My birthday present from Liz this week was something I’ve been intrigued with for some time, but lacked real justification for buying: a car GPS unit. It’s a Garmin Nüvi that works in the car and can be carried on foot as well. So far it hasn’t been needed for guidance to unknown [...]
Entries from January 2009
Wednesday, 28 January, 2009
When I’m sixty-four
When I get older, losing my hair
Many years from now
Will you still be sending me a valentine
Birthday greetings, bottle of wine?
It was going to be ‘many years from now’ when I first played this Beatles song at gigs in 1967, but the future snuck up on me. Rudely. I hit 64 this week and of [...]
Saturday, 24 January, 2009
Hot day in the Wairarapa
So hot this morning that the nicest place to be was in the car with the air conditioning on. So we went up to Masterton to visit Dick Smith Electronics, Aratoi Gallery and the Farmers’ Market.
It was spectacular morning. Not a cloud in the sky, no haze at all – clear as a bell to [...]
Sunday, 18 January, 2009
Furry interloper
We’re being taken over in our Martinborough cottage by a young cat that started visiting us nervously in the garden a few weeks ago. Now it comes inside and thinks it owns us. Though it looks cared for, it now wants to spend all the weekends with us, begging furiously for food. It’s a dead-ringer [...]
Sunday, 18 January, 2009
Naturally neon
Sometimes it’s good to let vegetables go to seed. They’re no longer edible, but they can be more interesting. I’m not a huge fan for artichokes, which we grew for the first time this year. Liz likes them, but I think they’re at their best when completely inedible, rather than just partly inedible. I do [...]
