As a parent I know I have a responsibility to protect my child (not that he’s a child any more … he’s a fully fledged, hairy young man). When he was just a wee fella, my most important mission in life was to ensure he was happy and healthy. But, as is often the […]
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(This is the Online column, written for The Southland Times) The wee meltdown that meant our lovely newspaper wasn’t published on Tuesday shows how damaging technology can be when it decides to have a bad day. The whole frustrating situation showed both sides of technology: the agonising epic failure of no printed newspaper on one
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Remember Michael Jackson’s Thriller? This week’s video is a cat perfecting its dance steps:
DRILL PRESS: A tall upright machine useful for suddenly snatching flat metal bar stock out of your hands so that it smacks you in the chest and flings your beer across the room, splattering it against that freshly-stained heirloom piece you were drying. WIRE WHEEL: Cleans paint off bolts and then throws them somewhere under
(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 the weather: it’s too hot (yes, it does happen), it’s too cold, too windy, too
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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 wee furry feet disappear into the piles of white stuff. And every time she flits
