Wednesday, May 30, 2007  innocuous grace  As I anticipate
watching an advance screening (tonight) of the Wilberforce movie
- Amazing Grace - I thought this might be an opportune time to
share my first and last efforts in song-writing. It goes like
this:  Innocuous Grace, how dull the sound that saved a nice guy
like me.  nice chatting   [later ... rather than writing a new
post, I have written a little 'review' of Amazing Grace and
embedded it within the 'comments' on this post]  Tuesday, May
22, 2007  on silliness and sadness  Recently I visited the Blue
Penguin Colony in Oamaru. Having been ushered through the
Visitor Centre 50 of us gathered in a little grandstand to wait
and to watch - and to listen to an expert tell us about the blue
penguin. She knew her stuff! She described what the blue penguin
looked like and how they lived. Just 30cm tall! They spend each
night in their little hobbiton up a slope and then in the
morning they waddle down to the ocean and disappear for up to
50kms of swimming and as m