Posts by Ian Dalziel

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  • Hard News: Most Discursive Website, in reply to Hebe,

    Baying at the moon...

    Post Laureate

    Why thanks Hebe, but I think the only laurels I shall be resting on are through the Looking Glass Bush (Coprosma Repens, Taupata, the NZ Laurel)...

    Unless of course you mean post-laureate or the after laureate, fossicker in dregs, leavings, lees and sediment - all hail the day of the remains, here comes da sludge!

    Christchurch • Since Dec 2006 • 7953 posts Report

  • Hard News: Most Discursive Website, in reply to Russell Clarke,

    in pelite company...

    That's not gneiss

    Shale be right...
    We're a flinty lot in Christ cherts
    but don't spark at loose talc...

    Do what thou wilt...

    a boisterous and disputatious rabble...

    Bloody Rabelais - looks like another Gargantuan feed of Pantagruel again...

    Christchurch • Since Dec 2006 • 7953 posts Report

  • Hard News: Most Discursive Website, in reply to JacksonP,

    Gabbro, Gabbro, Hey!

    It's just norite!
    Ahh, Lambchop.

    I'd have thought it was more plutonic...

    Christchurch • Since Dec 2006 • 7953 posts Report

  • Capture: Christchurch: Last One Standing,

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    a grave concern...
    Awaiting the epitaph righters -
    Cemetery, Reserve Tce, Lyttelton...

    Christchurch • Since Dec 2006 • 7953 posts Report

  • Capture: Christchurch: Last One Standing,

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    orphaned oasis...

    The damage to everyday life is what has affected me most strongly.

    Houseless backyard, Fitzgerald Ave...

    Christchurch • Since Dec 2006 • 7953 posts Report

  • Hard News: Most Discursive Website, in reply to Emma Hart,

    this place rocks...

    It builds on what’s gone before it, becomes part of the whole, and provides a foundation for whatever comes next.

    Oh, now you're just being sedimental...
    ;- )

    Christchurch • Since Dec 2006 • 7953 posts Report

  • Hard News: Most Discursive Website,

    an award for short attention spans?
    Congratulations on the poll dancing prize... Excellent news, that this site has been recognised as the soul of digression, the home of waffly irony with no lack of prolix 'n' politics...
    I'm thinking Islander's wonderful “circumperambulation” has found the perfect new home, here at heart of circumlocutory rambling, fluent reasoning and meandering streams of consciousness...

    Discurs...
    :- )

    Christchurch • Since Dec 2006 • 7953 posts Report

  • Capture: Christchurch: Last One Standing, in reply to Alex Efimoff,

    Orienteering help for out-of-towners...

    Central Christchurch

    Cashel Street, above Madras St looking west in fact - that's Bedford Row to the left of the photo (next to the new IRD building) CTV was to the right and the Grand Chancellor is the distant high point (now much more skeletal looking) ...
    Great photos Alex.

    Christchurch • Since Dec 2006 • 7953 posts Report

  • Hard News: How long the leash on the…, in reply to Rich Lock,

    tell us man...

    That would be because the shape now forms the sigil odegra in the language of the Black Priesthood, and means 'Hail the Great Beast, Devourer of Worlds'.

    I thought that was the M25?
    The Circle Line looks like a bad seagull* drawing to me...

    *Hmmm... Arch Economagical Mage John Key would probably pronounce that as sigil...

    Christchurch • Since Dec 2006 • 7953 posts Report

  • Hard News: The Next Labour Leader,

    crowd proofing services…
    comment rendered redundant
    - you are very quick!
    :- )

    Christchurch • Since Dec 2006 • 7953 posts Report

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