In July 1961, an entity known as the ‘Mair Park Ghost’ terrified the citizens of small town Whangarei, New Zealand. I know… because my parents were some of those terrified citizens.
Bizarre events rarely happen in Whangarei, so when stories started circulating that a ghost was being sighted at Mair Park, my mum, dad and their friends did what any normal, [...]
I heard a stange thing on the radio this morning while driving around town. I’ve just done some Googling, and it appears something very bizarre has indeed been happening on a stretch of Canadian coastline recently.
Since August last year, no fewer than six individual human feet have washed up from the deep… all wearing rubber-soled training shoes.
The facts so far:
Last [...]
In a recent post of Paisley Jade’s she commented about her husband’s (that’s me) over-exuberance when using flyspray on wasps. Yes, I admit I have a slight dislike (understatement of the year) for wasps… Do you blame me? Being chased and stung by angry paper-wasps as a kid, and then having a stinging wasp trapped in my wetsuit!
I came [...]
Brian cracks me up! Remember, you saw it first here on symondrake.com!
In keeping with my latest ‘reminiscing-growing-up-in-the-80s-by-watching-Macgyver-DVDs-with-my-kids’ phase, I was wondering… does anyone else ever find themselves thinking…
This is the Wenger Giant Swiss Army Knife, packed with 85 fully functional implements, is 9 inches wide and has over 100 functions…
2.5″ 60% Serrated locking blade
Nail file, nail cleaner
Corkscrew
Adjustable pliers with wire crimper and cutter
Removable screwdriver bit adapter
2.5″ Blade for Official World Scout Knife
Spring-loaded, locking needle-nose pliers with wire cutter
Removable screwdriver bit holder [...]
You may have read in my “Top 5 Childhood Heroes” post that I had always wanted a genuine MacGyver pocket knife, but had never received one… until today!
Yep, 23 years after MacGyver mania began, a few days after my 34th birthday, sister-of-mandrake gave me a shiny new Victorinox Huntsman. Wow.
It all came flooding back. The opening credits, the theme song, [...]
One of the most memorable opening scenes in movie history has got to be the boulder scene in Raiders Of The Lost Ark. Of course, undiscovered tombs, ancient booby traps and giant rolling boulders are the stuff of make-believe, aren’t they? Well, perhaps not. I came across the following photos recently while doing some random surfing.
As I viewed these pictures, [...]
I ventured into the unknown today and made (with the help of my fabulous wife who did the icing) my son’s birthday cake.
He’s 9 years old today, and is crazy about Indiana Jones, so what better birthday cake to make him than a fairly unique ‘Indy-runs-from-a-giant-gobstopper-while-escaping-from-the-temple-of-doom’ one.
Actually, I’m quite proud of it, and Son Of Mandrake was stoked! It’s pretty [...]
My most memorable movie-going experience was seeing ‘Indiana Jones & The Temple Of Doom’ at the Civic theatre (Queen Street, Auckland) when I was 10 years old.
I was somewhat mesmerized every time I went to the Civic as a kid, because it seemed like I was literally transported into another world.
The Auckland Civic theatre was built in the 1920’s, and [...]
