Posts by JLM
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Not sure how relevant this is to this discussion, but under the current fpp electorate vote system who wins a local electorate can be a bit of a lottery, and plenty of people get in on a lot less than 50% of the vote. So winning an electorate may be more prestigious in current thinking (not mine, I add), but it's also more random. I can see the potential for two streams within a parliamentary party not really working well together because there is very little crossover.
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Southerly: Village People, in reply to JLM,
I worry that it’s easier to go and find your own little cave these days, than to learn to co-exist with your close neighbour.
By "your" I meant "our" of course, the generic kiwi person alone response, though typified by my husband which is why we now live happily in the country - with delightful neighbours who we know better than those we had in town.
And I've worked out what I really like about the photo - it's the lack of cars of course, highlighted by the solitary specimen. Is there car-parking somewhere else, or is everyone just away at work?
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I'm trying to work out why I find your picture so appealing, David, and have decided that it's a sort of faux nostalgia I have to guard against. Faux because I now live on an acre two km from a village centre, with a horse paddock in front, and a golf course behind, and cherish that space and distance.
But I've lived cheek by jowl with others and loved it, especially down a private lane when ours kids were growing up, when the sense of community was terrific, and you didn't have to worry about where the kids were because they were always "in the drive" somewhere. And my favourite holidays have been in that tight setting, from a bedroom and kitchen cupboard in a 3 family bach, tenting in DOC camping grounds, staying with a friend in a rural Nova Scotian trailer park, even gods help me two weeks in Coombe Haven Holiday Park in East Sussex.
What is bearable and even enjoyable on a temporary basis is very different longer term, I know, but I worry that it's easier to go and find your own little cave these days, than to learn to co-exist with your close neighbour. I guess my ideal would be something like this and the developers' triumphalism at seemingly winning the density battle in the Auckland spatial plan worries me as a sign of things to come in Christchurch.
None of which has anything to do with your current predicament, just my own obsession with simple living and tiny houses, so apologies. You will love your relocation, I'm sure. Best of luck with it.
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My daughter has just put this very timely cat-choosing link on her fb page. Seems to resonate with the celebration that is going on here, and hey, it's Ursula Leguin!
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Capture: Cats Love Cameras, in reply to JoJo,
Our other best cat (long ago) was called JoJo, so it gave me a slight turn to see your name in the last post slot : ).
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And Ben, who is still here, and pushing 18 himself now. A tummy tickle cat par excellence. Under the armpits guaranteed to engender bliss...
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The cream of all our cats, Frances, a few months before she walked out the door and died somewhere unknown in our bush, age 17 plus.
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OnPoint: Dear Labour Caucus, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
If Shearer can sit on Mallard and other interjectors hard enough to get Labour to maintain a dignified silence in the face of such juvenile ad homs (hard call, I know) they’ll both show Key up, and improve parliamentary behaviour astronomically.
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Oh, it did. That was easy. Here's the context. They stopped for a moment while I ducked in.
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Capture: City Scenes, in reply to Kebabette,
I love street art & graf but have a special place in my heart for the posters gone skody.
This is probably my favourite of all the photos I have taken because it was so opportunistic
(Dunno if it's going to load or not, so the link is here
