- Is Christopher Luxon a liar or deluded?
- A Dollar In My Pocket
- Beware Tiredness Lives Here
- Beware Here There Be Idiots
- Moral dilemmas,
- Hamlet, Really? Yes!
- Gloriavale (Not all Heroes wear a Cape)
- Teen Angst to 60 Year Old Satisfaction (Almost)
- Scribo Ergo Cogito (I think therefore I write)
- I’m Tired (its the human condition)
- Life Is Tough Sometimes.
- A Letter to my Sons
- A Letter To My Daughters
- I love Fish
- Spirituality?
- K is for Kat
- Shooting the Breeze
- His name is Reuben
- Hardship Grants, A Rort?
- One One, Two Two, Three Three, Shit, Fuck!
- I went to Church
- Kua hinga he totara i te wao nui a Tane.
- Living With A Traumatic Head Injury
- Children don’t invent racism, they learn it.
- WALK A MILE
- Tamaki Should be Charged
- For Stealing You get Locked Up Long Time For killing that’s not so bad.
- “Beggars can’t be choosers,” Why Food Banks are not the answer.
- PRISON BREAK
- Perhaps I am Radio Rental
- The Economy of Death Innocence Lost?
- Let’s end the LockDown because of Cost
- POTENTIALLY OFFENSIVE POST
- A Hundy In My Pocket
- The Truth Never Wins A Popularity Competition
- Shite dressed up fancy is still shite
- Am I Radio Rental?
- Sometimes When My Sister Talks I Hear My Mum Come Out.
- What’s Brown and Sticky?
- NZTA Victory for the Community
- Matamata-Piako mayor says ‘sexism’ is at play in local body election.
- Life Styles, Opportunities, Home Matamata-Piako District
- The Dwarf who moved
- Aphasia, unable to speak.
- Dead Man’s Shoes
- Men who kill.
- Get Away From My Kids
- What is your best relationship advice?
- Saying Goodbye
- Shall I comment?
- Housing First
- Too Thick To Drink and Too Thin To Plow
- I’m a Little Bit Country
- Beware Fat Boy on a Bike
- Warning this blog is about Cancer, it may be hurtful to some people. Stupid Cancer
- Just be kinder. Be respectful. Be honest.
- To All The Words I Used To Know
- Links of friendship and love,a guest blog, from my niece and friend Denise Bell.
- Loss and grief, no advice here just my perspective, sorry about the length…
- Et Tu Brute (us)
- Brother Fish
- Dead Rats, Shit Sandwiches and Telegraph Punches
- Smoke Choke Croak
- Sitting on my Tongue (Confessions of a recovering keyboard warrior)
- Present Arms
- The Casketeers
- Another Birthday
- Taking it in my stride.
- Freedom
- Factum est quod Factum est (what’s done is done)
- Waiting for God (or dicing with death)
- Is Alfred Ngaro The Donald Trump of New Zealand?
- Let Them Eat Cake
- Dear Julia
- Two o’clock and all’s well
- Charlie
- False Gods and Tin Men and The Bachelor
- ANZAC Day
- When is enough?
- Still the Same
- DNF (did not finish)
- Lost in Translation
- Feb the 1st
- Forgive me Father, (part 1)
- Celebrations
- Transience a form of neglect?
- You must be rich
- People Of The Lie. (Malignant Narcissism)
- How is the Golf?
- Hey Mister ,can you spare some change?
- Opinions Can Be Like Farts
- How do I see myself?
- You Better Get In This Bloody Car Right Now
- El Zorrito
- Fathers Day (Things My Dad Taught Me)
- Flagging a change.
- Like My Life #National Poetry day
- The Buck Stops Here.
- Not another bloody God botherer!
- Dr Google has no bedside manner
- Lust, like and love.
- Ghosts of the past
- Carparks and Murder
- Too Clever Too Quick, Daniel Patrick Livingstone, Another Perspective.
- Wēijī Crisis + Danger = Opportunity, right?
- I bin on holiday,
- Is Daniel Patrick Livingstone another Tony Robertson? Our next killer?
- Danger Will Robinson, (Signboards part three)
- A Prayer for Victor, cold charity?
- Try a Tart (signboards part two)
- Silence greeted me
- Stop,check your feet, make an appointment (signboards part 1)
- So what do we know?
- The Fatman Must Go http://tinyurl.com/TheFatmanmustgo
- Not that C**t
- My Son Josh
- Howling At The Moon
- Homeless Part Two
- Homeless part 1
- Follow your passion
- Be careful with matches
- A Song for Grace
- John Campbell gone, a tragedy, travesty or a wake up call?
- One great love, really?
- What price integrity? Four dollars today at Pak n Save
- A repost of a riposte
- The Buck Stops here…
- How is your day?
- I Hate Small Towns Part Two
- Equal Under The Law (The Motto of Graham McCready)
- Clash of Colours
- Grappling with the big questions Part 1
- RIP Uncle Nelson
- Knowing too much
- A Bed and a Dresser
- Karma or calmer?
- Karma, really?
- Roast Busters, Police and Incompetence
- Guest Post From My Delightful Daughter Julia
- Fried Rice for Dinner
- Judges Chapter One
- The Housing Crisis Continued.
- The Non Housing Crisis
- Cotton On wants sweat shops in New Zealand as well as overseas.
- Two weddings and a few funerals
- Waiting for God
- Sometimes doing nothing is the best option.
- Of concerts and responsibility
- On the road
- Testing times…
- My blog has gone crazy
- A first for me
- One layer after another
- Close your eyes else it won’t work and say tangu,
- You have seen them
- I used to believe in forever…
- Bring On The Clowns.
- Mark Mitchell MP 100% Vindication for Stupidity
- Oamaru, Timaru, Waipukurau, Pokeno Mercer, Tuakau
- So What Is Love?
- BMW vs Honda?
- Five years, and change for incinerating a man alive
- I hate bare floors
- Manopausal perhaps?
- Living in a garage doesn’t make you a car….
- Jars of Clay
- Hello Sciatica My Old Foe.
- Blond hair, dark glasses and a puffer jacket,
- Not broken, just finished
- Broken, somethings just are….
- Sunday Afternoon at Kmart, Defcon 1 in Ten Seconds
- Reflections, (Internalising a complicated situation)!
- The ramblings of a (good?) man!
- 1982 A long time ago
- Caution, content may offend.
- Delta Dawn and I
- It comes in handy you know, sometimes small towns are great
- Ebola, it’s so cold.
- Julia’s Story
- Dipping my toes
- The right to choose? Life or Dignity?
- Shaking the Cross
- Auckland Poem
- Auckland Part Two
- Auckland Part 1
- Pulling the plug
- Dirty Politics, School and Voting.
- A spring poem
- I am a Writer?
- Sieg Heil, a cause for concern?
- The poems have gone,
- Am I becoming my mother?
- Stephen Dudley, Counting for Nothing, the cost of an over tolerant, society that lacks moral fibre.
- Lord, protect me from my friends
- Popularity contests are not won by the truth.
- Too honest to be kind (and too kind not to be honest)
- I wonder what they are thinking?
- Scones, Soup, Sherry and Flora
- The truth will set you free (or me anyway)
- Softly Falling
- Purple Rain
- Koru
- This too shall pass…
- Maybe just maybe
- Stone Walls, a prison?
- Rolf Harris and the suffocating silence of sexual abuse.
- My Name is Paul and I thank God I am not an alcoholic
- Typical Maori, will the real Rex Magnum please stand up!
- It is broken forever.
- Its a matter of faith and it’s personal.
- Hi my name is Paul and I am a Social Worker
- Grey is my world am I lucky?
- Not my Circus, not my Monkeys!
- Ten things I wish were true. (or maybe a few less)
- Of Biltong, Roast Beef and, life
- Look into my eyes.
- John Banks Resigns
- My Brother Anthony.
- I Hate Small Towns, Part Two
- The missing link.
- The razor blades are blunt anyway, so don’t worry!
- Howling At The Moon
- Thursday Night U Turn
- Candy Crush , really? No thanks I am on a diet!
- Warning may cause uncomfortableness and concern.
- Illegitimi non carborundum I think they have this time
- Faking it, not me….
- Don’t let others determine the outcome.
- The Art of War (Choice)
- My Name is Paul and I am a
- A little respect goes a long way.
- Novopay and Me No Marriage of Covenience #novopay
- An unexamined life is one that is not worth living. (Only dead fish float with the current)
- No White Flag (even though I may have sand in my shoes)!
- A blessed New Year to you all!
- Hope deferred Proverbs 13:12
- Persona non grata.
- Cash Gas Grass or Arse. Nobody rides for free!
- Celebration
- Roast Busters a society problem?
- Rest In Peace Robyn Alma Grace
- Take a little, now and then.
- Looking for intimacy? A few thoughts.
- Something in my life I don’t want to live without
- This frog is tired of being boiled.
- Who will miss me when I am gone
- His Royal Grumpiness speaks.
- The face of evil?
- She has another man!
- There be Monsters (Well Mad Max at least)
- Die Here kom gou terug, The Lord is coming soon?
- Sometimes it is very hard not to be judgemental!
- A good death?
- Teaching a work of the heart?
- One of those days today.
- 99 Again
- If someone tells me I am a good man one more time!!!
- So you want to go back to Egypt? Tell yourself the truth!
- Facing fear sometimes means facing failure.
- Thanks Everybody
- 38 Teaspoons of Sugar for Breakfast?
- The F word again.
- Kids are cruel. Bullies are endemic
- Excuse me for not celebrating
- Let him fry
- Stuff happens
- Urge
- Something a little different
- My Badges
- My Badges
- Badges of Class?
- Family Badges
- Badges part two
- Badges of belonging
- A moment in time in Orewa
- Everyone wants to belong
- Creating memories
- Chase Your Dreams
- Murder up close and personal
- Fifty Shades of Grey
- My final blog about Christmas
- 952
- Life goes on even when things change.
- Peace on Earth and Goodwill to all. Not very likely!
- Christmas is for Children
- Pain and Pleasure
- Christmas part two
- Christmas Past
- Wrestling with death.
- I saw Death
- Wow what a lesson!
- Life is too short for regrets
- Have a little respect (dare to care)
- Baby Steps Million for a Million
- Flicking the switch
- Then Sings my Soul
- My heart on my sleeve and Internet dating
- Top Tips For Healthy Living
- If it has to be it’s up to me!
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
- Have some self respect
- An Alternative Model of Wellness (Nga Tapa Wha)
- Misery
- A lonely Friday night poem!
- Cookies and Milk, not tonight! Healthy Mind Healthy Body continued.
- Healthy Mind Healthy Body
- With Thanks to Will
- Sounds of Silence
- A Million for a Million
- Dear God I hate mirrors and 20/20 vision.
- Losing 100 pounds: challenges and secrets.
- Part Three of how I lost 100 pounds. Barriers
- Part Two 100 Excuses for Obesity Debunked (well at least 5)
- The Fatman must go!!!
- A few words as I moved through my journey
- How I lost 100 lbs (45 kg) Nearly 1/3 of my body weight!
- Decisions Decisions Decisions!
- A Parable of Hope?
- Do real men cry?
- Cogito Ergo Sum, really?
- Cogito ergo sum. I think therefore I am
- The Shallow Man Knocks
- Perfection personified, not I unfortunately.
- The Bully Within
- Emotional enlightenment, the beginning?
- Ha Ha I Still Hate You
- My Heart on My Sleeve, guilty your honour!
- Cathartic, who me?
- A glimmer of hope in the darkness of despair
- Emotional Illiteracy Part 3 The Journey Begins
- Truth and Hope an Antidote for Fear
- Emotional Illiteracy Part 2 Still bound by Fear
- Fear Results in Emotional Illiteracy.
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- Fear as the driver of Domestic Violence, Power and Control
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