Posts by Hebe
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Hard News: Dressing for the Road, in reply to Alice Ronald,
The test will come in a few months after the road works around the bridge are complete.
A bright sticker put on every passenger door window at warrant of fitness time would have many people aware of the new cycle lane configuration within six months.
I am shopping lazily for a bike for pottering around the neighbourhood and going to "town", and have been eyeing the Archi: how do you find it goes? I am waiting to buy until the endless road works in St Martins/Opawa/ Beckenham are mostly done because the holes and dips in the road around here are lethal and every way I leave home has major works on the route. I'm hoping the ways will clear a bit by spring.
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Chamois undies! Cycle shorts are bad enough -- I never imagined such underpinnings. I shall never look at a lycra'd cyclist again without sniggering.
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Me and beloved (we're heterosexual committedly de facto) were musing last night how the passing of the bill is a grand thing -- and how surprisingly moving it is for us as a pair of serial marriage-killers (note I did not say serial-marriage killers). In some way the new law redefines the whole marriage deal into something we could subscribe to. Possibly; there would be rainbows, and my best (male) friend would have to be the bridesman. Probably we won't get around to it though because commitment is a state of mind, not a certificate. I am very happy that all have the opportunity to marry, or not.
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Hard News: Media3: Panic or Peril?, in reply to Jackie Clark,
You are right to be concerned Jackie. Parents like myself who do not allow their children open access to MSM culture until they have the tools to handle it and make informed choices are now considered strange.
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Gudrun Gisela,
Popped in to have a wee look
I drove the street twice yesterday; because I could. I cannot yet find the words without cliches: more wrecked buildings remain than I expected, massive tangles of metal and concrete, vast openesses with unexpected views (the Post Office clock tower in the Square from the High and Manchester corner; the back of the Christchurch Club in Latimer Square has glowing autumnal trees and a garden), banks of containers, the dinosaur diggers and huge trucks everywhere. It's heartening that the street is open, weird that I can't call into Smith's.
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Greg reports a monarch butterfly swooping around his head in the sunshine at the Mollett St market site today lunchtime. Not big, but those moments of beauty are great.
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Hard News: Thatcher, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
I don't at all appreciate being credited with other people's views, especially when they are so divergent from my own.
I do appreciate -- and learn from -- the differing viewpoints commenters hold: I believe many people desire the same outcomes in politics but their opinions on how to reach those goals vary. And that changing my opinion after hearing others' is a sign of strength, not weakness. As is the ability to apologise. I saw none of these EQ qualities in Margaret Thatcher or her governments.
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Hard News: Thatcher, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
A total fabrication by the Tory media
So it is: google confirms it! I have been well suckered. Still, my experience of working in such a group was not so far away from those stories that they stood out as untrue.
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Hard News: Thatcher, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
over the (ex-)Tweep who opined that Margaret Thatcher was a 'cunt' who should have been murdered decades ago.
How about you read my posts Craig rather than ascribing all your offended feelings to thingsI have not said or implied? I cannot be alone on PAS in finding your responses to disagreement with your view to be bullying and somewhat overbearingly sexist. One of the wonderful things about PAS is the relative lack of abusive postings: stop it now.
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Hard News: Thatcher, in reply to Russell Brown,
You did rather feel like The Enemy at the time
I guess I was briefly: I worked for CND for six months or so until I decided I was not a co-operative sort. It was a surprising education for me in the ways of the London left -- which didn't sit at all well with my lacksidaisical Kiwi version of politics. It was in the era of Lambeth council banning black rubbish bags and Haringey renaming manhole covers because of the sexism and racism supposedly implied. I left that experience with an aversion to ideologues of any shade.
A lasting interest and commitment for me from those years came from the mad cow/BSE disease and salmonella in eggs scandals. I was appalled by what was being done to the British food supply in the name of profit and started quietly researching it. Then returned to NZ and started gardening and growing organically, studying horticulture, and keeping watch on the creeping chemicalisation (probably not a word) of our farms and food supply. So Maggie can be credited with spurring me on to becoming an organic gardener.