Huts off to them
People in Waipukurau are so used to them they barely give them a second glance. Yet, even after all these years of being away I can’t look long enough at them. It’s that old story of familiarity. Lord Alfred Tennyson got it in one actually when he said,
The ‘Tavi’
I often feel that buildings are like people, you never really know them until you get a little up close and personal. That’s when you see them as they truly are, flaky paint and all or with wrinkles where you’ve always suspected they’d be but were too polite to look.
Higher Trails
Jerry Seinfeld once said, “the reason people are scared of flying is because people can’t fly. He says, it’s like putting a fish in a car, it’s just not right!” His of course was a humorous take on human behaviour but he must be fish-mouthed, like I am, by
Lights out on the Mainland
This time last year, I was living in Sydney and run off my feet. I vowed to myself I’d never have another years’ end like that and I haven’t. Why? Because sometimes the only person who’s going to tell you what’s what is the one
Marshwigglian Musings
He famously (or infamously depending on your disposition) said, “Nothing wrong with me. Not a frog. Nothing frog with me. I’m a respectabiggle” and “Suppose we have only dreamed, or made up, all of those things—trees and grass and sun and moon and stars and
