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A postcard arrives. It is for me, which is exciting. Recently my wife turned 35 (at least that’s what we tell the children), one child turne...

The Press reports : The Canterbury District Health Board’s community alcohol and drug service clinical head, David Stoner, said more young ...

This is the late great Melodious Thunk in Oslo, 1966, with Charlie Rouse on sax and possibly Larry Gales on bass and Ben Riley on drums, in...

This was what light entertainment television was like in 1973, Cilla Black duetting with Marc Bolan of T Rex on “Life’s a Gas” from his bril...

The American actress Debbie Reynolds is best known to those under 50 as the mother of Carrie Fisher, aka Princess Leia. However, those over...

The Fundy Post on a certain recent volcanic erupto-event: For those of us living in Better Britain, the volcano crisis may be a blessing. I...

I was in Wellington to attend the opening of my friend Mary McIntyre ’s new exhibition at the NZ Portrait Gallery , in Shed 11 on the waterf...

I flew to the capital yesterday to meet a friend at 5.30 p.m. at Queens Wharf. I was about 40 minutes early. I asked myself, what would my f...

I have spent the last three days editing a book on-screen, not quite 24/7 but it feels like it. And it wasn’t the manuscript, it was a PDF o...

For years Bill Manhire was able to boast – not that he would have – that, as the oration conferring on him his honorary degree of Doctor of...