On Thursday 23rd May, flight SQ286 departing Auckland at 12:10, awaits as our tubular portal to the budding field’s of a Welsh spring. ( Posy type, not the social uprising). Within a 30 hour period, the four of us, collectively, stand to travel further than any of our grandparents likely journeyed in their entire lives. […]
Places like this are only found by either pixies or children. For starters, it was somewhere past the distant parameter of cell phone range, which automatically reduces its chances of being found by at least 95% of the world’s Western population. On our first evening there, I went over to fetch the boys for tea, […]
Death came swiftly and unexpectedly. On the instructions of a specialist, our attempts to resuscitate proceeded with fumbling fingers disconnecting the leads, before we placed the body upside down on its head to reverse a suspected air embolus in the cooling system. Despite our best efforts, these endeavours were in vain.. After ninety minutes of trying to save its life, our 23 year old Lehel fridge […]
Dulcet tones from a modern pop group, merged with the aroma of cappucinos, as we sat in a swanky Parnell café surrounded by the ‘after work’ crowd of today’s Auckland. Its music, décor and clientele, all seemed to highlight the transition of a time that separated our current lives from earlier days. Years ago, the medium we […]
The quiet morning was disturbed by a ringing alarm. Instinctively, my hand rose from the warmth of subterranean covers to straighten a lazy finger and hit the snooze button. The role of the forefinger plays a crucial part in satisfying any snoozeaholic’s habit. Just five more minutes I thought. From the association of darkness and […]
