Posts by Geoff Lealand
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I grew up with black/iron sands on Taranaki beaches, so there us something special about clean, white sand. There are some great beaches of this sort up north, where I am currently.
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This is almost therapuetic. I thought I was the only one who has troubles with small talk (medium talk is ok; big talk is great). My daughter increasingly comments on my social awkwardness but there are situations that resemble hell eg meeting MPs or, recently, making a hurried tour of the Home & Garden Show. My strategy: walk quickly, avoid all eye contact, reject all offers to sell you dodgy kitchen gadgets or spa pools.
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Hard News: Winning the RWC: it's complicated, in reply to Lucy Stewart,
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Hard News: Winning the RWC: it's complicated, in reply to 3410,
More specifically, half of the Peoplemeter households? Whether they accurately represent the diversity of the NZ poulation is a moot point. I think not--most would have been tucked up in bed long before the game began.
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It was a magnificent game. I did my bit for enlightening readers up north about the meaning of rugby for New Zealand, in my first guest blog for [www.cstonline.tv] a week or so back.
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I wonder if the RWC choirs have been tempted to sing "Australians all let us ring Joyce. For she is young and free.."
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Hard News: The Sound of Music, in reply to John Armstrong,
I was at that game too and it was great but, at a risk of being called an old grump, some of the crowd antics greatly annoyed me--especially those attention-seekers who turn their back on the game and shout inanities to their mates in the cheap seats.
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You win ;-)
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Yikes! Maybe we need to breed some groin-less All Blacks.
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Maybe, as someone suggested (Cavanagh, I think), the core audience for RNZ is pretty damn conservative and not as liberal as we might think it is . The problem with The Panel is that it calls on folk who already have ample access to the public discourse and some are outright reactionaries (Hooten, Boag , Franks, McCormack). Time to dump the whole damn thing, I reckon.