Posts by Ian Dalziel
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Crater Christchurch....
This Proposal for the abolition of Banks Peninsula District and its inclusion in Christchurch City: Commission's findings and decisions might be of historic interest - on a smaller scale.
and this too
this 'Urban Development Strategy' proposal shows - to me anyway - that plans for for developing greater Chchch don't really fit with the Banks Peninsula set up/lifestyle and geography.From memory we never had a say in it - The Local Govt Commission and Bob parker stitched it all up...
well originally Chchch voters were against it, but then the Banks Peninsula Council voted itself out of existence, and about 65% of Banks peninsula residents who voted, voted for amalgamation.
more info here
and hereStatistics department has some interesting things to say about 'what constitutes a city'
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Hard News: Some reprehensible bullshit, in reply to Ben Ross,
on the road to…. Damascus?
Sunday Star Times on page 3….. [We have Judith]
…and page 9
I especially like the photo of Judith with Cam and Carrick behind her in their balaclavas… – some kind of jolly hijab jape perhaps? -
Hard News: Some reprehensible bullshit, in reply to Robyn Gallagher,
portal loo...
...secret hidden sex doors
Not just doors then,
but 'sexits', surely?ensuite as....
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Capture: By Night, in reply to Nora Leggs,
by Jove...
imposter
maybe not a moon,
maybe a planet?
...it looks like one of
the glass giants. -
Hard News: Friday Music: Memories of a…, in reply to Robyn Gallagher,
mashup of...
like this?
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Joe Wylie,
NZ’s sovereignty
But that's a contestable construct, too, isn't it?
"legal enough" is I believe the phrase du jour
But there is still stage 2 to go...
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Imagine the regular grief and outrage if Forestry was an Olympic sport...
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somefin' for da yoof?
...so what about a free running
Parkour steeplechase course?I'm not gonna push Archery
Fletchers have enough work.... -
Hard News: Park Life, in reply to Russell Brown,
life's a pitch...
There’s some use of artificial pitches...
Speaking of 'artificial pitches' - we are saddled with a tone=deaf Government that is continually changing the playing fields and shifting the goalposts!
...not to mention their wilful misinterpretations of the rules.I wonder if 'Barry' and John might forgo their Maui links link-up and fly in for a round or two at Chamberlain Park this Christmas, that would seal the deal...
Did you know that in golf slang a golfer who goes from bunker to bunker is known as a 'Saddam Hussein'.
Oh those yanks!
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Hard News: Dirty Politics, in reply to Joe Wylie,
the abasement tapes...
Key’s crass invoking of the old death cult aspect of ANZAC is an attempt to subvert what independence we have left.
Independence?
There's been an American military presence
and base occupying space in Chchch since the '50s...