By Gregor Thompson
I am what people
outside of the cycling community would consider a cyclist. I
cycle to work, I cycle to my friends’ houses, I
reluctantly cycle up The Terrace to Victoria University,
I’ve cycled both of the Major New Zealand Islands and
I’ve cycled the circumference of Taiwan. For me it’s a
convenience, one that is good for the environment and one
that keeps me relatively fit.
I’m personally not fond of
your typical cycling buff all that much – I find they
over-prioritise the sport. The buffs who work in the
industry are the worst. They have tendency of condescending
Claire, 1. February 2021, 11:57
Thanks for your refreshing honesty regarding biking in Wellington. Not for the faint of heart. Let’s do a cost analysis against actual riders. Or is it a build it and they will come scenario? Electric cars on the roads hopefully will now be speeded up after the Commission report. And maybe apartments without parks and chargers will become white elephants.
Francis McRae, 1. February 2021, 14:01
Sensible conservative: how am I meant to move a piano with a bicycle? How am I meant to get to my home on the top of a remote mountain? I can’t plow my field with a bicycle.
Opinion – Gregor Thompson
11 years after her Oscar short-listed 2009 film This Way of Life , Tree of Strangers is Barbara Sumners first literary work. Her newly published autobiography is consistent with her previous work in the sense that it is exceptional.
Review of Barbara Sumner’s book: Tree of Strangers
By Gregor Thompson
I bumped into a childhood friend recently in a bar in Auckland. Ordinarily, I live in Wellington but I was on my way to Paris to start a new life. The recent surge in Covid-19 cases in continental Europe has necessarily put that plan on the backburner. Lily told me that her mother had written a book and that I ‘ought to read it. Not knowing what to expect, I came out the other side with an internal obligation to share what I had read.
By
Gregor Thompson
I bumped into a childhood friend
recently in a bar in Auckland. Ordinarily, I live in
Wellington but I was on my way to Paris to start a new life.
The recent surge in Covid-19 cases in continental Europe has
necessarily put that plan on the backburner. Lily told me
that her mother had written a book and that I ‘ought to
read it. Not knowing what to expect, I came out the other
side with an internal obligation to share what I had read.
Having previously
worked as a journalist, amongst other things Barbara Sumner
is an award-winning documentary producer. Sumner is a