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  • Raymond A Francis,

    New Years day was spent helping shifting two sons into their new flat in Dunedin. we have been doing this for 10 ten years!
    Not every year, I must admit and this was the first time they have flatted together

    Nice flat, centrally placed but up two flights of 35 very high steps, facing the mid day sun on a hot, hot
    Dunedin day .......nightmare.....mid day mare

    Three trailer loads (we also shifted an absent flat mate, who owned would you believe a set of exercise weights!)
    I doubt if they will ever have another flat up stairs, they were left in no doubt of our feelings on the matter

    Good news was it was just up the road from the Speights Brewery so we did top up from their free water (there is always a queue filling up from the supposidly super fresh water) and the boys shouted us some ** Speights Summer Harvest **beer

    I quite like fruit beers and this has a nice subtle apricot flavour Central Otago touch.......certainly hit the spot but then anything brown and wet would have done

    Islander I was comtemplating a Mac, my wife is a long time user but you have quite put me off
    PS love the whitebait recipie and I have printed it for the next big feed

    45' South • Since Nov 2006 • 578 posts Report Reply

  • Kerry Weston,

    a hot, hot
    Dunedin day

    surely you jest? Haven't been to Dunedin for, oh, about a decade, but I fell in love with it and would move in a trice but for the bonechilling winters. And all the family etc up north. But still....

    Manawatu • Since Jan 2008 • 494 posts Report Reply

  • Islander,

    Kerry - Otepoti can be *scorchingly* hot (yep, the winters are a bit chill but hey! southern foods & drinks & and indeed. clothing (note I dont mention houses - I was partly brought up south sooo..._) make up for the cold-

    Raymond - Macs are really good - there are some crookies but follow your wife's advice- and they are *so* beautiful (the keyboard of the latest machine is the only reason I havent hurled the iMac at the nearest TotallySlack entity I could find...) Enjoy the 'bait!

    Big O, Mahitahi, Te Wahi … • Since Feb 2007 • 5643 posts Report Reply

  • Craig Ranapia,

    How long can your nose bleed before you should start getting worried?

    North Shore, Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 12370 posts Report Reply

  • Mark Harris,

    @stephen - ArtRage is lotsafun, especially if you have a tablet.

    @craig - depends on what sort of blood (arterial or venal - what colour is it - bright red or dark?), what sort of flow (drip, drip, drip or run, run, run), and what you're doing about it. I get a lot of nosebleeds due to a persistant and recurring infection. I usually stuff a wad of tissue up for about 20 minutes and it stops. If you've been bleeding for longer than an hour, you should see a doctor. (This is not medical advice, just personal experience)

    Waikanae • Since Jul 2008 • 1343 posts Report Reply

  • Joe Wylie,

    How long can your nose bleed before you should start getting worried?

    Trust that it's either stopped all by itself by now, or that you've sought help.

    Whatever, that line sounds scarily like highly quotable famous last words.

    flat earth • Since Jan 2007 • 4593 posts Report Reply

  • Hilary Stace,

    Healthline ph 0800 611 116 provides free (at least for now) health information. It's staffed by real health professionals.

    Wgtn • Since Jun 2008 • 3229 posts Report Reply

  • Sam F,

    Here's to a happy 2009 for all, with a minimum of computer meltdowns or persistent nosebleeds.

    I spent Friday at Mahurangi, which considering its proximity to Auckland is just indescribably good - felt like a proper holiday rather than a daytrip. Hopefully will be there again on Sunday, weather permitting.

    For now I'm planning the next few days' writing activities, trying to man up for a huge pile of ironing, and experimenting with (extremely basic) homemade rain collectors for our balcony. Yes, I know it'd be easier to lug the watering can inside to the tap when the tomatoes need a drink, but... it just seems nicer somehow.

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 1611 posts Report Reply

  • giovanni tiso,

    Happy New Year, everybody. This was going to be the holiday when I finally visited Auckland, but our youngest was sick so we had to come back early and bypass the fair city. It's like there's a force field that keeps me away from the place.

    (I promptly posted this on the wrong thread. Start the new year by highlighting how you still cannot work the Internet was one of my resolutions anyhow.)

    Wellington • Since Jun 2007 • 7473 posts Report Reply

  • Geoff Lealand,

    In Nelson, seemingly with the other half of New Zealand. My wife accused me of acting a 'bit weird' this morning but I do tend to go in that direction, when trapped with her relatives.

    If the day turns cloudy, I do recommend going to The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. It has been quite some time since I went to a film that was completely booked out for an early evening screening* but for a very long film (159 minutes), it is an absorbing experience, and my estimation of Brad Pitt has gone up a notch or two. The tug/submarine sequence is quite cinematically tremendous.

    * for the sake of completion/symmetry, I also went to Waltz With Bashir on NYE in Wellington, so I could record I had been to 52 films at the cinema in 2008!

    Screen & Media Studies, U… • Since Oct 2007 • 2562 posts Report Reply

  • Geoff Lealand,

    We have also joined the club, with a Bravia Sony 42" + Freeview installed--the reward from prolonged exam marking. Now we can see Media 7 as it is meant to be seen.

    Screen & Media Studies, U… • Since Oct 2007 • 2562 posts Report Reply

  • robbery,

    This has got to be one of the best film ideas i've seen in a while.
    hope they actually make it.
    iron sky

    in 1945 the nazis went to the moon,
    in 2018 they're coming back

    new zealand • Since May 2007 • 1882 posts Report Reply

  • giovanni tiso,

    Shamelessly stolen from Fascisti su Marte!

    Wellington • Since Jun 2007 • 7473 posts Report Reply

  • Emma Hart,

    Randomly picking a thread to derail, we have a new Doctor.

    Christchurch • Since Nov 2006 • 4651 posts Report Reply

  • robbery,

    Shamelessly stolen from Fascisti su Marte!

    possibly, but its still a cool idea. rewriting history from a fixed point on like 1995's Richard III.
    They should do it as a scifi thiller, not a comedy.
    The nazis made such good villains and it would make a break from all the terrorists ones at the moment.

    new zealand • Since May 2007 • 1882 posts Report Reply

  • Joe Wylie,

    possibly, but its still a cool idea. rewriting history from a fixed point on like 1995's Richard III.

    Not so coolly realised in the 1993 clunker Super Mario Brothers , which featured a parallel universe where dinosaurs had won the evolutionary race.

    flat earth • Since Jan 2007 • 4593 posts Report Reply

  • Isabel Hitchings,

    Randomly picking a thread to derail, we have a new Doctor.

    Who looks pretty much how I'd imagine David Tennant's scruffy younger brother would.

    Christchurch • Since Jul 2007 • 719 posts Report Reply

  • Russell Brown,

    __Randomly picking a thread to derail, we have a new Doctor.__

    Who looks pretty much how I'd imagine David Tennant's scruffy younger brother would.

    The thing is, it's nearly two days since the announcement, there's a war on in the Middle East, and it's still the top story on the Guardian website.

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 22850 posts Report Reply

  • giovanni tiso,

    That's nothing. "Girl, 12, sends 300 sex photos" has been among Stuff's "Today most viewed" since June last year.

    Wellington • Since Jun 2007 • 7473 posts Report Reply

  • Lx,

    Randomly picking a thread to derail, we have a new Doctor.

    Who looks pretty much how I'd imagine David Tennant's scruffy younger brother would.

    David Tennant's scruffy and more dangerous-to-know younger brother.

    Wellington • Since Apr 2007 • 24 posts Report Reply

  • Peter Darlington,

    Randomly picking a thread to derail...

    And on the derailing theme, Ron Asheton is dead, damn :(

    Nelson • Since Nov 2006 • 949 posts Report Reply

  • Russell Brown,

    And on the derailing theme, Ron Asheton is dead, damn :(

    There's a thread for the paying of respects here ...

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 22850 posts Report Reply

  • Craig Ranapia,

    The thing is, it's nearly two days since the announcement, there's a war on in the Middle East, and it's stillthe top story on the Guardian website.

    I take your point, but at least The Guardian (whether you agree with the editorial line or not) actually has serious and substantive foreign affairs coverage.

    Meanwhile, here at home, the Catholic Church that couldn't get outraged fast or loud enough over an episode of South Park is not so much about this:

    An Israel support group has condemned a Catholic priest who splattered red paint over a memorial toformer Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.

    Father Gerard Burns, the parish priest of Te Ngakau Tapu in Porirua, smeared the Wellington memorial to the late Mr Rabin with a mixture of a drop of his blood and paint.

    His actions were part of a 1000-strong protest in Wellington yesterday against Israel's air and ground offensive in Gaza. The demonstrators were calling on the New Zealand Government to end its neutral stance.

    [...] Catholic Church spokeswoman Lyndsay Freer said priests were entitled to their individual views. The New Zealand church's stance echoed Pope Benedict's address last week. "We feel that in the interests of peace and dignity dialogue must take place, and the killing must stop, from both sides."

    Archbishop John Dew said it was too early to decide whether any action would be taken over Father Burns' protest.

    Despite The Herald's headline, I don't think you necessarily have to be an "Israel backer" to say this is sick and fucked up. A position Archbishop Dew might be a little less equivocal about if I expressed my disgust at the Catholic Church's shameful history of institutional anti-Semitism, enabling sexually abusive clergymen, and public policy positions that are widely opposed by desecrating memorials to prominent Catholics.

    North Shore, Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 12370 posts Report Reply

  • giovanni tiso,

    An Israel support group has condemned a Catholic priest who splattered red paint over a memorial toformer Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.

    He did what?!

    Wellington • Since Jun 2007 • 7473 posts Report Reply

  • 3410,

    I don't think you necessarily have to be an "Israel backer" to say this is sick and fucked up.

    Oh, please.
    This is "sick and fucked up". Paint on a monument? A little less so, IMO.

    Auckland • Since Jan 2007 • 2618 posts Report Reply

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