Hawke’s Bay Whine Country
I ADORE Hawke’s Bay, I do BUT every now and then it needs a swift kick to the bot-tom to remind it of what’s important. Particularly in regard to
Two Worlds Colliding
American painter Andrew Wyeth’s painting ‘Christina’s World’ (1948), has fascinated me all my life. I can’t tell you why exactly, perhaps it was just the
Totally Stoned
Interesting I thought! I’d heard about it, been vaguely curious about it but I think it makes all the difference in the world when you actually know someone who’s doing it or going to do it in this case. You get keen to
No Head Shots
I always feel envious of beer drinkers at this time of the year. They make beer drinking look so positively palatial! Sitting beside my cousin Hamish at a family gathering recently I managed to snaffle the label off the beer he was drinking because the label made me
High Fidelity
Even after eight years I still love the Steve Frears directed ‘High Fidelity’ (2000) movie. I watched it again recently and I have to say, Cusack (like that most favourite of mine, Mark Harmon) is just so easy on the eye, watching is like eating home baked Madeira cake, too delicious for words!
