Posts by Peter Darlington
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rian Easton and Diana Wichtel only goodies left now you've gone Russell.
Don't forget that nice Fiona Rae who does the TV pages!
As well as the aforementioned I would include Jim Pinckney's music reviews. Nick Bollinger's a heck of a nice chap but Stinky Jim usually gets to the soul behind the controls in just the right way.
Apart from that though, it's lean pickings in The Listener nowadays. And replacing funny with whiny on the back page is just plain sad.
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My sweetheart had left NZ in 1990 and there was no such thing back then.
There was actually, I think the Havana boys opened Midnight Espresso in 1988 or 89, Wellie coffee culture took off very quickly from there.
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I'm Italian so, in a way, all your goof coffees are belong to us.
We were in northern Italy last month and found the espresso to be routinely pretty fine and even better, it was cheap. About 80-90 Euro cents per cup drunk at the bar.
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I don't actually drink coffee, but my coffee-drinking relatives found London better than they had expected
Boston Tea Party in Bristol and Bath were about the best for us, we never made it into Monmouth in Covent Garden though.
Singapore, OTOH, was dreadful;
We managed to get hugely expensive double shots in the restaurant at our hotel which were actually ok. Weren't game to try it anywhere else though.
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(I wonder how it does in Europe...)
From what I've just seen it does ok by feeding the tourists, despite the coffee, especially in France and Italy, being very good.
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Although I feel obliged to point out that the massive popularity of tea over coffee until recently in Anglo-Saxon countries is because a virus wiped out the coffee plantations of Sri Lanka in the 1870s and the Brits were so caffeine-deprived they planted tea to make up for it. Coffee was much more popular before then.
Yep, Isaac Newton, Christopher Wren, John Locke et al were all a bunch of crazed coffee loving phules. We possibly wouldn't have the Principia Mathematica, computers and teh Interwebs without the mighty bean.
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Outside influences are largely responsible, and SB has played its part by at least making it accessible (unlike the duanting "face control" of Auckland and Wellington cafe culture).
I don't see how SB has made coffee 'accessible' any more than I can understand how terrifying it is for ordinary people to go in to cafe?
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What's the real reason behind the hatred of Starbucks?
Those creepy huge mugs that they serve coffee in. That sh*t just ain't right.
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Katrina. Read the "From" below my name. I know a bit more about Katrina than most people I meet.
So what was your experience of Katrina, James? Were you living in NO at that time? Did you manage to get out beforehand and how has it been for you since?
Just interested to hear your perspective on it first hand really, without all the politics re local govt, FEMA, Bush etc...
It's been quite a wild week here too, not on the same scale though.
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You body gets conditioned to knocks, to the constant running up and down the field chasing aimless kicks where your lungs are bursting and then you have to make 3 tackles on your goalline and then chase another bloody kick down field. Teams can train for hours but they rarely leave the training field anywhere near as stuffed as when they will walk off a field in a big game. There's nothing that can prepare you for playing a game of rugby as.... playing a game of rugby.
A case in point is Jerry Collins. Now I was away overseas when Jerry called it quits so I don't know the ins and outs but I couldn't believe it when I heard the news. He was a classic player that needed to play all the time and was usually pants when he returned if he'd been forced to have a week or two off. But it didn't stop the rotation system bringing in Reuben Thorne every 2nd or 3rd week or the 7 or 8 positions changing.
With Jerry, Richie and Rodders at 6,7,8 we had the best loose forward combination in rugby in 2005-7 and it almost made me weep looking at what we turned out on Saturday night.