Tag: Allan Dick

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

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.

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.

 Read more of Allan's blog entries by clicking here. For the past 12 hours I have ...

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

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

Paul Holmes created for himself a broadcasting and communicating legend the likes of which this country had never seen and which, because of changes in media technology, we'll never see again.

I think it was about 1970 or so when I saw my first piece of Waitangi Treaty graffiti. It was on the side of a farm building alongside SH1 just south of Dunedin.

Allan Dick after heart surgery

It seems that one of the most intensely discussed items on the national agenda in the past month has been the changes to the give way rules.