I was surprised to learn, not long ago, that my wife, and all my children consider me to be 'on the spectrum'.
A funny thing happened today, at the Cambridge Farmer's Market.
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.
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.
I went to the doctor last week and she prescribed Escitalopram - an anti-depressant.
Move over Nostradamus. Here comes Peteramus Matthewsilus.
Creationism vs evolution - Christopher Hitchens (a while ago now - he died in 2011) said 'The debate is over'.
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.
I'm doing a bit of recycling. Actually I am building a boat, but bear with me.
I was on the phone with a client this week and surprise, surprise, the subject of Covid came up.
There seems to be a fair bit of anger in the community directed towards the prime minister.
Someone said to me at the weekend that the world is in a mess.
I like the idea of the pen being mightier than the sword but I guess it rather depends on whose hand wields the pen.
Lockdown is tough, more so for some than others.
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.
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?
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,
As I write, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is about to publish their latest report. I reckon it should be called
The biggest manufacturer, in the world, of plant based meat is called Beyond Meat. The founder of Beyond Meat is called Ethan Brown,
Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos have both recently returned from the edge of space.