Recently I’ve been watching the local reality show “New Zealand’s Hottest Home Baker” which features home bakers competing for the winning title. It’s not bad television but I think the format is flawed. The Judges are respectively a professional...

What a fun couple of days it has been. On Thursday night we saw Calexico at the Pacific Blue Festival Club as part of the Arts Festival. It was great. I have to confess that, after a rather stressful and tiring working week, I was not particularly...

In the next couple of months I’m going to see: Calexico the Pixies Dr John Wilco I’m quite excited. In the second part of the year I’m probably going to have to stay at home a lot trying not to spend money.

I know I said I was swearing off bullet points but surely one every now and again can do no harm. There has been a slight lack of blogging around here recently and, I think, that is likely to continue for the foreseeable future. I’m a full time wage...

We’ve been playing Rockband recently. Rock Band, as Wikipedia tells us,” allows up to four players to simulate the performance of popular rock music songs by playing with controllers modeled after musical instruments. Players can play the lead guitar,...