At my age, and discounting mobility, I have say I’m blessed with extremely good health. Please note the qualifier ‘at my age’. I have a karate associate in Ōtautahi Christchurch. Eiko Hanshi Renzie Hanham. with whom I went to school. We shared a number of courses over the years and sat next to each other in […]
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Maiden Tāmaki
I’m not sure whether I’ve been clear enough in my earlier statements about my health. Mostly it’s great, sometimes it’s not. There are two reasons why, at least some of the time, my body is not quite right. These are: My excuse for (2) is that we didn’t know how to train properly, had no gyms […]
Edinburgh Comes Home
I’ve been to Edinburgh, but I don’t remember that much about it. It wasn’t that memorable. Grey clouds, and rain. I stayed in quite a nice hotel, small, and a bit classy. I had a nice first floor room that overlooked a rather elegant street. None of this was planned. The hotel just happened to […]
When I was a kid, New Year’s Eve was a bit of a thing.
Facebook 31 December 2021 When I was a kid, New Year’s Eve was a bit of a thing. I didn’t know then but where we lived was the wrong side of the tracks and brutally working class. It was post-war, the dawning of the 1950s, and everyone on our street lived in a state house. […]
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