The world premiere in Wellington of the first Hobbit movie, An Unexpected Journey , is just a few days away now and excitement is bu...

Well, I don't want to go to Istanbul now, not since James Bond broke all the tiles by riding someone's motorbike over the roofs of...

Now of these two volcanoes, which would you pick as being the most troublesome this year, in terms of eruptions, ash clouds, sulphurous fu...

The Year of Getting Rid of Stuff has not been the smoothly continuous event that I originally intended, but today I tackled the garage and...

When I'm in a new country, I always like to get a photo of their flag. No real reason, except to help me remember it, and it's fun...

Random connections today: out of nowhere, a What's On in Macau in November promotion arrived in the post, personally addressed. Amon...

Yay, for once when there's something interesting happening in the sky, Auckland laid on a clear blue one - well, mostly, and even when...