Year: 2007

  • Repeal s377A

    I’d think of something funny to write about anything, but this isn’t one of the times that warrants any nonsense. I cut and paste for you an open letter to the Prime Minister which I hope you will read, then click on the link to the repeal377a.com site, and then add your name to the…

  • The difference between nice and polite

    It is difficult to like hospitals, and government general hospitals are even more unlikable because of their labyrinthine nature. You could walk for hours and end up in the same place and then ask someone in uniform where a particular ward is when it just so happens you’re standing right next to the ward you…

  • On sale

    “..that there’s nothing that a little black tape cannot fix… …and that when there’s really something that black tape cannot fix, you need to mark it with white tape”.. I am very chuffed about my first book being on sale from today “at major bookstores”. I don’t know how other authors do it, or what…

  • Tremors II

    OK, I got my sleep interrupted by a very long series of tremors, and we’ve just turned on the telly to watch CNA talk about last night’s quake, aftershocks and then this morning’s shaking news. “Normally our building code is sufficient to build buildings of safety”, says the engineer/professor who’s a guest on CNA right…

  • Tremors

    7.20pm This just in. Naomi thought the cat was under the sofa rocking it, causing her to feel a little dizzy. Then we found the cat on his perch, and so she asked me to sit on the sofa to feel it swaying a bit. “Why ah?”, she asked. Being the professional bullshitter that I…