Posts by Jacqui Dunn
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Hard News: Hip in the Square, in reply to Melanie,
I popped down and asked politely if they'd mind changing the music, but they must have identified me as the female enemy and refused.
Generally people are pretty good if you ask nicely.
Heh. That's right, but I suppose if a) they were having a woman = bad night, and b) they didn't have any other CDs, you were dead out of luck.
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Hard News: Hip in the Square, in reply to Melanie,
I reckon there would have been a minimum of 200 apartment dwellers sharing in the joy.
And no-one thought to lend them another CD?
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Well, hello Stephen. What a start to a discussion!
Perhaps I’m insufficiently po-faced.
I certainly got that impression, but smiles are hard to find hiding behind words. They can often be found at the end, though. :))
Perhaps like this from Steeve Coogan against Top Gear’s lazy racism?
That’s some a-grade diss right there.
Very.
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Hard News: Hip in the Square, in reply to Melanie,
The movement for Father's Rights had the Crazy Frog CD on repeat outside my window. Loudly. Very loudly for two hours.
May one ask why your window? Was that "collateral damage"?
By the way, I sympathise, having been forced to call Noise Control a couple of times when neighbours at least 3 properties and a whole street-width away had hip-hop going non-stop from 6pm until NC stopped them at around 3am. It wasn't the full-on loud that got to us, it was the bass and regular (and tedious as a result) low-level drum volume when all else was quiet. After each track there would be a silence, but filling that silence was me going "Please don't put another one on, please." But after that pause: click, boom, click, boom, click, boom.
Like Chinese water-torture for the ears.
I should add though, that Avondale is definitely not central city.
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Hard News: Hip in the Square, in reply to Simon Grigg,
Thank you for that. So....where'd you come from?
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OnPoint: Election 2011: GO!, in reply to giovanni tiso,
Have you tried potted citronella?
Not potted. I'm just off to get a bottle of citronella essential oil. Stinks, of course, but works wonders. I anoint the corners of the bed, and put a dab on the curtains near where the window is open.
Failing that, I do have a mosquito net, (most effective bundled up on a chair), but it's so airless at night right now. Even a thin net would keep what air movement there is, off me. Don't want that!
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As someone who appeared, along with around a dozen others, at a hearing about a large and lovely pohutukawa - nearly a century old - which is getting in the way of car-parking in the new development in Rosebank Rd, I can certainly attest to the last two posters being so right. The developer in this case got the "right" to clear over 25 acres of ex-market garden, provided he kept two companion trees - an oak, and the pohutukawa. His lawyer, at the hearing to appeal the council's (non-notifiable prior) decision to allow the felling of the pohutukawa, which the developer applied to do once the site was devoid of any other foliage, actually said it was agreed Mr X would keep the trees if he could clear-fell the rest of the site, but that he didn't say for how long!
And now the man has appealed the decision yet again! Will that tree survive? Heaven only knows. -
OnPoint: Election 2011: GO!, in reply to Danielle,
mainly because I’m terrible at thinking on my feet. Except to make dumb jokes.
Oh no! My lost twin!
Recordari: It's so hard to sleep in this heat. 2 a.m. night before last, despite being dog-tired when I went to bed, I was still wide awake, trying to locate a mosquito - do you know, the little buggers hide when you turn the light on!
I'm so disappointed I won't be meeting some of you face to face today.
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OnPoint: Election 2011: GO!, in reply to Sacha,
we're less argumentative in real life
My goodness, I should hope so. I cry when thwarted. Be warned!
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OnPoint: Election 2011: GO!, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
Bugger - someone else I'm not going to have the pleasure of poisoning.
So it is shared food? ;))
I don't know what happened with Ian, and as I don't often go to other blogs except when linked (yes, I know, novice!), still don't know. But there are many on PAS whose opinions I follow with interest; many sane minds offering sane thoughts; many offering challenging ideas, and much, much humour. People disappear for ages, only to reappear suddenly, and on goes the discussion. So I'm hoping we won't have seen/heard the last of him.