Reading of Yoko Ono hitting 90 brings to mind how she was indirectly responsible for what Mike Moore used to constantly tease me as my greatest ever achievement, namely the only bugger in human history who could manage to get into a fist fight in the Hiroshima Peace Museum. Protesting that it wasn’t my fault cut no ice with Mike who taunted me endlessly about it.

The press reported a drowning death, presumably a maori, off Mana Island lying just south of Kapiti Island.

As regular readers of this Blog will know I love newspapers and hugely regret their collapse in readership. By newspapers I mean in their physical form, a great deal of which content doesn’t appear on their web-site. In particular I refer to the classified advertisements which contain endless delights.

A Stuff site heading yesterday.

“WOMEN OF INFLUENCE: DION NASH ON STEPPING AWAY AND HAVING TO COME BACK”