When thirty five candles means you’ll eat more wax than cake
iTunes is playing: Half a Boy and Half a Man – Sleepy LaBeef – Labour Of Love – The Music of Nick Lowe This wife of mine loves cats. And it was no surprise today when at the prata place on River Valley Road that she started telling me about how the cat that hangs […]
The push and pull of coming and going
iTunes is playing: I Miss You – Randy Newman – Bad Love I was thinking about how people come and go, but I couldn’t write anything better than this. I like it when non-English speakers express themselves in unique turns of phrases. It’s not Chinglish. It’s not bad English. It’s just English used in a […]
I can’t blog about it
iTunes is playing: Everytime We Say Goodbye – John Coltrane – On Stage 1962 [UK] There was a moment some time this weekend when I felt a familiar kick in the hollow guts. And it wasn’t when the All Blacks pipped the Wallabies in Wellington (I’m getting used to the Wobblies). I can’t talk about […]
Brotherhood
iTunes is playing: One Love/People Get Ready – Bob Marley & The Wailers – Legend My brother and I couldn’t be more different than chalk and cheese. He’s fair-skinned and gawky while I’m bronzed and supremely athletic. I’d go for a kayaking arvo while he’d pore over camera magazines. He’d think about stuff while I’d […]
Warming the cockles of the heart
iTunes is playing: Warm Your Heart – Aaron Neville – Warm Your Heart Because I stayed out late, I had to come home, shake off the beer buzz and work till now. ST didn’t want Jap, so we didn’t do Jap, but we did Bak Kut Teh instead. She also went to the little oasis […]