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  • Field Theory: Every four years, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,

    Yup!
    Actually, it learned to interpret - blurs

    -which is what that wonderful archer does (I think!)

    (I shoot (guns/shanghais) extremely accurrately and - kind of weirdly - I can chop wooden things within 10 mm- using an ax/adze/machete-

    maybe this is why strange seemingly disabling eye conditions continue?

    Big O, Mahitahi, Te Wahi … • Since Feb 2007 • 5643 posts Report

  • Field Theory: Every four years, in reply to David Hood,

    m Dong-hyun who has set the first World Record of this games (in archery) and is legally blind.

    Report

    YAY!
    As someone who spent their life up until first cataract operation (3 years ago) as legally blind, I can only shout RESPECT!
    (We do sort of see - my dominant eye saw very well- the other one....)

    Big O, Mahitahi, Te Wahi … • Since Feb 2007 • 5643 posts Report

  • Up Front: The Up-Front Guides: The…, in reply to Isabel Hitchings,

    All that matters is that some same sex couples do wish to marry and there is no just reason why they should not be able to.

    Tautoko!

    Big O, Mahitahi, Te Wahi … • Since Feb 2007 • 5643 posts Report

  • Up Front: The Up-Front Guides: The…, in reply to steve gray,

    Will louisa Wall be up front about her own dearly held Christian views and that she is supporting this bill, and let us be honest, there is only 2 bits of difference between the civil unions act and the marriage act, 2 differences, it seems an awful lot of energy is going into this bill, which is happening because Louisa is a Christian and wants to marry in her ‘Gods’ eyes. waste of energy and tim

    Would you be rather more explicit than this gush?
    Thank you steve gray
    and welome to PAS-

    cheers - Keri, resident asexual-

    Big O, Mahitahi, Te Wahi … • Since Feb 2007 • 5643 posts Report

  • Busytown: “Glory! Glory! There’s the salt!”,

    Can we get rid of that spam person?

    Big O, Mahitahi, Te Wahi … • Since Feb 2007 • 5643 posts Report

  • Busytown: “Glory! Glory! There’s the salt!”, in reply to Isabel Hitchings,

    <q> always with a little doodle of a lion or a crocodile.

    O! I just went upstairs and gathered an armload of Margaret’s works -and found, tucked above them, a drawing-

    it was originally up on the corkboard behind the desk in the cupboard – laughingly called “The Writer-in-Resident Office” at Canterbury University.

    It was *the* lion in the meadow, with a simple “Welcome to the next Writer-in-Residence!” (which was me) in Margaret’s own hand. V. typical of her kind & deep thoughtfulness-

    Right. Instead of snivelling, on to rereading the stories-

    Big O, Mahitahi, Te Wahi … • Since Feb 2007 • 5643 posts Report

  • Hard News: It's not funny because it's…, in reply to Sacha,

    We got fibreoptic right to each house ....)

    Big O, Mahitahi, Te Wahi … • Since Feb 2007 • 5643 posts Report

  • Capture: Dogs Love Cameras Too, in reply to Ian Dalziel,

    Ian, so many thanks for that! It truly perked up what was a sour, dour, louring day-

    Big O, Mahitahi, Te Wahi … • Since Feb 2007 • 5643 posts Report

  • Hard News: It's not funny because it's…, in reply to Rich of Observationz,

    Which is what we got in Big O well over a decade ago...

    (fibre-to-lamp-post...well, power& telephone pole, there being no lamp-posts round here...)

    Big O, Mahitahi, Te Wahi … • Since Feb 2007 • 5643 posts Report

  • Muse: OPEN HOUSE: Margaret Mahy, The…, in reply to Islander,

    Except, of course, nothing more to come (and yeah, I/U do know about the 2 forthcomings-)

    Big O, Mahitahi, Te Wahi … • Since Feb 2007 • 5643 posts Report

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