Posts by Raymond A Francis
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Thanks Craig
Interesting to get the facts on the Brownlee case, it was not a pensionerand Brownlee went down the stairs hmmmm does not sound quite so bad does it
Still as you say. "not palatable"Now let me make it clear I don't like Mallard, bad mouthing ,sports mad bullies are not my style
But I do like the way he took ownership of what happened, no whinning, no excuses, no buts -
What is it with you Aucklanders,
When did you last have a mayor who was not a nutbar and now you are recycling the worst of them -
Well I for one really enjoyed the use of the Wide shot as it gave a much more natural picture and showed what variations could be played and were
The normal close in shots may give a players view of play but if you actually go to a game that's not what you see and that is what I am used to.....don't have sky so it has been sometime since I watched whole game on TV -
Random Play: Diana of Wails: The…,
Passed me by to a certain extent
I was told as I walked out of my mother's hospital room
We had pulled the plug and were just waiting for her to die, which she did that night"Such is life"
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Southerly: In Praise of Arthur,
That took me back a looooong time ,when a short back and sides cost...$1 about the last time anyone other than my wife cut my hair
Jimmy Jones cut my hair then and I am pretty sure I took one of my sons to him before he retired so that three generations would have been under his shears
He as rumoured to sell condoms but not sure about that
I am sure the smell of bay rum would take me back to those inocent days of rugby, racing and beer -
Hard News: Feckless Solutions,
I do not see why we all have to own this problem and go on a guilt trip
But I di think we need to look for sensible solutions
And taking children away from the percieved "bad parents" is not a track we should go down, it is just so stupidI think the hospital questions is a good start, compared with some of the things they do to you there that is small beer
My "big idea" is to put more money into the Plunket Nurses so that they can do more visits and have more time with young families
I am from a middle class background (or worse) but when our sons were young remember the plunket visits as a bit scarey but so helpful
Any reasons why this will not help -
Hard News: Phew, what a scorcher?,
Thought you were talking about the weather here
19.5 C at 11 oclock
But the month is said to be the coldest in 30 years
My point being the weather changes day by day year by year
It is the long term changes that count and while there is some evidense that it is getting warmer shouting out "climate change" every time something changes weatherwise is not helpful -
Random Play: It's Not Easy Being Green-ish,
Yes I agree the only way we are going to make progress on this thing is to make people pay the true price of the energy they use
As long as the government keep their sticky little fingers out of the mix
So if it is true and we are running out of oil the price will go up and up etc
My worry is what is NZ going to do for money when the tourists can't afford to fly here and our agricultural produce is priced off the world market.
Taken in each others laundry -
Random Play: It's Not Easy Being Green-ish,
One of the things I notice with this whole debate "guilt trip"is that it is always everybody else who must change
Dairy farming... bad, mining fossil water , not paying for free water etc
City people using huge amounts of energy cart their food to them and their waste away plus just driving around in SUVs
The experts flying around the world ( I had to laugh at the woman in the "Listener" who is doing just that while living in an uninsulted house)
No large city is sustainable
So is the answer that we disperse to the country and live on a acre section and eat only what we produce or is with in walking distance? -
Are the good old Amstrads, also my first coputer although mine wa a tape drive and oh so slow to load
I tried your survey and had trouble entering the 1 to 7 sections, well more than a couple of entries