Check out this cool new technology that allows your mobile phone to connect to a supercomputer so that it can identify all sorts of things through its camera and stuff… well it’s hard to explain, watch the video!

It is surely only a small step from here to futuristic sunglasses that overlay all sorts of information […]

Maybe one day I’ll get used to the Wellington weather again, but right now I am damn annoyed at the sun-rain-sun-rain-rain-rain cycle we seem to be trapped in. Would two nice days in a row be too much to ask of the universe? The worst sort is when it starts off beautifully, and you dress […]

Upon leaving kindy:
“Mummy, that teacher is not a very good singer.”
Upon getting in the car:
“Can we listen to Uncle Sam’s song that starts with the beautiful fairy music?”
Upon being put in his room for time out (as heard through the door):
“What will I do if she opens the door? I will kill her! But then […]

My Nobel Prize will be in the post shortly, as I have deduced a foolproof method to cure hiccups! (Well, it works for me anyway.) And it is simple and easy.
All you do is concentrate very hard on the sensation of the hiccup coming up your windpipe. Just block everything else out and focus all […]

Yesterday Archie walked in the door from school, put Prince on the stereo and then sat at the kitchen table to read “Habitat” magazine. He is a rather unusual six year old! He discovered an old Prince compilation of mine and it’s currently his favourite. It is pleasant after the unending rounds of Bob the […]

In case you missed it, the new Phoenix Foundation album, featuring my hirsute little brother Samuel Flynn Scott, is now in the shops. It’s called “Happy Ending” and I reckon it’s their best one yet! In another family connection, my brother Jake Walker did the album artwork which is very very groovy, and nice to […]

The tooth fairy has visited our house for the first time! Archie has lost one of his bottom canines. It was wobbly for a while and then it popped out - no doubt with a little help from Jan who was obsessed with wiggling it. It seems rather freaky that all his teeth are going […]