Bill Ralston: Old dogs, new party tricks

You’re never too old to live it up – slowly.

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25th August, 2012

One weekend recently I had a birthday. Nothing too terrifying – it didn’t end in a zero, but it was close enough to a traumatic age to encourage me to flee Auckland and seek refuge in the company of friends. We found a remote beach house to rent in a region otherwise well stocked with vineyards and some fine restaurants and decided to make it a fat weekend by including Friday as part of the celebrations. This caused a little consternation and some debate, as when this group gets together, there tend to be mammoth bursts of gluttonous eating, binge-drinking and ...

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