2,300 students plus 100 or so staff, 8 minutes 59 seconds: not bad, given the size of the school grounds. The Fire Department should be ha...

No. No, I didn't. It would have been a rather pleasant end to a sunny day that began with two stories in the Herald and continued wi...

Fastest raffle win ever, yesterday: tickets bought from cute little Sea Scouts outside dairy, walk home, phone rings, "You've won!...

   There was a Taste of France evening at our local fancy supermarket tonight, and they did a pretty good job. Not only were there a surp...

New royal baby - pft. Today's real big event was my being clawed by a tui - that's the thanks I get for going to all the troub...

Ah, people died in China's earthquake today, but they didn't make the TV news: the swarm of quakes in Cook Strait that have rattle...

It's been quite a week for connections, most of them, alas, negative. For a start there was, sadly, nice young Cory Monteith dying at ...