Roger Parkinson
We got back from hols and, as you do, turned on the espresso machine. Bang!
What? Turned it off then back on. Nothing. But...
Here I am listening to a radio broadcast of a panel discussion between several political candidates in our impending general e...
One Law for All. It’s a good slogan and, like Motherhood and apple pie, pretty difficult to object to. Some of our politic...
I live in the woods, so getting the internet here is not as obvious as it is to most of you. I few months back when I real...
This story from the Guardian came at me from multiple people who +1’d it or tweeted it or whatever. It’s good,feels true e...
Ash Wednesday has just come and gone again this year. It is one of those things that us Anglicans have a mixed commitment...
This morning we saw an interesting catch by a traffic cop. It’s a long weekend here and there are lots of cops around. Just sout...
I’m reading a book just now, or trying to. When I say a ‘book’ I mean a book made of paper, not an eBook. This is the kind...
This is a picture of the Upper Tama Lake near Mt Ruapehu which is in the middle of the North Island of New Zealand.
I...
If you haven’t seen it, ‘The Waters of Mars’ is an episode of Dr Who in which some alarming things are discovered about...