Friar's Balsam

My life at Otago has settled into a pattern - walk down to the university in the morning. Sit at my desk, read, drink coffee, read, eat a s...

I have the magic ID card and can use the library. This is progress. But it still takes a few days to get security access loaded onto my car...

Things have changed since 1975-1977 when I was last enrolled as a fulltime student at Otago. Now it's computerised. But the computer th...

I've returned to student life at my alma mater, Otago University. I heard yesterday that I've been admitted as a candidate for PhD...

Thursday 12 May, 9 am Arrived in Milan yesterday en route to Assisi. This is where most of the long haul flights come in – and Singapore to ...

Bangalore Airport, Friday 29 April, 6:30 pm. Am now waiting for my international connection on Singapore Airlines to take me back to Austral...

Thursday 28th, 7am We went to Leh airport yesterday morning for our Air India flight back to Delhi, but the flight was cancelled because of ...