So we have a new government. Democracy in action, messy, imperfect, but it still beats all the alternatives (except for me being Dictator of the World!).
We now have openly gay and lesbian MPs all across the Parliament, from the Greens to National. Not quite every party, but all the biggest ones. Even our Attorney-General, a […]

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We call them, only half-jokingly, our “fur children” . Dogs, cats, whatever pet we have, they enrich our lives.
When I was recuperating from being at death’s door in the mid 90s, one of my brothers bought a puppy, much to his wife’s horror, with 2 kids under 5 at the time, so I ended up […]

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