Greetings fellow Clubbies. I trust you are hunkering down with whatever takes your fancy as we head into winter's wet and colder weather. This edition of the blog pays tribute to Patrick Nolan, who many will know became a Yeoman…
Greetings fellow Clubbies. It was good to have had an ANZAC day which was able to be commemorated in the way we traditionally have, after last year’s COVID-affected events. Looking at our Facebook group site, I could see that we…
Greetings. I was reading a news feed the other day and the following headline caught my eye: "Old boys return to St Stephen's School at Bombay for cleanup towards reopening." St Stephen's sadly closed its doors in 2000 following hard…
Greetings fellow Clubbies. Well, it's February already and as I look around the world I feel gratitude - despite the yo-yoing of NZ Covid lock-downs - that I live in Godzone, where insurrections don't happen and where we don't, as…
Greetings fellow Clubbies and happy New Year. By this time, as Cadets, we would have been either searching for the tin of tartan blanco our wonderfully caring seniors instructed all the new snots to find, or we were back in…
December greetings, fellow Clubbies. Well, 2020 will certainly be a year we will be looking forward to seeing the last of. Mind you, as Cadets we were always glad when the last month of the year finally turned up, as…
Greetings fellow Clubbies and welcome to the 12th "As You Were!" post (doesn't time go by when you're not watching the clock or having a nap). November is upon us and back in the day we were trying to juggle…
Hello one and all. Well, here we are three-quarters of the way through 2020 and if you are like me, you are wishing this annus horribilis (note carefully the spelling of "annus") was well and truly over. In keeping with…
Greetings fellow Clubbies. If you know the original of this verse and you were a calendar-watcher like me, you knew that we were now two-thirds of the way through our Cadet year and that counting down the days to Grad…
August - red and blues Having been raised in an Anzac country, I've never been able to resist images of poppies, so when I read that the birthday flowers for August are the poppy and gladiolus, I went looking. Other…