The older I get the more inclined I am to see the past in a new light. It’s rather like seeing all the things that have happened to me so far as being happenings on a long, bright summer’s day with no night. Well, perhaps just a little night. It’s fair to say that I […]
Month: April 2025
The Theatre
2024 was a good year for the theatre, the theatre in me and even me in the theatre. Just a tiny wee bit of me in the theatre It’s a garbage misquote (by me) from the wonderful Raymond Hawthorne (‘love the theatre in you, not you in the theatre) who had most probably borrowed it […]
Karate
I found karate later in life – at age 60 – which is not to say I hadn’t had opportunities earlier. I had, but training in what I saw as some obscure Japanese martial art never featured in my list of priorities. There was always rugby, cricket, girls, and work … More fool me. It’s […]
The Seido Karate Rainbow Class
In the middle of the year, Senpai Vivian from Auckland Seido Karate Morningside, one of this country’s most committed and capable Rainbow allies and a good friend, organised a beginner’s class for rainbow identifying and rainbow allied people who wanted to give this karate thing a go. We started our karate journey at Morningside and […]
Surgery
In 2024, I had my standard bout of surgery, in this case, a new left hip. I already have an artificial right hip, a metal left knee, and a ‘piano wire’ joined Achilles tendon. This new surgery was scheduled for six months ago but, being sick of taking pills, I’d made the unilateral decision to […]
University of Auckland IDEA Brain Study
We had a couple of young wāhine come to our door and ask whether there were any ancient people, antiquaries almost, geriatrics, in the whare. Cushla said yes, as apparently, I qualify. The two young wāhine were academics from the University of Auckland who introduced me to a major study that was being undertaken through the University […]
Medical Scans or ‘How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Health System’
I’ve spoken briefly about my health and the health system, but I haven’t spoken about being made redundant by AUT. Redundancy is always a shitty process, but AUT still managed to make it about as bad as it could possibly have been. Not just for me but for all of those made redundant at the […]
RymanHealth ‘Senior New Zealander of the Year’
In early December, I was contacted by the people who run the New Zealander of the Year Awards and informed that I was, once again, a semi-finalist (top 10) for Senior New Zealander of the Year yet again. I must admit I was really chuffed as it’s a nice acknowledgement of the work I do […]
I love travel!
This weird life of mine! It feels as though I’ve been a few times round the block which is a bit crazy considering I was eighteen years old before I ever climbed onto a plane – Ōtautahi to Whanganui-a-Tara in 1963, a return trip for my girlfriend’s sister’s wedding – and fifty-two before I left […]
China and Korea without Moi
I love travel, but this year I didn’t go anywhere. Unless you include Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington. I don’t, which is not to say I don’t like Te Whanganui-a-Tara – I do – but flying in or out of that city isn’t my idea of a great way to spend even a few terrifying minutes on any given […]
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