www.alleycatphotos.com/book.htm (scroll down and click on `Open Book' at the bottom of the screen) I came across this site and it really made me think how cruel humans are, how uncaring towards the waifs and strays that increasingly wander the streets, unloved and uncared for. What sort of life do...

A father will always be his daughter's first love, the man by whom all others will be measured against. It is hard to accept the finality of death. When a parent dies, you lose a part of your past forever. It's a hard journey to take. When someone dies, society allows us a few days out of our...

Weather forecast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning - George Carlin US comedian and actor (1937 - 2008)   Why are we so obsessed with the weather? We can't do anything about it. It's going to happen, no matter what. Yet it is one of the...

We don't often attempt things unless we have a fairly good idea we will succeed, do we? Why is this? Fear of looking dumb if we get it wrong? But life is all about making mistakes, learning from them, and then picking yourself up and having another go, using what we have learned previously to...

Well I enjoyed Masterton - nice to have a change every now and then. Solway Park is a nice hotel - good service, nice rooms, good food. The speaker at the conference was very motivational - made me think. Perhaps its time to make some changes in my life.

I head off to the Wairarapa tomorrow for work for a night - haven't been there for a while. Should be a bit of a laugh. I unzipped the suitcase I am going to use and found Dad's glasses in there. Promply burst into tears. It was unexpected pain and pleasure finding them. One: wishing he was still...

Sometimes things are just harder than usual. I wish that life could be simple and easy. No stress. It's all been so stressful for the past few years, I just want to slip away to a private tropical island, no-one there except friends and family, and just relax. No money worries, no job worries, just...

I took a solar-powered rainbow flower up to Akatarawa Cemetery late this afternoon. It is powered by a rechargable battery - during the day it charges up from the sunlight, then at dusk it automatically comes on, changing colours constantly overnight until dawn. Something to mark where you are at...

Well Dad, you would have been stoked tonight watching the All Blacks beat the Wallabies in the first Bledisloe Cup game of 2009 - final score was 22-16. The Wallabies will be keen to atone for their narrow loss in the 2008 Bledisloe Cup and bring the cup back to their home soil, but the mighty All...

Do you know, if I was asked a couple of years ago what the hardest thing I would ever have to do would be, I would never even have thought of this? Meeting with the monumental stonemason to decide on what my father's headstone wouldn't even have been on the list, because I just somehow could never...