Hard to explain this one, but I'm going to try ( Read more... )

So ended another year - in the company of some of my best friends and my partner, dancing to a kickass soul band ( Read more... )

I'm not a natural musician. Some people I know think I'm great, talented, whatever - but I'm just not. I look at the fretboard of my guitar as a challenge. Sometimes it's easy, sometimes nothing I do seems to fit. I do have the following strengths as a musician ( Read more... )

When I was in hospital, I read books, wrote songs, listened to my MP3 player and talked to friends, but I would often be awake at 3am, bored and lonely and in need of amusement. One of my favourite British radio shows operates on the love of the absurdities of language. They have a new definitions round, but I wanted to see what I could come up ( Read more... )

When my lung first collapsed in January, it took me all of a week to feel back to normal. In spite of the massive area of collapse, I suffered no long-term shortness of breath, muscles felt good - once the lung was reinflated, I was fighting fit. My loving partner Megan disagreed, and got (justifiably) furious when I insisted on doing something ( Read more... )

One of the nice things about having had invasive and painful surgery is that people tend to be very nice to you at work and send you home early ( Read more... )

Well, here I go again ( Read more... )

Whoops. I did it again.

More later, but I'm just home from hospital with my latest spontaneous pneumothorax. This one required an operation to be done to my lung to prevent it collapsing again!

Sore, tired and feeling all-too mortal. But it's not all bad, and I will share some stories - as soon as I'm up to date with sleep.

Tonight I had the enjoyable but frustrating experience of seeing a good friend hold his EP launch. He was great as always, but his band was amazing. Luke's songs have grown more and more catchy in his 4-year absence in Auckland, but he's always been lacking for a band that does his music justice. Tonight he had it in spades. The band, What Noisy ( Read more... )

I'm enjoying my new job very much. I'm especially enjoying being part of a team that values my input, appreciates my effort and trusts me to be a professional ( Read more... )