Mike Crowl's Random Notes

  First published in Column 8 on the 1 st April, 1992   When you see those crowded terraces of monitors behind the newsreaders on televis...

  First published in Column 8, 25 th March, 1992 With all the discussion about the placement of a new tip, I can no longer avoid putting ...

First published in Column 8 on the 18 th March, 1992 Though it’s more than a fortnight since I first saw it, a news photo has continued t...

First published in Column 8 on the 11 th March 1992 To avoid the atrophy of the brain as I grow older, I continue to ask questions. Thus ...

First published in Column 8 on the 4 th March, 1992 Put progress in the driving seat and she takes some curious turns. This week we bough...

First published in Column 8 on the 26th February, 1992 Words have a funny way of shifting meaning when used by differing groups. In a news...

First published in Column 8 on the 12 th February, 1992 We used to have a discussion in our house (of the more heated sort) in which my s...

First published in Column 8, on the 19 th February, 1992 The week the national secretary of the Principals’ Federation of New Zealand, Mr...

First published in Column 8 on the 22 January, 1992, and about as random in relation to the topic as I ever managed to be.   A reader of t...

  First published in Column 8 on the 18 December 1991   Over the last few months I’ve been reading Charles Dickens’ novel, Great Expectati...

First published in Column 8 on the 4 December, 1991 Australians? Now, I know they’re crazy. (Just because I was born in Melbourne doesn’t ...

  First published in Column 8 on 30 th October, 1991 I know I haven’t any statistics to prove it, but my gut feeling is that we’re the mo...