Going through my files I came across a letter dating back to last December which will brighten your days in these gloomy times.

I tuned in and lasted 5 minutes.

Stuff reports Jonah Lomu’s widow Nadine has written to the New Zealand Film Commission demanding they “cease and desist” (her words – either cease or desist would have been adequate) their making of a documentary film on Lomu. This she claimed breached her intellectual property rights re her late husband.

My company has always had a valued very close relationship with Bayleys, now deservedly the nation’s largest commercial real estate agency. Over the years they’ve sold us hundreds of millions of dollars of buildings. But from time to time on this Blog I take the mickey about their weird practice of writing meaningless gibberish in their printed material.

The degradation of university degrees over my life-time, is tragic. Readers familiar with my novel of 20 years back, “Degrees For Everyone” will understand. Consider this.