Tag: Beggars
No spare change: how charities, buskers and beggars aren’t feeling so festive in our cashless society
Image: Shuttlestock
Collectors for the Paralympic Games carried donation buckets ahead of the recent Santa parade in Auckland, asking for gold coin donations. Onlookers...
POTATO JACK
Potato Jack often left home without his jacket on. His mum warned him he’d catch his death, but she was wrong. Just like she...
THE FINAL STAGE – Adrian Rawlins review of what he called “My lost masterpiece”.
It started out like a normal day for the man of the house. He had breakfast with his wife. She was no warmer or...
JESUS – THE JEWISH DILEMMA
Who is Jesus Christ? The facts are he was born Yeshua ben Yosef – a simple man from a simple town. Born at a...
THE POWER OF IDIOTS
I sit in this room, this crumbling room I grew to love, cluttered by the mementoes of a crumbled life. Framed photographs of friends,...
THE DEAD AND THE DYING
The heavy decrepit bodies of the great and not so, mingled with their offsprings, children too young to realise that this too would be...