My company has a valued relationship with Bayleys Commercial, going back to its roots in 1990. Indeed I paid a critical role in their establishment but that’s another highly amusing story.

When after six enjoyable decades of writing weekly and monthly newspaper and magazine columns I finally wearied of the obligation, my eldest son Chris suggested I write a Blog. That was six years ago and the appeal lay in the briefness of the entries compared with a newspaper column, plus their spasmodic nature, I only banging something up if in the mood or wanting to say it.

I was delighted to read of his Grace’s acquittal on bogus charges. But I’d be even more elated if the good Bishop would don appropriate ball-gown bishoppy robes.

In an editorial on Armistice day, the New Zealand Herald wrote the following nonsense.

Lying mid-point between a 1600 kilometers long nation, Wellington is the obvious location for New Zealand’s capital.