Grey heads having a gay old time

My father’s hobby was breeding and racing thoroughbred racehorses. This could prove both lucrative and costly. One positive feature however was that he got to meet and befriend a host of interesting people and one of these was a man named Lou Fisher. Lou Fisher was an Australian and managed a theatrical company for David Nathan Martin. Martin was an Englishman who had settled in Australia and produced a great many stage shows that toured...

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Things aren’t always as they seem

The chairperson of the Greater Windytown Regional Council, Frangipani Wildflower, walked the walk. On this occasion the walk was the one named in her honour on the concourse leading to the vast entrance to the Eastpac Stadium on Windytown’s waterfront. She was holding the report from the consultants commissioned by the Wire-Wrapper Governance Review Working Party and she was not happy with it contents. “Smoke and mirrors” Martyrdom...

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Losing the battle of the sexes

Two news items caught my eye last week. In one we were told that surveys have shown that people over 60 are overwhelmingly opposed to gay marriage compared to their younger counterparts who are more liberal. The message implied being that the older generation are more straitlaced than their subsequent offspring. But then on the same day we were informed of the dubious deeds of a Slovakian bike rider named Peter Sagan. The runner-up...

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Church and state drifting apart

When I was about 13 years of age I was a choirboy - cassock, surplice, boy soprano et al. It was quite a commitment. Choir practice was on Tuesday and Thursday evenings; attendance at church was at 10 am on Sunday for Holy Communion and then again at 7 pm for Evensong. The venue was the St Matthews Anglican church in Masterton’s aptly named Church Street and as I recall the congregations were evenly divided gender-wise. I’m not...

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