Oh, no. It’s the 2004 Food Show. Unlike last year, where I showed great restraint, this year I had but one goal: To get my money’s worth for the $15 entry fee. Oh dear. I did all the things I’d vowed not to do. I picked up toothpicks and speared them in cheese cubes. I [...]
As part of my bathroom’s mini extreme makeover, I went to the paint shop to buy some paint for my bathroom shelves. I had a rough idea of what colour I wanted, a sort of browny creamy goldy colour. But then I saw a colour on the paint chart and decided that I had to [...]
I’m giving my bathroom a mini extreme makeover. Actually, it’s probably more accurate to say that I am cleaning it, but given the prior state of it, I need to jazz things up a bit to make the exercise tolerable. After the bathroom ceiling leaked a few months ago, all this mould started growing on [...]
1. One of the full-timers at work is moving to another department and I’ve been offered (and have accepted) that position. So from sometime in early August I’ll be doing the ol’ 40-hour week. It still won’t be nine to five, though. Oh, no. Some weeks I’ll have to start work at 7am. And won’t [...]
The big question is, what the dilly-o did I do with that $20 I found on the street? I took it to a bank and had it split into four $5 notes, and this is what happened to each one. I bought a Lotto ticket. I got a $5 lucky dip, and it occurred to [...]
I made an investigative visit to the new Foodtown on Quay Street tonight. It’s the “Auckland City” store, so I suspect it’s got a bit of the old flagship status, showing the world the might of the Foodtang. Within moments of entering the store I realised that this Foodtown was being everything to everyone. Nearby [...]
A few days ago, as I was arriving at the gym, I saw New Zealand’s Most Glamourous Ex-Coma Patient leaving. I suspect she may have been visiting the physiotherapist located inside the gym complex. It’s strange. From the neck down she has a sort of fabulous thinness that, realistically, only 14-year-old girls can achieve with [...]