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Yesterday’s Sunday Star-Times advertised upcoming concerts by Cliff Richard and the Shadows, Fleetwood Mac, Ry Cooder and Nick Lowe. Cliff ...

Bruce Connew is 60 today. And again tomorrow, because he is in France where it isn’t yet 31 August. This photo is of him in 1985, in August...

My old friend John Dybvig sent me this clip of him explaining New Zealand to David Letterman with a view to enticing him down our way. That’...

Lockwood Smith, Speaker of the House, during the debate in which Rodney Hide objected to being called “a dot dot dot”: “We have wasted so m...

I have no idea what this is about but it’s a great photo. Best of all, Google tells me that the camp is located at Quaker Lake. And inevitab...

Recently we discussed dogs . Now it’s the turn of cats. There is a new magazine called, and I’m not making this up, Feline Wellness . Here i...

The Sun reports that: A lesbian bride spent her wedding night behind bars after allegedly attacking a male bouncer with her stiletto. But ...

It’s my uncle Lloyd’s birthday today. He is 84. He is one of the nicest men you could hope to meet, even though he is an Australian. A few y...

Home Paddock has a daily post of significant events in history on that day. For 25 August she has Galileo and Captain Cook doing momentous...

Via Home Paddock (#17) I learn that on Tumeke ’s (#11) highly scientific ranking of New Zealand blogs, Quote Unquote has shot up 26 places...