Dear Colin,

Bad luck copping the $400,000 awarded against you by Justice Anne Hinton. I know Anne who’s a kindly soul with a sense of humour but understandably like all Aucklanders today, was probably a bit grumpy about the bloody lockdown excesses. Anyway, we all have our off-days.

One of Wellington’s delights/horrors, depending on your mood, is reading the Dominion-Post, copies of which are sprayed about and thus free.

The great weakness of all Labour governments is their cornucopian approach to money. This reflects their usual school-teacher, public service and the like non-commercial backgrounds.

For nigh on 35 years of televised cricket, a highly important tradition has prevailed world-wide and miraculously escaped the attention of wokists.