Posts by Paul Campbell
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We live in a lovely 100 year old house in Dunedin, it's a traditional villa with a modern upstairs plonked on top of it. We've lived here for 12 years now, our kids have grown up, gone to Uni, and this year left home/town/country - despite them having been flatting for a couple of years that whole empty nest thing is real.
We live in a nice upper-middle class neighbourhood just above the Town Belt, it continues into the gully in our front yard full of native bush, Toitu flows through there too. Our house is set back from the street, it's sheltered, and a haven for native birds, Kereru and Tui are common visitors.
Despite rattling around in our house now we're very settled, it's a wonderful comfortable safe space.
Yesterday we were burgled, I'd gone out in the afternoon for 45 minutes (I work at home) and came back to find the house turned over, stuff everywhere, and a carefully packed up set of our bags hidden in the bushes behind out mailbox - including two guitars, Xbox, laptop, 2 tablets, jewelery, ..... My daughter's snowboard is still missing. Obviously the perp was on foot and was going to come back for the rest.
After more than half an hour on hold calling the police yesterday the crime scene guy came around promptly this today, spent much of the morning, grabbed fingerprints and, to my surprise, DNA - they only run it if none of the prints come back positive.
So today we're not feeling comfortable in our nice little home, my partner was reluctant to leave it alone even though we've secured the offending window, we feel a bit like prisoners in our home. I'm sure it will pass but it's not a nice feeling.
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Yeah they must have sold 1000 of those shirts as a fundraiser for Nicky, I still find I have to explain mine
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and it's built on fill
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I wish I had some experience to share here, I'm pretty sure I've never been to a gig there - though strangely I do have a decided memory of what it looks like inside .....
Mind you we really should have done this exact thread for the Cook .... though probably that should have been done years before it closed .... most of my Dunedin music memories are from there
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There was a weird thing about that time when Slater claimed that there was an insidious evil left wing plot that he'd uncovered to drive him insane .... is all this made up stuff what he was rabbiting on about? seems what was reallly happening was that he was being trolled into insanity by his own people knowing he was a soft touch if you fed his paranoia
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And from today's ODT .... um ....
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Tremain again (in the right thread)
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Tremain again .... oops wrong thread
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this cartoon, that my phone won't let me upload says a lot for me:
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Today's Tremain
