Month: July 2011

Net invaluable in winter whiteout

Winter snow

(This is the Online column, written for The Southland Times) That lovely wee polar blast that blew through town early this week was certainly a shock to the system. No matter what it’s doing, we all like to talk about…

Winter. Cough.

It’s cold, snowy and I’m still recovering from whatever lurgie it was that got me a couple of weeks ago. The snow’s been a bit startling, hasn’t it? Norman has been enjoying it, running around like a maniac as her…

We have a bed!

BigSave have given up on waiting for the manufacturer to get it right and have given us a base to go with the be we bought so FINALLY, we have a bed. A usable bed. They’ve also had the side…

Look beyond the sperm-like costumes!

This video features Voca People, an Israel-based ensemble that combines a cappella and beat box vocals to reproduce the sounds of an entire orchestra. Don’t be put off by the fact that they all appear to dress as sperm.

Tuned in to the weather

(This is the Online column, written for The Southland Times) I suppose I should get the obvious conversation-starter out of the way now by saying ‘how about this interesting wee spell of weather we’re having at the moment”. I was…

Battle of the social sites begins

(This is the Online column, written for The Southland Times)   A few years ago, the internet was all about email, chatrooms and pornography sites, but as the younger generation infiltrates the web, that focus has moved to social networking.…