Phil Goff is wearing gumboots and jeans with mud on them and wielding an axe.Thus begins a dire puff piece in the Weekend Herald on Phil Goff.
The Labour Party leader is chopping wood and putting some sweat into a stubborn ring from the privets he felled on the 20-acre farm he and wife Mary own in Clevedon.
This piece has a knot running through it but he's not going to let that stop him.
He chops and chops, splinters are flying and everyone takes a step back.
For some reason I am reminded of this.
