Posts by Raymond A Francis
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Three sons, two daughter-in laws
I asked the French one if she was going to take our family name, glad to she said ( I have always thought of her as my daughter anyway) but interestingly in France as a woman your legal name is the one you are born with
Second d-i-l has double barrelled the two surnames
Different strokes for different folks
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Bose earphones a must (bought on Trademe) and be nice to the parents of young children as it is unlikely they are having a good day
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Southerly: Now I Am Permitted, in reply to David Haywood,
Great to see you back and this is the very best news ( Selwyn District consents rather than in the bogus Chch ones)
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Hard News: Kitchen Hacks, in reply to Tom Semmens,
put tit on low the night before and when you get up you have lovely, soft oats.
This just has to be a winner
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Hard News: Kitchen Hacks, in reply to BenWilson,
This I have to try, does it work on all cans?
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Like the thought of American styled BBQ pulled beef/pork but can't be arsed sitting by a fire powered BBQ for 12+hours
Put the meat, covered in your preferred rub , in a slow cooker and apply liquid smoke half way through the process
This will give you results that are as good as the real thing -
Hard News: The War Stories, in reply to Islander,
I know that Islander, like you a fair number of local Maori are whanau (Tumaru and Te Maihroa clan) or have some sort of connection
The whiteness is based on the census figures
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Hard News: The War Stories, in reply to BenWilson,
Hard to believe but the local paper claims via a book written by a local boy that Waimate ex residents are more than 1% of the army
Not bad for a small town that is one of the whitest in the country (not that last fact is worth celebrating) but rather the hard time that we had in the 1980s -
Up Front: Gathered Together, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
I agree, how people organise their own lives is their business, has always been my position
If they want to get married, great, if not, so what
That same sex (and all the other varieties) now have the same legal rights is something for all of us to feel good about -
Good to see that the majority of parliamentarians can show some good sense once in a while despite some nasty opposition
On the other hand I wonder just how may same sex marriages there will be as apparently not may went into Civil Unions (anybody know the figures Google doesn’t seem to know)
Less and less heterosexuals have been availing themselves of their rights, so it will be interesting to see how the .07% (12000+ in the last counted census) same sex living together get hitched