Archives for November 2006

Chocolate’s health benefits

For most of my adult life, until about 15 years ago I ate chocolate, lots of chocolate. I carried chocolate with me and would eat it, perhaps in the way others smoke. I truly was addicted (and almost certainly still am). Then I started hanging out with someone who told me about giving up smoking […]

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Icebergs afloat A flotilla of about one hundred…

Apparently we have icebergs headed our way: Icebergs ahead: A flotilla of about one hundred icebergs has been sighted about 260 kilometres from the lower South Island. The largest iceberg is about two kilometres long and 120 metres high. Niwa scientists believe they are remnants of A-43, a 167 kilometre long superberg that broke off […]

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Wellington X*Air in February

I don’t generally actually go along to the X*Air games in Wellington, but have sometimes seen bits and pieces. It features amazing feats of skating and bike riding, together with massive crowds. Wellington’s waterfront will again host the Southern Hemisphere’s largest extreme sports and music festival, Vodafone X*Air. Next year’s event will be held … […]

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From nights gone by

I’d forgotten about the ‘Goodnight Kiwi‘, the animation that used to play when TV 2 stopped broadcasting each night at about midnight. And I’m not sure if the good old milk bottle still exists anywhere in New Zealand either. The days seem long past when TV wasn’t 24 hours a day, when there were only […]

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Blown up, out of all proportion

A very long time ago a chap in England tried to blow up the Parliament — Guy Fawkes failed and since then it’s been routine to burn wads of cash every 5 November in the form of gunpowder and other explosives. Remember, remember, the 5th of November The Gunpowder Treason and plot; As a kid […]

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Seafood Stocks Running Out, Says Study

I was surprised the other day to read this news item: Seafood Stocks Running Out, Says Study: There will be virtually nothing left to fish from the seas by the middle of the century if current trends continue, according to a major scientific study. Stocks have collapsed in nearly one-third of sea fisheries, and the […]

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Any old day

In my head I know I’m 34; my birth certificate proves I’m 51; but when I woke today I just felt old. Several nights of broken sleep and a run of low energy days have left me feeling haggard and jaded. It’s not as though I even have an excuse: I don’t smoke, drink, do […]

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