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Lindsey Dawson on sticky summer pleasures.

I was shocked recently to come across a website that could calculate for me in a second how many days I've been alive. For me, it's more than 23 thousand days.

The 'Trillion Dollar Bailout Ride'. I wore shoes like this when I was about 18. I remember red ones with a bow on the front, just like this sketch of mine.

This will be a short editorial because I have swine flu. Well, I probably have a cold, in fact, but I figure the self-diagnosis of swine flu will get me more sympathy.

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Instant Millionaires, David Bain, Simon & Garfunkel, MIcrowaves, Eels and much more.

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m not sure who said that; maybe it was Roger Douglas, back in the days when he meant something to the nation? Here are some of my random thoughts and observations over the past weeks or so.

Sunday Morning Blues - I did something this morning I knew I would regret...

It's 9:30 on a Monday morning and I am sitting in the sunroom of the new Chez Dick, high on South Hill in Oamaru. Below me, wearing a garment of light early morning mist and smoke, the town stretches to the north.