I’d forgive you for thinking I’d flunked my writing challenge so I’d better get my excuses in early. Since “busy-busy†is my middle name with a trip on the horizon, a temporary publishing interruption of my jottings online was inevitable. I have,... For the last month I’ve been studying food writing on a Saturday with David Burton who writes restaurant reviews for the Dominion Post, Cuisine Magazine and has a wealth of food books under his belt. He also has a library of about 1,500 food and cookbooks, a tiny... Wellington is turning all sultry and subtle this weekend with the now annual jazz festival in town. Jazz greats are visiting and local jazz artists are strutting their stuff in full concerts and short recitals. We had third row seats to see Joshua Redman and his... All of a sudden the days are rushing by in a countdown to my visit to the UK in a week’s time. I am on the downward slope to putting my posterior down for a 26 hour stretch. Right now I can see nothing but that being a blissful experience of rest and relaxation. I... Turns out asking someone what books they read is akin to asking what kind of underwear they prefer. Or at least it was with a group of people attending a workshop I led a couple of weeks ago. I was shocked at how a seemingly innocuous ice-breaker question could have... 