Posts by Geoff Lealand
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Any chance of hearing the inside dirt on the ballet industry as a follow-up? Have your toes ever recovered?
I have always wondered too about the reason ballerinas have to stand on their tippy-toes. Why don't they just get taller ballerinas? :-)
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I know Camelot Court is a bit twee (especially the tin man in the office) but it is a good place to stay with a bunch of friends. There are uglier buildings in Chch--how did the Central Police Station cope? I have been told that Alice in Videoland came through unscathed (great!) but what of the other interesting shops/cafes in High Street?
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Is there a mayoral race of any kind in -- for example -- Wellington, Dunedin, Hamilton, Tauranga ... ?
Thanks, Philip. I went to a three hour long meet-the-candidates thing in Hamilton East last week, so have some sense of the possibilities. We have a lower quota of fruit-loops this time 'round but a few colourful candidates. Lisa Lewis is running for mayor but not sure what her policies are--but I like how Steve Braunias wrote about her assets in SST: about a large pair of breasts arriving at a function 'followed by their employer, Lisa Lewis'. For an ex-Nat MP Bob Simcock is a guy who seems to listen but I also like a young lawyer Julie Hardaker, who is also running for mayor.
In my ward (Hamilton East), the folk I am voting for are those who led a campaign against a local developer, who knocked over a historic brick wall and a row of huge trees, in an attempt to build more shops on one of the busiest intersections in Hamilton East. HCC have now been shown to have granted illegal permission to the developer and the Council may have to cough up costs.
We have The Rates Control Team--with a skillful flourish of a craft knife, they become The Rats Control Team. There is also the 'orrible Garry Mallet (former ACT president) who is running on a campaign of slashing funding but who is virtually invisible.
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@ Craig. I guess that 'football stadium' and 'collapse' have a certain resonance at the moment. :-)
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Delete Tich. Or was it Mick. Or maybe Beaky. Anyway, one of them died a wee while back but I doubt if the other band members noticed. ;-(
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Come, on guys! This is all getting out of hand!
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I agree, Bob, but who is going to pay for it ? And where do we park the trailer?
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Or six leaks in monthly boat? ;-)
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I hope too that they will promote the use of correct grammar and spelling in electronic postings, beginning with their own Graziella (oops..I almost wrote 'Gorilla')
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In Dunedin we drink the alcohol first, and then smash the bottle
Hamilton bogans eat the bottle and throw the beer away ;-)