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#86 🍰 The most immaculate sense of OCCASION imaginable 🎂

The Without a Hitch newsletter features true stories of failure and practical tidbits on how not to fail (AKA succeed). I make all the mistakes so you don’t have to. 🫠 Festival urchins In 2001 it was difficult to make a whole pavlova in New York, my wife Vic tells

#85 😬 A level of CRINGE which cannot be matched 🦉

The Without a Hitch newsletter features true stories of failure and practical tidbits on how not to fail (AKA succeed). I make all the mistakes so you don’t have to. 🫠 Unbearable cringe of my own making Waiting in line at the book signing for David Sedaris’ Auckland show was

Hug your fence

Hug your fence

To rent is to be free from the disquiet of such expensive trivia as insurance, rates and household maintenance. But pets are an issue. Once my wife Vic and I purchase our own house, a wee fifties place in Paraparaumu, Vic wastes no time starting a menagerie. To most people,

Negotiating the canal

Negotiating the canal

We’re not people who’ll eat a placenta but we will place a couple on ice in a chest freezer. One for us, and one for a friend whose freezer is too small to accommodate both meat and out-of-use human organs. My wife Vic and I might be considered

#84 🪵 It’s better than bad – it’s GOOD 😄

The Without a Hitch newsletter = hilarious true stories of failure + casual, practical tidbits for success. I make all the mistakes so you don’t have to. 🫠 Longer than short (but worthwhile) As the year draws to a close, it’s important for us to commemorate this iconic theme song for

#83 🕸️ Two turtles, a #tardis, and how hard exactly HARD ought be 🪨

The Without a Hitch newsletter = hilarious true stories of failure + casual, practical tidbits for success. I make all the mistakes so you don’t have to. 🫠 Journal 📖 Shaking it up, with turtles In the wee hours of Sunday morning our Lockwood-style wooden house bucked under the force of a magnitude-5.

#82 🥃 Must be something in the WATER 💧

The Without a Hitch newsletter = hilarious true stories of failure + casual, practical tidbits for success. I make all the mistakes so you don’t have to. 🫠 Journal 📖 For a time, I lived in one of the greatest nexus flats in Wellington. It was a weatherboard-clad home on Adelaide Road in

Toothbrushes and minimalism

Toothbrushes and minimalism

When minimalism takes the form of a quiet and simple campaign of manipulation