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Barry McQueen

Posted on January 21, 2012 by admin

I got an email from Mark Jensen at The Mag telling me that our friend and colleague Barry McQueen had died aged 50. Wifey and I met Barry twenty something years ago when he was working behind the bar at … Continue reading →

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Dark Narnia (5.1.12)

Posted on January 5, 2012 by admin

Wifey and I emerged blinking into the bright New Zealand sunshine like we had just stumbled out of the Wardrobe that is the gateway to Narnia in The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe. We checked the time; 11 o’clock … Continue reading →

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Reassure Me (1.1.12)

Posted on December 31, 2011 by admin

For those of you not paying attention the Furious World Tour started in June heading South East out of Newcastle and stumbling through North, Central and South America, on to Australia then back on itself to New Zealand. We have … Continue reading →

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Sure to Let me Go Home 7.12.11

Posted on December 7, 2011 by admin

With the world on the brink of financial collapse, riots in the streets, bombs and dip-shit politicians defending the same corrupt markets that have betrayed their own people, living in New Zealand feels a bit like hiding under the bed. … Continue reading →

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Gary Speed, Always Outnumbered Never Outgunned

Posted on November 28, 2011 by admin

Some people’s deaths are met with an intensifying of affection, a sharpening in the realisation of how important and special they were. Gary Speed was such a straightforward professional footballer that he could easily slip the mind when listing your … Continue reading →

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St James’ Park: A Rose By Any Other Name?

Posted on November 24, 2011 by admin

The Bay of Islands is north of Auckland in New Zealand and is an area of extraordinary beauty. We were camping (yes camping, it has come to such a thing) in an effort to save our poor battered and swiftly … Continue reading →

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Don’t Know You’re Born 5.11.11

Posted on November 5, 2011 by admin

You have no idea how spoiled you have become in your luxury 21st Century digital playground. Yes you there too busy worrying about your job, house, family and the fact that greedy idiots are bollocksing up the planet. You don’t … Continue reading →

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HEGPNUFAK

Posted on October 26, 2011 by admin

We have spent two weeks in Kaikoura which is on the east coast of the Southern Island of New Zealand. A two hour drive north from poor earthquake battered Christchurch, it is a place that has haunted our waking dreams … Continue reading →

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Get Out Of Our Garden

Posted on October 19, 2011 by admin

Nobody likes a bully but special contempt should be kept for the bully’s mate. The snivelling little shithouse who stands behind the bully shaking his fist at you and making snidy comments. At school they were miserable cowards prepared to … Continue reading →

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Football. Australian Rules.

Posted on October 14, 2011 by admin

I’ve been working in Australia for the last three weeks. I haven’t got a visa to work and it’s awful tough to get one when you’re my age so I could be concerned that Julia Gillard, the nice Welsh ginger … Continue reading →

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