Posts by Hebe
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".... a pit of their own filth when we leave them on their own for three weeks."
From where I'm sitting, with two 15-year-old males (Boys? Nah. Teens? Vaguely patronising and with bad connotations) at home, that goal seems very, very, very far off. They cook very well, play music, write songs, chop wood, speak multiple languages, write books, surf and are emotionally literate, but man are they filthy. So much so that we have negotiated one day a week when they don't HAVE to shower: "filthy Friday", a treasured ritual for the pair. God knows why, but then I have never been a boy.
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Hard News: My Food Bag: is it any good?, in reply to Russell Brown,
You hope there are follow-on ads, but maybe not. The key selling point of consumer PR is that it's a cheaper way into media than a conventional ad campaign. It will often be accounted to the client in terms of equivalent advertising hours.
Agreed. And a piece of editorial space can be so much more valuable than ad space, which people -- as desensitised as they are to sales pitches in a world full of them -- tend to flick over rather than read or watch.
Diverging slightly: I get very irate at the Press' practice of writing a story about an online business and still not providing the web address (it seems to be a way of pretending that the web is not real and entites on it do not really exist). That was the policy in the late '90s because the management believed mentioning dubdubdub adresses gave legimitacy to the opposition. Now it's pathetic.
After a couple of conversations recently with MSM people, I am increasingly bemused at the disconnect between the MSM and the web world; why? Is it that over the last decade I have increasingly adopted computer-based comms and working and the MSM people have not caught up. As an insatiably curious fact-gatherer all my life, I cannot understand why the web world is sneered at.
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Hard News: My Food Bag: is it any good?, in reply to BenWilson,
wastage is better than kids going hungry,
Satiation is impossible for teenage boys, I think. Mine say it doesn't matter how much they eat (usually unrefined wholegrains etc) they are never full nowadays. It's sad the mournful look of a teenage boy who can never feel his stomach is full (the pathos is rivalled only by a fat old labrador on a diet).
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Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime, in reply to Chris Waugh,
Everybody is responbsible for taking care of the flowers, plants and trees in the green land.
What a good sign. I have a pile of seeds from huge red hollyhocks and sunflowers I am planning to scatter in a guerrilla-gardening offensive on some empty sections/ abandoned houses hereabouts. I love the wildflower 'gardens' that are sprouting in Christchurch -- there are the sanctioned Greening The Rubble sites
(v good) and also the places here and there that are becoming wilderness gardens. -
Hard News: My Food Bag: is it any good?, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
On the subject of freebies, I noticed Grant Smithies' column in the SST was dedicated to a review of a (declared) freebie luxury camping experience.
All very nice, but given the rate card for a whole back page is probably in five figures, I wonder how the ad department feels about being undercut in this way?There are usually follow-on ads after a freebie. I'm told that the ad rate discounts in newspapers are particularly vicious these days, particularly for late placements that fill up a hole in the ratio.
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Hard News: My Food Bag: is it any good?, in reply to BenWilson,
the eldest would probably eat a near-adult portion some nights
My experience of teenage boys (on to number 3 and 4 now) is that they each eat approximately double that of their gourmand father from the ages of 15 untilt hey start paying for their own food. We have recently bought a double-door fridge monster to cope with the demand over next few years (though I also use it as a pantry for all sauces, flours, oils, drinks and spreads and anything likely to fall over in the cupboard -- it saves cleaning up after every 4 mag shake in the Port Hills).
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Hard News: Cultural Heroes and living memory, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
having spent an unconscionable amount of
impressionable time in a room with the
wall size hessian Hendrix FireplaceOn an LSD HDTV screen?
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Hard News: My Food Bag: is it any good?, in reply to Islander,
Nyum. I like Green and Black's Maya Gold: orangey and cinnamony and dark.....Now off to Holy Smoke for bacon.
Caught flounder last night in Wordsworth Street ;-) and that was good shown the frying pan briefly with lemon and butter.
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Capture: Cats Love Cameras, in reply to Nora Leggs,
Whispers of wickedness?
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Who are you calling four eyes?
