Reporter’s diary

Press, 21 November 1986, Page 2

Reporter’s diary

Riding for pleasure DIFFERENT WAYS Of riding a horse led to the idea of forming a Western Pleasure Club in Christchurch. Although many riders will be aware of the usual F.E.I. or English show style of riding, they may not know about changes in both riding gear and riding techniques for the Western cowboy style. The club, which will be started if there is sufficient interest, is not intended as an opposition to pony clubs, says its spokesman, Rick Bourke, himself a former cowboy. Organised riding, learning new riding skills and improving horsemanship would be among the club activities, with the accent on riding for pleasure. Further information may be obtained from Mr R. Bourke, 18b Waimairi Road, Christchurch 4. Cabin pressure MORE ON airline cabin crew who despair about passengers not paying attention to flight safety procedure talks: once, on a flight to America, a reader saw a steward trying to give the safety drill when he suddenly snapped: “Keep quiet at the back — statistically you’ve got most to lose.” Halo’d ground WHEN THE photograph. of the Right Rev. John Magee and the Rev. Miles O’Malley was in

“The Press” on November 12, we paid scant attention to the circlets of lights in tbe Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament hovering angelically above the two clerics. But a Christchurch reader, Yvonne Halligan, did. She wrote: “I can only suggest the look of mild surprise on the face of the Rev.

Miles O’Malley could only be caused by the fact that the Right Rev. John Magee appears to have two tialos, whereas he has none.” Well-matched IS IT JUST coincidence that of two free samples to strive in the newsroom

this week, one is the latest puzzle invented by the creator of the Rubik cube, and the other is the world’s first vitamin C spray? The emotional stress brought on by playing with Rubik’s "Magic Puzzle” could perhaps be countered by a quick squirt of “Vitamist” to refuel the body with the amounts of vitamin C which the company say are needed "during periods of stress and smoke inhalation.” The company releasing the oral spray on the market claims that Vitamist is a significant medical breakthrough as it allows immediate vitamin absorption into tbe bloodstream. Flexi-frustration RUBIK’S new instrument of torture, the “Magic Puzzle,” is based on a patented hinge system which allows all four sides of the eight panels to flex independently. Like its predecessor, the Rubik cube, “Magic” is expected to sell, and drive populations to a frenzy, in equal proportions. People seen trying the new puzzle which was released in New Zealand this week, have shown a tendency to become as “unhinged” as the mechanism. It looks like another success for the Hungarian professor of architecture and design at the Academy of Design and Crafts in Budapest. One wonders if he designs houses along the same lines as his brain teasers. —Jenny