"Movember" is coming up again and again I'm on a bit of a personal crusade, not for what Movember represents - how could I be? - but their modus operandi.
Tag: Allan Dick
Thoughts in the Margin
From weather in Auckland to politics in Fiji, read Allan Dick's latest column here.
Kate the Dog Who Thought She Was Human
On a Saturday afternoon, a little over 11 years ago I was at a loose end and visited Victoria Park Market in Auckland. My life had changed.
Beauty and the Dogs
Read more of Allan's blog entries by clicking here. I feel like I’m back at school ...
Agentina In Three Days
I went to Argentina last week - now that's something I never thought I would write.
Where Is The Tree?
This is being written just hours before the wrappers come off the plan that will amalgamate the various councils in greater Auckland into a single unit - the so-called "Super-City".
Allan Dick – Peter Bethune: Saving the Whales While We Do Nothing
I can't believe what I heard on Kerre Woodham's radio show last night. Caller after caller, as well as the host herself, all putting the verbal boot into Peter Bethune, the New Zealand anti-whaling protester.
I Am Still Alive
There is a very real possibility that before I get this column completed, the 30-second-attention-span New Zealand news media will have found something else, other than Shane Jones, to go into a state of terminal hysteria over
I’ve Been Thinking. . .
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.
Oamaru: Under Valued
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.