So, our car was stolen last week. Evaporated into thin air in the middle of a nice afternoon, parked on the street one moment, gone the next...

…So long time, no post. As the last entry probably indicated , it’s been a rather rough year for us. We’re dealing with everything that’s ha...

My father-in-law Sir Peter Siddell died peacefully Monday, nearly three years after being diagnosed with an incurable brain tumor , and nea...

"Max Taming The Furies," Sylvia Siddell , circa 1999 ...My mother-in-law, and a wife, mother, grandmother, artist. She will b...

It's kind of embarrassing to admit but my game of choice on my fancy new hi-tech iPhone 4 hasn't been some flashy God of War type d...

How's this for making us '80s kids feel old -- 2011 is only four years away from the hoverboarding world of 2015 "Back To The...

I held a can of Pepsi the other day and was staring at it for quite a while, because that's the sort of thing I do. I've drank a ...

So I haven't been writing as much lately, as I've been running for my life. Well, walking really rather fast. We finally bit the bul...

Ah, it's Queen's Birthday weekend. Yes, that's right, I'm officially a subject of Her Majesty (a factoid which never fails t...

• Winter, which is like all of two days old already. • New comic books shooting up from US$2.99 to US$3.99 in price. Yeah, that'll hel...

Late December and January are a weird time in New Zealand. After four Christmases here, I'm pretty much used to the whole "Christma...

The years, they whiz by like lightning now. It was just about exactly three years ago that we were in transit – arriving in New Zealand to ...

• Finally finishing the 2-year project of painting pretty much every room in our house by painstakingly turning the mottled jaundice yellow ...

When I think about it, the fact my wife and I got together at all is kinda remarkable. I was a long-haired college student in Oxford, Missis...

So it's school holidays this week and on my turn, I took Peter for some daddy bonding with "Ice Age 3 in 3-D". I hadn't s...

Oh my God. Weird Al Yankovic's magnum opus movie "UHF" is 20 years old this year. It's just the trigger, really. I keep ...

It must be the winter blues.... Random notes: ...So anyway last weekend I got into my first New Zealand car accident , thanks to a teenager ...

...I haven't written a lot the last few months about my father-in-law , who some might remember took ill back around Christmas . Since t...

OK, well, my father-in-law had surgery yesterday to remove as much of the brain tumour as possible, and it went well enough -- he's ali...

...It's been a bad week, and while I like to refrain from getting too personal and confessional on this blog, I do need to at least take...