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Mind the Gap Trap
A Different Light- 1 June 2019 “Mind the gap. Mind the gap.” This repeated announcement in the London underground tube stations is to warn the vague, the unsteady and the…
by JonnyJun 1 No comments -
Being there
A Different Light – 18 May 2019 There is much anticipation around Finance Minister Robertson’s first budget. There are stakeholders lined up putting pressure on the government to get their…
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So Far So Close
A different Light – 4 May 2019 She was only here for five nights. The last time I saw her was in January on the Gold Coast. I’m one of…
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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 -
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…
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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…
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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…
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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
