Category Archives: This is Nelson

When I was growing up in New Zealand, there were 2 types of cheese Mild And Tasty. Now there’s Colby, too. If that’s not progress….

>Travelling subload is fun. You wait until the last minute before a flight leaves and when you think you might have got a seat, they’ll page you on the aircraft and you have to get off again. Not in Nelson … Continue reading →

>A English actor was quoted in the 1960s as saying “I once visited New Zealand, but it was closed”. I know how he feels. Just after Xmas, there’s a huge sucking noise and a version of musical chairs for 4 … Continue reading →

>I went looking for haloumi cheese in Push’n’Shove in Richmond today. The guy who appeared to be in charge reckoned that “the closest they had was havarti”. Alphabetically, I guess. “It’s probably one of those foreign ones”, he said. Yeah … Continue reading →

> My links with Nelson are tenuous. After Mum married Tom Roberts at the fine old age of 75, they moved to Mot in 1991 and lived there until they passed on (or “fell off the perch”, as Tom would … Continue reading →