Peter Matthews

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.

TRUS Biopsy

Cancer • 2024-04-04

I had been dreading this appointment ever since it was first arranged.

The First Appointment with The Urologist

Cancer • 2024-03-22

One of the common aspects of the many consultations Nikki and I have attended in the past couple of months is that we go in with the expectation of coming out with more certainty than when we went in.

A Phone Call From A Surgeon

Cancer • 2024-03-20

The next evening I was surprised to receive a phone call from RF.

Ultrasound Scan

Cancer • 2024-03-19

The first appointment after that initial visit to the GP was an ultrasound scan of the lump in my groin.

The First Visit to the Doctor

Cancer • 2024-03-12

I waited until the day before the appointment before I told Nikki.

How It Started

Cancer • 2024-03-10

One day in February 2024 my wife Nikki felt a small lump at the top of my left leg.

Plugging in to the future

Columns • 2022-02-22

Move over Nostradamus. Here comes Peteramus Matthewsilus.

Inconvenient truths...

Columns • 2022-01-18

Creationism vs evolution - Christopher Hitchens (a while ago now - he died in 2011) said 'The debate is over'.

Valuing our resources

Columns • 2021-11-30

I wrote, a couple of weeks ago, of my boatbuilding escapades and the large Kauri beams which sit on the floor of my garage pending incorporation into the structure of the boat.

A new life for my kauri

Columns • 2021-11-16

I'm doing a bit of recycling. Actually I am building a boat, but bear with me.

Fact mimics fiction

Columns • 2021-10-19

I was on the phone with a client this week and surprise, surprise, the subject of Covid came up.

Vax and fiction

Columns • 2021-10-05

There seems to be a fair bit of anger in the community directed towards the prime minister.

Yesterday when I was young

Columns • 2021-09-21

Someone said to me at the weekend that the world is in a mess.

Seeing the whole of the moon

Columns • 2021-09-14

I like the idea of the pen being mightier than the sword but I guess it rather depends on whose hand wields the pen.

How people cope

Columns • 2021-09-07

Lockdown is tough, more so for some than others.

Examining the waste

Columns • 2021-08-31

Having developed, in recent years, a desire to be a better global citizen, less wasteful and more caring for the planet on whose surface we scrabble, I was particularly struck by a recent event.

Follow the guidelines

Columns • 2021-08-24

Here we are again. Whilst none of us are, I'm sure, entirely happy about it, can we at least agree that it is necessary? I mean, what's the alternative?

Our changing world

Columns • 2021-08-17

It seems trite to moan about recycling soft plastics in Cambridge NZ when across the world people are dealing with such crises as the earthquake in Haiti, unprecedented rainfall and flooding in Japan,