A very merry hoho to you all. This blog has been quiet because I've been imbibing of several merry ho ho which tends to dull my usually rapierlike wit.
Regular service will resume now that I've sobered up and as the next post is scheduled to be the latest instalment of the Insecure Writers Support Group I promise it'll be a nice big one that you can sink your teeth into.
Until then I present proof that the Hori Project lives!
I was sitting on the lid of the dustbin the
other Sunday enjoying half a gallon of cool beer which the missus had
put in the fridge for me the night before. A pakeha joker from up
the road has a gink at me and says “well Hori, what are you looking
so pleased about?”
“Well, “ I say , “it's a kapai morning,
the sun is shining, the birds are singing, the beer tastes plurry
good and I have had a good breakfast of bacon and eggs and the
curried crayfish which the mother in law couldn't finish on account
of having too much pakeha tucker at the indoor bowls meeting last
night”
This pakeha coot says to me, “what you think
about the yanks sending monkeys and things into space?”
I say “I don't know anything about this news”
He says, “Don't you read the papers?”
I tell him “Only when they make the korero
about the Maori not being allowed to go and play the Springboks in
Africa” I then say to this jokers, who looks about as cheerful as
most pakeha fellers do on a Sunday morning “will you have a drink
and a cold whitebait fritter?”
He says, “Cripes no. Don't you know that I
have a stomach ulcer?”
I say “How you get thing this thing?”
He says “It's the worry about the income tax
and the share market and one thing and another. Don't you get the
ulcer sometime?”
I tell him that I don't pay the income tax
'cause I got too many kids and I don't make enough dough to buy the
shares. I also tell him that even I f I did get the ulcer it
wouldn't have a show fighting the good tucker that I eat like the
crayfish, the paua, the pipi, the corn on the cob and the pig's head.
This pakeha coot he then say “Don't you ever
worry at all?”
I say “Py korry yes, sometimes when the wife’s
brother rats the fridge and pinches the pigs trotter which I always
have about two o'clock in the morning to keep me going till
breakfast”
This thin faced pakeha says “what you think
about the Russian situation and don't you worry about world affairs??”
I say “Py korry what you think we keep all
these jokers at the Parliament for? We pay them to do the
bellyaching and worrying for us, so why do the worrying ourselves?”
He says “Stiffen the crows... you've got
something there mate”
I say “Cut out this worry business. Don't
worry about the Yanks and the Russians. Just go ahead and eat the
good kai and drink the good beer. Have the good wahine and kids and
the good mates to enjoy the good things”
Do you know what? I talk this coot into having
the pigs trotter and a few pots and he soon forgets about the ulcer
and the income tax.
All of a sudden he says “Hori, your talk has
done me good. I feel a lot better”
In that case I tell him we better have something
to eat, so I bring out the mussels, the pipi, the corn cob and the
pickle onions a also another jar of beer.
When he go he thank me very much and say
goodbye.
I don't see this pakeha for about two weeks when
I am having a pot with my mate in the pub about
ten to six on Saturday. I see this joker standing on a chair making
the korero to about about 20 pakehas.
He wave the arms and says to this mob like this “You fellers worry too much about world affair
and your own personal selfishness. Also you don't eat the good
tucker like the pig's trotter, the pipi and the crayfish. Watch
yourselves “ he says “ or you will finish up with a good crop
of stomach ulcers.
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