Posts by Russell Brown
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The tree at the corner of our deck has flowered well this year. It’s nice to have there.
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More to come, but here are a couple of shots of the early bloomers down at St Mary’s Bay.
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Access: Feelgood Flicks, in reply to kiwicmc,
Wow, thanks! I'll talk to him.
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More in theme, here are pictures from the day I got pissed off trying to get anything done at the home office – and discovered that a diversion on my ride out west to Euro Dell took me past the old Outrageous Fortune house, which is the new (scrubbed up like new) West Side Story house.
I took some pics, but I wasn’t the only media there. Guy Williams was doing an interview with Atonia Prebble, who was reclining in a robe at a house across the road. They had it set up so he entered with a flourish, vaulting the fence on the way. I caught him on the jump.
Funny thing was, although I was standing in front of him in a fluoro short, he had no idea I was there.
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Yay! For Christmas I got enlargements of these two pictures wot I took with my iPhone.
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Jesus Christ -- another Steven Joyce special.
Taxpayers will pay $1.9 million to bankroll the next two New Zealand Open golf tournaments despite the predicted economic return falling well short of the requirement for such a large investment of public money ...
The tournament's funding application relied heavily on its ability to lure wealthy foreigners and high-powered business executives to play in the pro-am format at Sir Michael Hill's private golf course The Hills, near Queenstown, alongside the likes of Prime Minister John Key.
But a second report, detailing the leverage and legacy value of the 2014 tournament, says: "Experience has shown that it is very difficult to attract the top echelon of overseas business executives (and leaders of major corporates in New Zealand) to commit a week of their time (and the money) required to take part in the four-day NZ Open".
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Access: Feelgood Flicks, in reply to Hilary Stace,
I mention it now as her latest one is about her role as storyteller and how her son will in the future tell his own stories.
That’s a really lovely post. And it makes the important point that things aren’t static.
For quite a while we thought Jim would always need some form of sheltering. When we had people around he was basically in his own bubble and didn’t interact. Then suddenly he started welcoming and farewelling guests. Now he’s really good and patient with children who come around and happy to organise the video gaming activity – and his interest in movies is a conversational standby with other adults.
On Saturday he not only joined us at a party (it was around the corner from his monthly autism drop-in meeting), he stayed on after Fiona went home because he was having a good time talking and dancing. To be fair, it was a great party and his father was playing a storming DJ set ;-)
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Hard News: The Sky is the limit, in reply to Sacha,
the most effective opposition voice around the council table
Utter lightweight.
That’s just ridiculous. Brewer is perennially on the margins. Getting your name in the paper a lot is not being “effective”. But I guess it does explain Orsman's approach.
Brewer contriving to find himself in a minority of one today over the convention centre is hilarious though.
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Access: Feelgood Flicks, in reply to Rob Stowell,
Jump cuts are ok with me – that’s how nga tamariki roll these days :)
Yep.
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Hard News: The Sky is the limit, in reply to Sacha,
I’d say total income from tourism, and more narrowly conferences, might be relevant measures.
I think Auckland could use a central city conference theatre that held 3500, and a big, modern exhibition space. Major Pacific-rim cities have this kind of facility.
They'd be well sited for future public transport developments under the current plan -- shame it's just really not desirable for them to be run by those SkyCity people.
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