Posts by Hilary Stace
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The thing about Coronation Street is that it goes back almost to the very beginning of TV in New Zealand and we need some TV security in our ever-changing lives.
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I do hope Coronation Street is still there in the future - even after Ken Barlow and Emily Bishop are finally pensioned off.
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I'm looking forward to that, Damian. Can you also give tips on how non-gardeners can grow things in Wellington's gales, and maybe also how to clean out a 40 year old fishpond without disturbing some monster goldfish. (One seems almost as big as the neighbourhood cats that come to watch and drink from the pond - to keep on theme)
I've been dipping into Barbara Kingsolver's Animal mineral vegetable which is a wonderful year long gardening book.
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I'm finding it hard to read this thread without taking an antihistamine.
But here's something gentle
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I think it helped understand what happened to have watched Lisa Williams, Touched by an Angel (or even dare I say it Sensing Murder). The characters all died in the initial plane crash. But according to Lisa Williams and others there can be problems to moving on - to the light/heaven or whatever. Some take a while to accept they are dead. You also have to examine your life and eventually do some restorative justice/ redemption stuff. That was what apparently happened for 6 seasons (not that I watched any until the last week). Most of them were then ready to move once Jack (was that his name? the one with the plug and the hot pool and the father with the unsubtle name) finally died/accepted they had all died in the crash.
It was all a big joke on the Lost ie the non believers, who were taking it all as something logical and this worldly. It's American after all.
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MP Carmel Sepuloni investigates PEDA.
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I found out what happened at the end of Lost. As I haven't watched one episode in 6 years it didn't mean much to me. But sounded interesting. Sort of timely.
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Wonderful to see all these first time posters. Russell, did that piece run on TV1 news? I missed it.
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Last year I heard David Shand talk about the Royal Commission on Auckland Governance, of which he was a member. The Royal commission's findings - which were arrived at after a thorough and open process -all seemed very sensible and workable, with the only omission a recommendation on STV or other proportional voting system. Of course that was all thrown out and we have since seen a peculiar mix of hobby horses, political ideology and patchwork without any apparent coherent substance or direction.
Somewhere down the track there will be another royal commission type process and the cycle will start over. It's a bit like the history of Auckland's public transport system going back several decades. Something is all planned and ready to go and then there is a change of direction (government, council etc), so it isn't implemented and a couple of decades later the problems come to a head and another plan is made, and ...retracted.
Not that anywhere else in NZ seems to do these things any better.
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Russell, thanks for this tribute. In the mid 90s Paul came to advise the Dictionary of NZ Biography on the potential of getting such information on-line, which led to history.net and eventually Te Ara. I wasn't involved in those discussions but he was friendly, and generous with his time with the ordinary workers too. Ditto with various digital information seminars at the National Library.
Hello Allison.