Posts by Just thinking
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Has Grand Designs done Cobb & Log constructions with load bearing walls?
I know they've done thatching and a fair bit of heritage work. -
Gymsperm is just too messy. Softwood, well who wants that.
Simply call it timber and then the double entendre is hopefully put to bed. -
I believe the French consider History a science, and therefore it gets well funded.
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The cruiseship terminal was because the Princess Wharf is a failure as a Cruiseship Terminal and Public Open Space.
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Good to hear Party Central is no more. Hopefully Auckland will be able to be celebrated a bit more.
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Waikuku Surf lifesaving clubs colours are orange,white & brown. A curse from being founded in the 1970s.
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It might be easier to point to our intangible cultural heritage.
The Kiwi accent(s), the raise inflection to signify the end of a sentence as opposed to a question.The acceptance and use of Maori in every day speak, ie Kia ora and rotflnui (often seen on this forum). The use of a question like "How are you?" to mean "hello" - confuses many foriegners.
Tangibles 1/4 acre section, State Houses, L & P, our pathetic booze culture, intermarriage, a willingness to do the right thing & give most people most of the time a fair go (Treaty Negotiations) & having no Constitution but still remain a fair and functioning country.
I should correct a few of the errors above, but then we have W(h)anganui miss-spelt, Ohai isn't a maori word, it was a code that looked like maori and thus became a word and place, Half Moon & Horseshoe Bays were transposed by the cartographer & they've kept it that way, & was New Zealand a spelling misstake or a marketing ploy.
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I'm gonna relish this now Joe, but I'll have to read it twice, buggar.
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Thanks for the heads up Lucy, of course I'll have to read it now.
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I haven't looked at Barry Brailsford book The Tattooed Land, do you recommend it or are there questions about its varacity (which just makes it all the more interesting).