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Up Front: The Up-Front Guides: The…, in reply to Joe Wylie,
If tussock had suggested Brethren, especially the extreme ones, nobody would bat an eyelid- but the last pair of Mormon proslytisers in Big O wanted to know where you got cellphone coverage round here?
I politely said "Franz Josef" before shutting the door...
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Hard News: Living with the psychopath, in reply to DexterX,
t is particular to what I will call the “NZ Psychosis” – the profound lack of insight
And just what would *that* be, Dexter X?
And your authority to be able to diagnose this hitherto unknown condition?
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Hard News: The question of Afghanistan…, in reply to Bart Janssen,
t's the reason historically armies stopped before incorporating Afganistan into whatever empire they happened to be forming at the time. Army rides up looks at the mountains and says "yeah, nah".
Report
Including Alexander's (after being whopped.)
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Speaker: Selling the Dream: The Art of…, in reply to Chris Waugh,
Sounds like you had a pretty awesome grandfather. Knowledge is such a powerful thing.
E Chris - I am so lucky. From my earliest childhood, I have known that whanau/korero/ aroha is the first part of real life: that ability to provide food (garden/sea garden/fishing of all kinds) and utilise it, is the second part of life,
and that - creativity? - the making of new &life enhancing & illuminating things(arioi never got here)was my lot-and that knowledge didnt come from my father's side of my family. To give my father his due, he did teach me about perspective (in the art sense.)
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Hard News: Christchurch: Is "quite good"…, in reply to Isabel Hitchings,
O struth!
Still no decent reticulation?
That is a total indictment of the local council (yeah, we know, Parker & co have always had functioning loos and f888 all you little people- ooo, I can see why citoyens gleefully followed tumbrils-) -
Hard News: Christchurch: Is "quite good"…, in reply to Hebe,
would love a labyrinth – grass, gravel or pounamu – somewhere beautiful for walking, pacing, contemplating, singing, or sitting in the sun any time. A good Gap Filler?
O yes...bring in the birds, and the bush, and the wounded stones, and let the place, and empathetic humans...make it all be-
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Hard News: Christchurch: Is "quite good"…, in reply to Lilith __,
One of my whanau ending-message salutations is, "Stay warm & well & dry!"
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Speaker: Selling the Dream: The Art of…, in reply to Chris Waugh,
Agreed. But it seems to be a bit of a theme in NZ history. For example, old coins:
The sixpence had a huia on it….
If you have a Waitangi crown, it is worth a lot of money…
I think me & mine, as South Island Maori, decided to retreat from head-on clashes in my grand-dad’s time: he, and his, were sorting out some of the Land Court stuff, passing the info on to his children, and hoping things would change.
When he was dying (of cancer of the oesophagus, a gift of his years working with a tar machine on the county roads)he made sure his kids inherited his Maori land. Including the adopted Pakeha one-
and so, I – as trustee-executrix of my grand-dad’s 3rd child’s will- have learned the pace of courts. And how to ignore the vilenesses of the likes of Lhaws and others.
And how to stand strongly and exactly and with knowledge, against the stupidity of those who put ancestral heads on -(gag) teatowels! Or inappropriate posters. Et al--with you Hebe, on that kind of stuff- and seemingly innocent posters (with the rakatira's name in lower case yet-)
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Hard News: Christchurch: Is "quite good"…, in reply to Lilith __,
Sorry to hear that Lilith - a someone who has dwelt in leaky houses for the past 42 years-
*buckets
*plastic sheeting
*newspapers
*sqeegees= all can be used in ingenious ways
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Hard News: Christchurch: Is "quite good"…, in reply to Hebe,
<q>My God, the Chinese Scotsman. I had totally forgotten him. Weird.
I NEVER have! He used to bike down Pages Road when we were going school (Aranui HS), kilt aflap and the ribbons on his cap aflying - never stopped. Never talked to anyone. Just wonderfully - was-