I meant to post this ages ago but I have been waiting on the accompanying photos. In a recent post I alluded to Madeleine winning her last equestrian event (pre-car accident). In the last few years she has resumed her sporting interest in horse riding and when our daughter Sheridan bought her horse Trogdor the […]
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Auckland University Short Courses
June 3rd, 2008 Comments Off on Auckland University Short Courses
I just got emailed the proof for the cover of the Auckland University In House Short Courses brochure which features me. I am also visible here on the company testimony pages: The pictures were shot in the Owen Glenn building the day after its infamous grand opening. It is a very flash building, very grand […]
Tags: Career
Update on Madeleine’s Car Accident and Recovery
June 3rd, 2008 Comments Off on Update on Madeleine’s Car Accident and Recovery
Initially, following the car accident, Madeleine was diagnosed with whiplash but her pain levels were extreme and she was constantly back and forward with her doctor adjusting pain relief regimes and reducing her work hours. Finally, at work one morning she lost feeling in her arms and legs so was rushed to the doctors and […]
Tags: Car Accident · Career · Law Studies
Well Done Glenn
May 17th, 2008 2 Comments
I write this post to offer my sincerest congratulations to my good friend Glenn People’s (who runs an excellent blog here). Today Glenn Graduated from the University of Otago with a PhD in Philosophy for his research thesis entitled Religion in the Public Square. Glenn’s thesis was an examination and critique of the thesis, propounded […]
Tags: Glenn Peoples · Graduation · Religion in Public Life
Car Accident
March 26th, 2008 3 Comments
On her way from work to Uni, Madeleine was stopped at traffic lights today and another driver drove into the back of her. She was taken to hospital with suspected neck injuries and her car looks like a write off.
Tags: Car Accident
Back to Law School
March 6th, 2008 Comments Off on Back to Law School
Way back in 1993 I began an LLB (Bachelor of Law) part-time. I took a break from it 8 years ago following the death of our first child but now we are settled in Auckland I am ready to pick it up again. My employer has given me a bonding agreement to complete it so […]
Tags: Career · Law Studies
Stupid Animal Welfare Moron and the Council *grr*
February 12th, 2008 3 Comments
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gz1DIIxmEE”>Trogdor
I am supposed to be online surfing trade me for summer horse covers but I am mad so I came here instead. I am mad because I don’t want to spend money on a horse cover our horse does not need and, well probably mostly, I resent being made to do so by some idiot […]
Tags: Bad Policy · City Council · Equestrian · Trogdor
A common objection to belief in the God of the Bible is that a good, kind, and loving deity would never command the wholesale slaughter of nations. In the tradition of his popular Is God a Moral Monster?, Paul Copan teams up with Matthew Flannagan to tackle some of the most confusing and uncomfortable passages of Scripture. Together they help the Christian and nonbeliever alike understand the biblical, theological, philosophical, and ethical implications of Old Testament warfare passages.
