Jonah’s Blog

Jonah and I have been keeping our distance from the world these past couple of weeks. He’s an old hand at this. As an indoor cat, he’s been in lockdown his whole life.  With his tuition, I’m [...]

Earlier in the year, I came up with the crazy notion of making 2019 one for “remarkable experiences”. Things certainly turned out that way. Thank heavens Jonah was on hand to run my personal and [...]

My son was saved from his grief by a small black kitten When our son, Rob, lost his older brother Sam, he was only six years old. The boys had been playing under the Hills hoist in our backyard [...]

OPINION:A New Plymouth old girl was back in town recently, speaking to a mainly female audience about something that would have equally benefited men – how to deal with life. I’m [...]

I’ve always loved New Zealand readers. When I began column writing all those years ago, they became my exacting tutors. They insisted I was better at writing about dog poo than politics. [...]

  We live in dangerous times. I must be on constant look out for Enemies. Scribbler’s no help. In fact, she makes a point of befriending my foes. Take this roaring monster, for example… Though [...]

Honestly, Scribbler’s such a slacker. First, she takes off around the world for nine weeks. Then she comes home and claims she’s TOO TIRED to write to you this month. So who has to climb into the [...]

So she rattles in the door expecting me to be all over her. Well, excuse me….. Nobody can abandon moi for two weeks and get away with it. Okay, so they procured a live-in nanny because I’d [...]

I wasn’t going to do Christmas this year. But then this Santa suit showed up.

Jonah’s Blog: I’m fed up with Scribbler hogging the limelight. It’s about time I wrote a book of my own.