Peter Matthews

Stopped at the kerb by a Bentley

Limericks • 2026-02-22

This happened today!

Excuse me!

Thoughts • 2026-02-22

I was riding my bike into Cambridge today, on my way to work, passing the Queen Vic Chippy and the No.1 Motels building, when I was flagged down by an elderly couple.

Howzat?

Thoughts • 2026-02-22

One of my childhood memories is when I was at St. Piran's Prep School

No Cricket Today

Thoughts • 2026-02-21

It's no secret that I was treated for two kinds of malignant cancer in 2024 and 2025.

The motivation of whalers

Limericks • 2026-02-09

Here's another Limerick

Cambridge style

Columns • 2026-01-31

Sitting in my office in Cambridge last Thursday,

Just in time?

Columns • 2025-08-13

Why do today what you can put off till tomorrow?

Typical!

Columns • 2025-08-06

A stereotype is typically an over-generalised view

The ubiquitous earpiece

Columns • 2025-07-30

It seems that everywhere one looks one will see little white dots in people's ears.

Spectrum of information

Columns • 2025-07-23

I was surprised to learn, not long ago, that my wife, and all my children consider me to be 'on the spectrum'.

The bard and the maiden

Columns • 2025-07-16

A funny thing happened today, at the Cambridge Farmer's Market.

You've got to have a plan

Columns • 2025-07-09

Well actually, I've lived most of my life without one; turned up in NZ for the first time in 1980, and apart from a few trips home, have been here ever since.

Traffic Flow in Cambridge

Columns • 2025-07-03

In 2017 Cambridge got a new roundabout, courtesy of the NZTA, at the intersection of Hamilton Road and Victoria Street, next to St Andrews Church.

The perils of the morning walk

Columns • 2025-06-26

I went to the doctor last week and she prescribed Escitalopram - an anti-depressant.

Panic at the Vatican

Limericks • 2025-06-23

There was a gay cardinal, love

Austerity, Verity

Limericks • 2025-06-23

There was an old lady called Verity

The plump priest

Limericks • 2025-06-23

There was a plump priest at the Vatican

Intrepid Antarctic Explorer

Limericks • 2025-05-21

An intrepid Antarctic explorer

Grocer Ricardo

Limericks • 2025-05-20

There was a young grocer, Ricardo

Now I have cancer

Cancer • 2024-04-27

As I write these words today I have prostate cancer. T3 N1 to be precise.