fashion Show used to be something I never attended; I would just tell visitors to the city about it.
Still nervous, with barely a wasp in sight
Still nervous, with barely a wasp in sight
Wasps. I have written about these venomous little killers before, my fear of them born of a weak immune system that would be no more likely to stop a wasp sting than survive an intravenous insertion of the Black Plague.
Science still lags behind fixing ever-dripping spoons
Science still lags behind fixing ever-dripping spoons
Most rational thinkers would agree that despite the wondrous immediately recent advances in civilisation - the internet, laser surgery and Lydia Ko - there remains one unsolved conundrum that has broken the back of every scientist: the spoon that drips.
Scam letter 'could not have come at better time'
Scam letter 'could not have come at better time'
Nebraska was my favourite in a strong year for this year's Best Film Oscar.
Cat nightmare makes daytime appearance
Cat nightmare makes daytime appearance
Most adults still have nightmares. Surely.
Every mother's heart in her mouth
Every mother's heart in her mouth
When the grandson Rowan was in Chicago, his sport was soccer. He played with bigger boys, many of them wizard dribblers and ferocious tacklers from the continent of South America. Rowan's mother's heart was in her mouth through every minute of every game.