Posts by John Farrell
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Phillip - whose idea of "good taste" are we following? And isn't it more likely that ignorance, rather than idiocy, is at work here?
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Other places have already been "supersized". Dunedin City was amalgamated with 4 local boroughs, and Silverpeaks county, the Ocean Beach Domain Board, and The Dunedin Drainage and Sewage Board, in 1989. Mind you, Dunedin City has been swallowing local boroughs, and the occasional county, since the early 1900s.
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An interesting sideline on the undie 500.....on Monday I searched google blogs for postings on that subject. I found this listing:
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My daughter tells me she and 11 other girls have a van to take on the Undie 500 to Dunedin this
weekend. I feared the Undie 500 had been crushed by Police and University threats. While working in
Hamilton last week Jonathon Carver of ...but when I went to the blog, there was no post.......
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As an attender of the Dunedin Farmer's Market (on Saturdays when I'm not working), I do feel for you.
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Wow. Will whaleoil be next?
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We left there 2 years ago - we spent a night there when we were in Auckland last October.
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I was living in Helensville at the time. If you think Auckland is small, Dunedin is mindblowing. A few months after we moved here, my mother in law died. The lady my wife asked to look after our mail while we went to the funeral in Christchurch turned out to be one of her cousins....
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Just to show you what a small world it is, Jackie...I knew one of the people who helped lay out the garden at your father's house, up by the Shelly Beach turnoff.
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It's a very strange thing, when your house starts to rock and roll. And it just keeps going....as it strengthens, you head for the nearest doorway, and stand there, listening to an odd tapping noise, and thinking about the tile roof above you. Even after the shaking stops, your legs have a rubbery feel.....
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Thankfully my memories of kidney stones are 25 years old......the doctor thought it might be appendicitis, I remember fainting from the pain, and then it all stopped, when I passed the thing. Being able to eat, after 4 days impromptu fasting, was a wonderful thing.