Getting Paid to Write

It probably goes completely against the philosophy of blogging, but I've set up an off-shoot of this blog for some of the columns my husband writes for his work - GT in Sydney.

It is also probably a breach of NZPA's copyright but I'll be very apologetic when they call.

Greg's a real life proper journalist who writes particularly freely, and quite well, about rugby, racing and beer. Those of you familiar with the "average Kiwi bloke" will recognise these as some of the most significant and long-standing pastimes of New Zealand males. He can even write about other stuff, in fact he wrote about Chinese dissidents in one of his recent columns but his Mum told him "we don't know any of these people". Which is very true.

He does drink wine too - is a great fan of Central Otago pinot noir.

His writing gets printed in papers and goes on websites and stuff in NZ, but I wanted to have my own record of what he's been writing, especially while he is posted here in Australia. The stuff I like, anyway.

He actually even received his first "hate email" this week, from someone who basically had a go at him for repeating discussions verbatim he'd picked up from talkback radio. To set the record straight, I can verify that GT does not spend much time listening to talkback. When I go into his office he's always got the racing channel on the tele. No radio.

L.