It's hard typing with Annie cat on my lap demanding attention...... It was the winter solstice yesterday in the Southern Hemisphere ...

Even where we live in NZ, we get sometimes light winter frosts first thing in the morning.  Before readers who get REAL winters tell me to h...

The Bee's Knees Blame it on a combination of discus throwing as a school athlete and competitive sailing later on in life but my 68 ye...

It's been an amazing summer for riding in NZ.  Relatively little rain, long hot days..... just about perfect.  Where we live on the Coro...

As regular readers of this blog know, I joined the NZ branch of the Institute of Advanced Motorists in April 2011. The trigger for this was...

A provocative title for the post but nonetheless accurate in terms of leaving it until I was 68 years old before doing my first ever track d...