Posts by Biobbs
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Capture: Got the blues, in reply to ChrisW,
Good to know the site too. Do you know Kendrick Smithyman's poem 'Tomarata'? I've been to similar places perhaps in the North, but feel I know much about (Lake) Tomarata the place as itself as well as more broadly from this great poem. Actually going there is on the list too.
Thanks for the link to the poem Chris - had not heard of that at all. Always learning something new when reading PAS!!
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Capture: Got the blues, in reply to ChrisW,
But then, aha! - I see evidence of a (SI) West Coast context for such a photo from a previous post of yours.
Oops, I'd forgotten that I'd posted that other photo. Not meaning to be repetitious. But I do love my harakeke. And my raupo. And all my other water plants. That particular harakeke is at Lake Tomarata, north of Auckland, and is some of the tallest I've ever seen, with those very soft and upright leaves.
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Harakeke in the blue...
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Hard News: Friday Music (on a Thursday):…, in reply to Russell Brown,
She was cool. And I think it was unusual at the time for a young woman to be writing and performing her own songs.
I liked her really early stuff best of all. From Foreign Affairs onwards they started putting that benighted 80s reverb sound on her albums that ruined so much other pop of the time, but this song was exquisite. Love that lovely pause and chord change at the chorus.
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Hard News: Music: In before Christmas, in reply to David Hood,
The other bit of Christmas song trivia that I was reading recently (I think in a Gaurdian article) was that for making the video for Fairytale of New York, they hired the NYPD pipe band (as there was no NYPD choir) but being pipers not singers they did not know the words to Gallway Bay. In the video they are mouthing the words to the only song they all knew, the Mickey Mouse Club theme.
There's a fascinating BBC doco on the making of Fairytale of New York on YT, that mentions that and has a whole lot more interesting info about it (like how Matt Dillon came to be involved in the video, and saved the Pogues from being arrested when they were filming the 'drunk tank' scene in a real police station).
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Field Theory: The Force will be with…, in reply to BenWilson,
O, by Toutatis! It better be good.
I'd settle for just 'better than Prometheus'. Not holding my breath, though.
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Capture: The Castle, in reply to Jarno van der Linden,
I see your flora and raise you some harakeke and friends. Near Totara Lagoon.
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Just another long-time lurker, occasional poster saying thanks for providing PAS for us. I've learned so much.
For us ex-pats, this sane window and the perspective it provides into our homeland is especially cherished.
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Hard News: Media3: Whistleblower Season,
Truth: an oxymoron, with a moron in charge,
Give a new meaning to the phrase "I promise to tell the Truth "
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Legal Beagle: Kim Dotcom: We need an Inquiry!, in reply to Sacha,
I don't know why we don't have that? Has it ever been considered?
Me neither. And I don't know.
What are the relative roles in NZ of the Police and the Crown Prosecutors in deciding whether a prosecution should proceed in indicatable cases? Is that one of the things the Crown Prosecutors are supposed to do? (Questions asked here by someone who cheerfully admits complete ignorance about these things). Presumably in summary offences it is solely the Police who decide whether or not charges are laid, but is the CP a gatekeeper for more serious criminal offences? In a really major case, does the Solicitor-General also fulfil this role?
