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#90 🩳 We have the TECHNOLOGY 💿

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. 🫠 Listen, to the timbre of the neighbourhood Is a poodle cross a good choice for a guard dog, if

14: Dog’s Spare Human Holds Phone in Cold Dark Street

14: Dog’s Spare Human Holds Phone in Cold Dark Street

Is a poodle cross a good choice for a guard dog, if your neighbourhood is embroiled in light to medium crime? Today’s story answers the hard questions. A tale of posh pets, local delinquency, and a fear of snobbery. Prefer to read? Here’s the story: Dog’s Spare

#89 🐰 DRAW on that experience 🥪

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. 🫠 Grow it back My daughter Ida (recently 10) has never really seen my face. When she was little I

#88 🏷️ What’s in a NAME, and procrastinatory ditties of the mind 🎼

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. 🫠 Fear of the word itself I watched Deadpool with my son Neko the other day. It’s a movie

#87 ⚽️ Buckyballs, Orwellian tea, and being OLD as the hills 🫖

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. 🫠 Popsicle There are insects which can freeze over winter but thaw out in the spring and walk away. Angular,

#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

Dog’s Spare Human Holds Phone in Cold Dark Street

Dog’s Spare Human Holds Phone in Cold Dark Street

Growing up in the ganglands of Whanganui, I learned that a mean bastard of a dog can deter most low-level trouble, whichever side of the fence you’re on. But we did not get a mean bastard of a dog.

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