Jeannie: My Star Speaker

From a young age Jeannie had an exceptional presence. You could tell when she was in a room because she commanded attention. Not by being the loudest or the funniest but just by being Jeannie. When she spoke, everyone listened and as she has got older it’s only become more impressive. It didn’t surprise anyone when […]

Improving my health with hyperbarics

My whole life I’ve been vilified and ostracised for my poor health. You’d think this was the Third Reich, they way most people reject those who are not as physically perfect as they are. Superiority is human instinct, I’ve learnt. It’s the will to power. They may say that I’m a hypochondriac, they may say […]

Smitten over snapper racks

There’s only so much you can watch a mate go through before you feel like staging some kind of…intervention. I dunno, Alan seems happy sometimes, but he’s not really gonna be happy when his new girlfriend finds out that he’s been lying to her the whole time. Doesn’t he know anything? Women always find out […]

Dry needling: My rescue remedy

Thank the lord for the dry needling. It has been a miraculous cure to my chronic back pain. Every day since my beautiful Stevie was born I have woken up, taken multiple painkillers and prayed they last longer than the previous day. I have visited osteopaths, chiropractors and physiotherapists across Auckland and I have found […]

Learning beauty for my salon

Maybe we need to build a bathroom in the back garden. Sometimes in the middle of the night I get an upset stomach, and it leads to everyone else being upset as well. There are noises…I won’t go into it. The worst part is that I wake up in the morning still looking like death. […]