Ask anyone to name the most famous ten buildings in the world and dollars will get you donuts that at least half will name the Sagrada Familia, especially if they are fans of great design. Once complete it will be one of the largest churches in the world at 90m x 45m but it is […]
I doubt anyone will argue this point: those four or so long weeks of Lockdown Level 4 were hard slog for us all. Being stuck inside with no visitation rights for the corner pub, a mate’s house or even the local beach was, shall we say; “not ideal”. Anyway, pacing about angrily like a wild […]
Utter the syllables; “Piña Colada” and, if you’re like me, you will immediately sink back onto your bar stool like it was a deckchair on the sun-drenched balcony of some luxury island resort overlooking the azure waters of a tropical lagoon. Such is the power of pleasant memories, Tom Cruise movies and cheesy-yet-iconic Rupert Holmes […]
A ninjutsu black belt-wearing friend once said, with more than a hint of desperation in his voice, as he assumed a prostrate position on the floor for the umpteenth time, “You know, I can’t wait for push-ups to become obsolete – or at least be regarded as bad for you!” Sorry, dude. No such luck. […]
You can never have too much of a good thing! This is great news as Yamaha have released their 2021 WaveRunner range and it’s available NOW in NZ. What’s more, most of the range is all-new with the GP Series race-inspired models and VX Series recreation models having had major feature and design upgrades. Plus, […]
Okay, so we all know the image by now: a lone dark figure struggling through heavy snow, crystals of cold flecking his mane of hair, beard and fur cape. He is obviously an alien to this environment – a fact starkly highlighted by his darkness against the bleached white background. Yet the man also appears […]
On a steamy frangipani-scented September night in 1979, thousands of excited Samoans packed into Apia Park. They’d come to watch the burly Fanene Peter Maivia clamber into the ring with the equally stolid and peroxide-haired Harley Race. For the next hour, these two massive tree trunk-like wrestlers battered each other into submission in time to […]
Trees. For many of us they are those irritating things that block out the sun, harbour noisy birds and have roots that create havoc with our drainage systems. It seems like only yesterday that our years of badgering lawmakers finally got them to relinquish their authoritarian control of the vegetation in our backyards enough to […]
So, Justin Timberlake has written a book; Hindsight & All the Things I Can’t See In Front of Me. Wow! Yet another celebrity kiss and tell featuring ruminations of a spoiled brat’s cash, girls and party-soaked life. Taking time out to read this epistle is going straight onto my “To Do” list – somewhere between […]
Yamaha’s WaveRunner engineers have been busy, constantly improving what is already a world-renowned championship winning platform. With the GP1800R racecraft, they’re striving for ever greater speed, performance and mobility. The all-new race-ready supercharged 2021 GP1800R SVHO and normally-aspirated GP1800R HO are the results of their endeavours and, after Yamaha’s recent race domination, it’s little wonder […]
Whilst the subject of depression never really goes away, it has certainly bubbled to the surface lately with the recent quick-fire suicides of high-profile people such as TV superchef Anthony Bourdain and world famous designer Kate Spade. What makes depression hard to understand for most of us is that these were successful people who seemed […]
So, a high-powered panel of female leaders featuring Theresa Gattung, Justine Smyth, Tracey Cross, Naomi Ballantyne and Linda Meade were at the M2woman Journey to Excellence forum recently. I think it’s fair to say that the gist of their forum was; “we want moregender equality in the workplace! Now, dammit! Now!” Huh? Is this really […]
