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The Keyboard to education
link: A Different Light – 20 April 2019 My typing is slow. Glacial, in fact. I use one finger and occasionally a thumb. Luckily, I have a PA who does…
by JonnyApr 29 No comments -
Sleep is hard to find on these balmy, balmy nights
A different Light – 6 April 2019 The past month is likely to be one of the warmest March months on record in New Zealand according to Niwa. When March came…
by JonnyApr 11 No comments -
Pray, Love, Forgive
The sheer enormity and horror of the massacre last Friday kept growing by the hour. It was hard to get your head around. It still is. Fifty people (at the…
by JonnyMar 23 No comments -
Love is a four-legged word
A Different Light – 9 March 2019 Heck! That’s pretty impressive, I think as I eye our two dogs. They are tiny. They are hairy. They bark a lot. Are…
by Pip NewmanMar 9 No comments -
9 February 2019
A Different Light – A Spoon Full of Sugar I got feedback on social media on my last column to the effect “actually please can you start writing about Disabilities…
by JonnyFeb 9 No comments -
Hard to be bad when you’re known
A different Light – 26 January 2019 A Different Light – 26 January 2019 As I was careering down Bank Street the other day on my mobility scooter, wearing a…
by JonnyJan 30 No comments -
22 December 2018
“Virtual medal” A different Light 22 December 2018 I always seem to get off lightly when it comes to Christmas shopping, thank god. My wife does most of the heavy lifting,…
by JonnyDec 22 No comments -
Roll Playing
A different Light – 15 September 2018 ‘A lot of work to be done on wheelchair accessibility – Carmel Sepuloni’, hardly a bowel shattering revelation, but believe it or not,…
by JonnySep 15 No comments -
1 September 2018
Making it Work Sitting in the Invercargill airport, I kept on wondering why people were giving me stranger looks than normal. Oh then I remembered it might be the bloody…
by JonnySep 1 No comments -
18 August 2018
SPEECH MARKS A different Light – 18 August You have got to know when to hold them, know when to fold them, and know when to bugger off…
by JonnyAug 18 No comments -
4 August 2018
“Get a life – you’re not on the Titanic” was one of the harsher comments from a Facebook friend in response to my last column on my neck. “Thanks Kim!”…
by JonnyAug 4 No comments -
21 July 2018
A different Light final- 21 July 2018 I’m in training. I have an event looming on the horizon. I need to be in tip top shape, a lean mean vice-free…
by JonnyJul 21 No comments
