Posts by Chris Waugh
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Looking out the window, safely inside.
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Looking out eastwards... Looks like the county town's under water.
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Bad storm coming, better run to the top of the mountain. Or, perhaps, ignore Mr Garrett and run inside.
(I've taken photos from this exact angle so many times.... I need to get out more)
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Capture: Going Walkabout in Sydney, in reply to JacksonP,
You can feel the warmth in there. Lovely.
Yeah, even the blues are glowing. Nice shots, Sofie.
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My soundtrack doesn't involve much birdsong at the moment, but this well-digging machine with its rhythmic whir-punch-clank. It's not loud, and oddly comforting...
And that blue sky was so nice to see... Beijing dawned grey, murky, filthy and stinkingly humid, but when we crossed over the mountains we could see clear across the basin.
Unfortunately I've got paperwork to catch up on...
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Not in Sydney, no flowers or birds....
Venus transit observers. I don't know how they hoped to see anything through the thick haze that enveloped Beijing today, but they seemed very happy and excited.
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Speaker: The Voyage: On Interpreting and…, in reply to Mr Magoo,
And tell me how you fair buying great swathes of Chinese farmland next time, eh?
Chinese people can't buy Chinese land. All land is either state-owned or collectively-owned. Foreigner investors in China can buy the same land use rights that Chinese people can buy, albeit with certain restrictions around national security or the national interest.
So, nice little red herring you've got there.
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Speaker: All aboard: The choice for…, in reply to andin,
The “City of god” is in Wiri
Ciudade de deus? Cool film, but something tells me that's not what Brian plans to build....
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Speaker: All aboard: The choice for…, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
Well, alright, fair enough. But I woulda thunk that if she were going to the trouble of travelling all this way to help drum up a bit of business, then surely Wellington's local rag could've had the decency to report a bit more on her trip, perhaps even send somebody along with the delegation to see what she got up to.
But the point I was trying to incoherently make was that the government could be doing a lot more about leading NZ into the future, but they're not. And the media could be helping with that, but they're not. And our business leaders could be helping with that, but where are they getting their information from?
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Capture: Going Walkabout in Sydney, in reply to JacksonP,
Nice. The pukeko was my wife's favourite NZ bird until my mum sent my daughter ABCs for Kiwis and my wife discovered "P for piwakawaka".
