2012-12-18 16:59
America does NOT have a gun culture. I like guns. I always have. Like Adam Lanza, I started going to a gun club with my mum when I was about 11 years old. Like the La… Read More
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Well, it isn't really. Do the right thing, at the right time, for the right reason. No matter how hard it is. And when you fail, get up and go make it right.
2012-11-22 03:14
I do not have $2000. But I just spent that much. Bummer. Someone once told me that if you have a manufactured bed to sleep in, then you're already richer than&nbs&hell…Read More
2012-11-06 22:14
You're not going to like this.In London, the inner city has a congestion charge applied to road traffic - if you enter the zone, cameras record your vehicle and if you haven't pre-paid, oh d… Read More
2012-10-30 21:57
Free electricity. Want some? Fossil fuels are running out. Nuclear fission produces nuclear waste and the holy grail of fusion is still beyond our grasp. Wind, waves, solar… Read More
2012-10-24 08:50
I have been a bad parent. Occasionally. Mistakes. Bad decisions. I've always stayed within the bounds of what is culturally acceptable though, just like these pa… Read More
2012-03-14 09:46
Clicking 'Like' on Facebook does not make you a humanitarian. Or so a thread I got involved with last week said. I tend to agree. At least in part. Kony2012, the now viral… Read More
2012-02-24 08:20
It’s Monarch butterfly season here. We have 2 swan plants outside, covered in big, fat, stripy caterpillars. My daughter inspects them every day. We have 5 chrysalises at the mo… Read More
2012-02-24 07:59
Daddy, what’s Voodoo? Cinderella, 101 Dalmations, Sleeping Beauty. Classic Disney tales. The older ones followed a general theme. The innocent centr… Read More
2011-12-03 18:13
I have a need. It seems.Recently I joined a bloggers group called the Fellowship of Devotional Bloggers. It’s a collection of blogs that are meant to encourage or build up… Read More
2011-12-03 09:42
100 pigs. Sows, in fact. Where would you get 100 pigs from? We just hosted the Rugby World Cup here in New Zealand. Twenty different countries competed. It was the la… Read More
2011-11-12 04:04
I only have myself to blame.There is an old Indian fable about a man who meets a mysterious stranger who gives him 3 pots of gold. Two are filled to the brim whilst the third is not q… Read More
2011-11-08 08:36
I am weird. Apparently.Yesterday, I proved it once again. I cycled to work. Nothing unusual there. But I stopped at every red light and waited for every green.&n&hell…Read More
2011-10-30 06:26
Today is my day off. That's why I'm so busy. My beautiful wife works one day a week – on my day off – so I am a househusband. Get little one up, breakfasted, wash… Read More
2011-10-27 02:43
I am bored. Bored, bored, bordity bored bored bored. It's not that I have nothing to do. I have loads to do. Things to do, places to go, people to see. But I can't do any o… Read More
2011-10-21 06:24
What is this man worth?This kidnap victim had his ransom paid. The price? 1027 convicted criminals pardoned and released. Gilad Shalit was kidnapped by Islamic militants ju… Read More
2011-10-04 10:30
Oh NO. Now I've gone and done it. I have seen this knocking around the intertubes for a short while and now I've gone and watched it... The whole 33minutes... … Read More
2011-09-14 09:45
Death and near-death.My wife is a nurse. It is both immensely rewarding and immensely draining. She has spent 20 years in acute clinical environments, looking after very si… Read More
2011-09-07 05:56
We binned the bin. And that was just plain wrong.As humans, we are supposed to be stewards of Creation. The apex organism. Responsible and accountable. In the movie T… Read More
2011-09-06 10:38
Heart disease or diabetes. Which would you choose? I went to a cafe with my wife yesterday. We got coffees and I wanted a snack. I stared at the options behind the glass.&nb&hell…Read More
2011-09-06 10:10
My church is outstanding. So why do I feel undernourished? Most of us turn up on a Sunday morning, sit and listen to a stirring speech, have a coffee and wander out. Is tha… Read More
2011-08-14 08:27
I burst into tears recently. In a public place.In a prayer meeting in fact. No surprises, I had expected to. Cumulative grief leaking out. I’d felt heavily burdened f… Read More
2011-07-21 04:56
It's the guilt that stopped me writing. My wife has been away 3 times in the last 6 months. The last time was the shortest but man, was it the hardest. I was overwhelmed wit… Read More
2011-06-21 10:56
My wife is in England for her Dad’s funeral. Today is Father’s Day. Life will be different from now on. Melvyn is the first of our parents to go. The youngest an… Read More
2011-06-19 11:49
My wife needed help. She is in England. It is an increasingly secular, post-Christian culture. Some call this progress but the country has lost its way. There is… Read More
2011-06-19 11:47
When the rabbit died at my daughter's kindy, we said he had gone to Heaven. Now her Grandfather is dying. She has been asking me alot about Heaven recently. Where it is, ho… Read More
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