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	April/May   The bits of stuff that fall in the cracks between Life, Music and Outrageous Fortune.           Roger Pyke and Coleen O'Neil at Chocolate Buddha Roger & Coleen hit town 27.5.16 - That I've managed to keep in touch with Roger Pyke and Coleen O'Neill (pic) over the years has been due to good luck more than good management - which is entirely consistent with my management record when I tried to look after Roger's band Daniel sometime during the last century. The main thing is that we remain good friends and are now coincidentally stable mates in the Laneway Music experiment. Roger and Coleen have been in Melbourne for nearly a week and are going home tomorrow so it was good to meet up with them today at Chocolate Buddha, one of our fave places to eat when we're in Fed. Square. It was good fun too and we all enjoyed the food.           New Zealand in pictures 1) Dad, Dave and Mike 2) Chants' Marty Forrer shows me the car he built - and drives 3) Hello Sailor discovered in flagrante in Napier 4) The fabled Kapiti Island near Paraparaumu's friggin' Virgin Mary 5) The Len Lye Gallery in New Plymouth 6) The Hamilton gardens 7) The Chinese garden with bridge 8) The Fiona Pardington exhibition at the Auckland Gallery 9) We wish Mum a fond farewell at the Manukau gardens 10) The Shads arrive in ChCh 11) Mike and Tony Brittenden scoff some tapas and some G&Ts 12) Jan's fabled gooseberry pie 13) The Shads fight for selfie space at the Pancake Rocks 14) Part of the Fox Glacier gorge 15) Mt Cook in view from the picturesque Lake Matheson 16) Chants' guitarist Jim Tomlin with M&M in Dunedin 17) M&M at the Riverstone restaurant 18) The Shads being underwhelmed at Moeraki 19) Mike revisits Lynch Gate at Christ's 20) The friggin' Virgin Mary appears on our morning toast 21) Lyndsay Hammond and Trevor Courtney M&M go to New Zealand 28.5.16 - Luckily I've kept a record of the trip and I will get round to recounting the story - eventually.                   back to the top