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Rural Ruminations
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Football. We've arrived!
Friday, 18 June 2010
Life is fickle. Remember that. In the 50th minute a Slovakian goal pushed us into second-place for the game.
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Smoke signals working?
Friday, 21 May 2010
G’day. When the Government announced that it was spending 1.5 billion smackeroos on Broadband between now and sometime, it actually meant it was for city folks, silly.
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May it 'Freeze Over' in Copenhagen!
Friday, 16 October 2009
I’m a Futurist from way back. The DVD-Book phenomenon called ‘The Secret’ hit town in 2006. In 2000, I was tentatively involved with a projected speaking Tour with three other go-getter Kiwis. I had outlined a book, about a ‘code of accomplishment’.
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Deadlines. They can kill yuh!
Friday, 18 September 2009
All rightee, then. Hands up those of you who were devastated when you discovered my article missing in the August issue of Rural Living (the must read for country folks with brains). Hold them up high please. Counting… OK. Altogether a total of… four people. Thanks family.
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Why doesn't anybody know!!?*!!
Friday, 14 August 2009
Just occasionally, there is a window of opportunity in your day, to pause and reflect (or to reflect and pause if you’re left-handed or right-brained) on things that may not sound very important, but are! Living in Ruralia makes you very inquisitive. Otherwise you no survive, baby!
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Excuse me, Mum. Am I a 3 Percenter?
Thursday, 23 July 2009
When I wuz first asked to write for Rural Living (OK, I wuz forced to, by an Editor person who can get anybody to do anything…), I told my friend. He is a true-blue Townie. If he doesn’t get to a café for a latté, like, real often, he will die!
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You caused a flu. You swine!
Thursday, 25 June 2009
Listen in, team. There are two key definitions for this fascinating animal…the ‘swine’. See, if you drop a letter you get, ‘wine’ and, if you drop another, you ‘win’. Are you following me closely, here? But not too close, OK. Ta.
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Loyalty? Values? Whatever!
Thursday, 21 May 2009
If you do enough lookin’, you will find that apparently, all the important decisions about everything, are made by Townies, in town. Now, just maybe, some of the decision-makers are Rurals ‘at heart’ and they want the best for country folk too. Mainly, because Rurals, provide most of the nation’s earnings…
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It’s about EarthFix, people
Monday, 27 April 2009
Say, did you know that there is a possibility of a recession thingie happening around here? It’s just that I hear of this possibility, oh, about every five minutes from every media source on the planet. And speaking of planets, let me just fix up an important concept for you. For all of us, really.
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When you've got to go, you've got to go, mate!
Monday, 16 March 2009
I have been trying to get to the bottom of the recent news, that environmentalists are pressing the makers of ultra soft toilet paper to use recycled fibre material for the product.
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Dem bones, dem dairy bones
Monday, 16 February 2009
It’s time to ‘fess up’ as they say, in the U.S.A. The collapse of the entire known Universe was mostly caused by Townies. I say ‘mostly’, because some Rurals were also involved. Shame on you, for having a hand in… the mess.
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Hey Guys! This recession thingie, is a Townie trick, right?
Monday, 19 January 2009
You don’t say ‘happy new year’ to country folk, cos, living in the rurals, is one long continuum. This is a Townie word for… without a break. You can’t say to your farm beasties, ‘We’re off on a bitofa holiday, so look after yourselves, will ya.’
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Philosophy at the Fence
Monday, 15 December 2008
You did read the wonderful article by Virin Gomber, didn’t you? Of course you did! It introduced yet another Kiwi world star, South Auckland’s Nick Liefting, who is the new World Electric Fencing Champion. But wait… there’s more.
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Silly people must not roam the Rural
Monday, 17 November 2008
In the first week of November, I resumed refereeing the Game of Touch (or Touch Rugby). It is my 23rd year refereeing it. I have kept a record of my Rugby and Touch appointments. So, in this week, I refereed my 1600th Touch game.
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Darling... start the tractor
Tuesday, 21 October 2008
Hello. Let me get a little something off my chest first. I call it a chest anyway (sob!). Many folks have the manners of a possum’s bum! Occasionally, in my articles, I offer a maverick viewpoint Paper on a topic of interest. I send a complimentary copy of it to anyone who sends me an e-thingie, requesting it.
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