Tonight I watched a track on TVNZ’s Close Up programme concerned with ensuring kids start the new year with good teeth brushing habits. It’s almost laughable that in 2009 we should find ourself as a country in this sad state of affairs. That the national broadcaster must interview a ‘dental nurse’ and demonstrate for parents and kids alike how to correctly brush your teeth clearly shows just how far we’ve come in the past 25 years. An interesting [...]

With a title like that I expect you may wonder what I am about to write. Put simply this brief post is about shock, the shock of having someone killed in your city. I feel lucky in that I live in a city like Dunedin where this is a reasonably rare thing and yet when it happens it’s a very sobering affair. The young women who lost her life so suddenly last night and her [...]

I just got back from Sydney and flew these guys international for the first time in several years – I don’t get out much sigh.. The meals were great, leg space has improved and I enjoyed their interactive touch screen services. All in all I’d give them a 7/10 for my air travel experiences this trip – well done Air NZ.

OK so it’s a minor rant but.. Don’t you hate it when you have the right of way at an intersection and the driver of another car does not wait for you opting instead to turn the corner and deliberately look the other way? I think the psych of this being ‘If I don’t look at you then I never saw you’ – no harm, no foul. Someone did this to me today and the [...]