Interim arrangements

  In a strange way it is only now, after almost three months, that I am adjusting to what has happened. Three days ago, the horizontal synde...

Yesterday I had a melt down. It was a long time coming. In fact, I had been waiting and hoping for it for weeks, like a great cleansing, a w...

I am back, the garden has greeted me with an explosion of colours, I missed the spring abundance of lilac and tulips and wisteria, but I am ...

Almost. This time tomorrow I will be languishing somewhere at Auckland International waiting to board the airship to Singapore and after ten...

Slowly slowly I am moving out of weeks of stasis, taking unaided steps with the right leg in a tight CAM boot, 24/7 for the next six weeks a...

I am half way through my non weight bearing sentence, less than three weeks to go, fingers crossed, and while I am gettig pretty good at hop...

Greetings from the stranded beetle. The post OP cast has been removed, revealing impressive bruising and nicely healed stitches. (Don't ...

Greetings from the secret den of the stranded beetle.  I was booked to fly to Singapore this week, imagine. I got a nice refund from Singapo...

It’s a Steal Seema Jilani March 19, 2026 attention investors / fixer upper oasis on the Med / erected _________ on remnants of sacred souls...

The beautiful, messy, buzzing and welcoming city of Wellington is covered in many walkways, some are easy to do, an hour or two, always with...

Four years equals 48 months equals 208 weeks equals 1460 days equals 35040 hours equals 2012400 minutes equals 126144000 seconds. Ukrainians...

For the past month and the next and the next, I am in a far away place, doing the school run, laundry, gardening, cooking, shopping and lots...

The absurdity of being asked to justify the need for feminism in a world where men in positions of extraordinary power were humiliating them...

  Here I am, where birds the size of a child's fist make the loudest call, where butterflies the size of my hand surround me on my morn...

The Greek philosopher Aristotle, who was a student of Plato, another Greek philosopher who himself had been a student of Socrates, who is of...

. . . if at some point your eyes look at a video of someone getting murdered in broad daylight and your mind’s first instinct is to say but ...

  Dangerous pavements. But  this year I face the ice With my father’s stick. Seamus Heaney    There is snow, quite a lot of it, something th...

If I write that I do feel a tiny bit better, I may jinx it and although superstition is not part of my life skills, I remain cautious. At le...

It's cold outside. The last couple of weeks: After the fairly mediocre head cold and the course of antibiotics and the subsequent restor...

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was adopted on this day in 1948  in response to the “barbarous acts which […] outraged the ...

Last week's offerings: Limited sunshine, one gorgeous sunrise and the entire remaining quota of grey clouds left for November. (Temperat...

Today is our daughter's birthday. As always, the events of that day - and the 48 hrs before her birth - are on my mind. And not just to...

  A reliable sorce informed me a while ago that the various AI apps can  - depending on variables such as age, habits, career, family and wh...

As mentioned a few times here, English is not my first language and since I had been told during my school years that I had no talent for mo...

I don't have an actual union card any longer. The last one looked like a credit card and I had it tucked away somewhere with my work pap...

In this part of the world, we don’t observe the dead, we just shunt them aside with awkward funerals. In the past and in some corners of the...