I used to spend time in the historic South Island town of Oamaru when my parents lived there. It's wonderful heritage buildings, coastal views and small town friendliness endeared me to it, even though I was not born there.

Novopay has had it's day!

Government should not review the need to get rid of it - this failed system needs to be scrapped now!

I was wondering what to write in regard to Sir Paul Holmes especially in the wake of his expected passing.

"What is it, this mysterious spray? Human Growth Hormone is converted in the liver to something called IGF-1, or insulin-like growth factor. “We have deer that we harvest out in New Zealand,” Key [By the way that's not John Key NZ's Prime Minister] says.

“I was so much in the zone I didn’t feel the rain,” said Josh Munn after scoring a scintillating final round of six-under par 66 and in doing so won the Lake Macquarie international amateur golf championship at Belmont in New South Wales by three shots.

Valentines Day draws near.

President Obama had the good fortune to be able to do his inauguration twice. The first came on Sunday when he was officially sworn in. The second time was on Monday at the U.S. Capitol building where he repeated his vows to the American people a second time.

 I'm a bit surprised by today's Cabine reshuffle news.

Gareth Morgan has floated his latest environmentally friendly idea - ban and kill all family cats. 

Yesterday, I saw a posting on FB made by a gay FB friend of mine. This posting was a link to an American website where gay criminals were on display for all to see.