Anna Chinn's blog

The rest of the Commonwealth may have long since moved on from Delhi, but Chinn-wag has never claimed to be fashionable. We depart from the Indian capital this week, through the eyes of guest blogger Matt Dadley, formerly of Dunedin.

Anna Chinn is still in hiding. This week the guest blogger, Delhi resident and absurdist poet Matt Dadley takes an absurdly poetical look back at the 19th Commonwealth Games. In which he makes a cryptic reference to a man named Neil.

Anna Chinn has escaped and is expected to remain at large for three weeks. In the meantime, Delhi resident, absurdist poet and ex-classmate of Alison Shanks, Matt Dadley, will be guest blogger. Here, he lists the best bits of the Commonwealth Games so far, and dreams about butter and the first ever steeplechase.

Don't most people have a voting bias that is peculiar to their own little world? I have one that is peculiar to people interested in the machinery of language; to subeditors and the like.

Over to you, auk.

Well, my voting papers haven't arrived yet, and anyway I'm still narrowing down my choices, so here's a final policy question for Dunedin City Council candidates.

Yes and, if you are running for the Dunedin City Council in the coming election, I would like to know what your policy is on the chief executive. I don't mean what's your policy on Jim Harland, but rather, what's your policy on the role of the DCC chief exec?

Yes and, if you are running for the Dunedin City Council in the coming election, I would like to know what your policy is on angry drivers.

If you are running for the Dunedin City Council in the coming election, I would like to know what your policy is on fruit trees. Fruit trees, nut trees, berry bushes and, while you're on the topic, community gardens.

At the crêpe stall at the Otago Farmers Market, a man was trying to get his sons to share their crêpes with him.

I didn't know him personally but because Dunedin is not a big city, I knew the boys were his sons and he was an off-duty priest. The sons were young, maybe 8 and 6.