Posts by Ian Dalziel
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Drachma Queens, they lost their marbles...
I'm thinking the Greeks should invoice someone for part profits from the British Museum's display of the 'Elgin Marbles'.
And perhaps a further small tax on all words and concepts of Greek origin still in use (Intellectual properties act of some kind) - everytime some American (or other Western person) goes on about 'Democracy' 10c goes in a jar, nek minnit!
Of course the takings on 'Hubris' would be now climbing, I'm sure... -
Hard News: That page doesn't exist ..., in reply to Hebe,
Grace allergy...
...what established modern Christchurch.
I forgot about John Gray...
For newcomers to our green, gray and gritty provincial hub, the library has this extensive chronology of the making of Chchch... -
Capture: Roamin' Holiday, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
Red Shield be right...
Gloriosa Rothschild Diana
That should throw up some interesting
Google search hits!
I read that the Gloriosa rothschildiana likes it 'moist but not soggy' and I suspect you'll not have much in the way of frosts up there... (impending mini-ice age notwithstanding!). -
Hard News: That page doesn't exist ..., in reply to Stephen Judd,
The City & the city...
...did you see this? What do you make of it?
it's a pretty good summation of how we got to here, from there...
That's Chchch(inatown, Jake...)Welcome aboard, do advise when you are shifted down and settled in, and perhaps we can extend some local hospitality (PAS style) ...
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Housing stock sold to Destiny Church!
Maybe that’s the next move…
I see Dr Lesley McTurk’s, soulless hand at work here as well, helping to remove the personal interface, dehumanising all processes – she did much the same thing when she was CEO (Town Clerk) in Chchch before she went to HNZ and we got Tony Marryatt…
Entropy writ large, with another round of drinks for those in the corporate boxes – they’re more like Goalpost shitters!<afterthought> Maybe HNZ is trying to claw back the $1 million odd they lost trying to evict the Pomare women...
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Rupert Murdoch liquidates The ORFU!
Well, he may as well have... while the Highlanders Super Rugby franchise is a separate legal entity, it was the precursor to Otago's spending spree, and 'super rugby' has lived parastically off the provincial club's years of graft... -
Capture: EQNZ Remembrance, in reply to Lilith __,
Apoidea avoider...
A couple of weeks ago a bumblebee flew
up my trouser-leg and got stucktwo words...
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Southerly: Village People, in reply to Sacha,
A disability advisor for the Christchurch City Council Cam Scott says there are no quick fixes to create universal accessibility and unfortunately that is making some people angry.
This is the same Council who held up consents for small businesses trying to get restarted in tiny premises who did not have disability toilets/access - but it is ok for the Council to override that in its own premises... nice double standards!
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Hard News: The Mega Conspiracy, in reply to Steve Barnes,
They call me Mr Quay...
well quell surpreeze, Mr Gitsome used to work for Maersk.
Quite, his background is in the freight side, not the port side...
Auckland has a cuckoo in the nest, he is there to dismantle the old Wharf culture and hand it to the shippers on a platter (or in a container), Aucklanders (the owners) will be the ultimate losers, both in cashflow and karma...One rates a city by how it treats its workers!
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Capture: Roamin' Holiday, in reply to Russell Brown,
Also, Colin McCahon’s toilet.
I hear his works on paper fetch
a pretty price these days....