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Southerly: Bricks and Mortar, in reply to Ross Mason,
Heh!
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Southerly: Bricks and Mortar, in reply to Lilith __,
I stuck it in the ground as an experiment and then when it didn’t seem to have done anything after some months I started to dig it up again to throw away, only to find it was busy sprouting roots down there! I hurriedly re-buried them with apologies to the tree, and it went on to grow a magnificent crown.
We (Kai Tahu) used to harvest the roots of ti-rakau, bake them in especial ovens (umu-ti) and extract the rich sweet sugars they contained…after digging up the roots, you then replanted the crown/s. Ti-rakau then continued on its merry way, colonising all suitable land-
kia kaha, kia manawanui e David, Jen & kids-may the arrival AND the the living in Dunsandel be even better than you hope & imagine- arohanui mai na-
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Wow! Waua! Impressive! Extraordinary!
I mean every vowel of every word! (The constants can go hang 'em-selves.)
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Hard News: War, now and then, in reply to Hebe,
And, unfortunately, with the “appropriateness” filters of his mind dented by a series of strokes and very old age, the reminiscing has been horrific for the children (the tales he told them were the most graphic I have ever heard or read, anywhere). I cannot comprehend what it must be like to carry that in your head.
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O dear goodness-
may peace & health come to the old man - and understanding to the children.
Some of the stuff that war-survivors carry in their heads is unbeleiveably bad. And wars and other viciousnesses still continue...
I still, understanding the human pain, mourn for Peter Miller's horse...
(yeah, yeah, stupid- but_)
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We had two generations of traumatised fathers and uncles and grandfathers in our country, and many are still living, and that has had an incalculable effect on the men, their families and our society.
Ae.
One of my grandfather’s brothers is bits at Passenchendahl (so is his horse.)(The horse was famous in the family for its strength, speed. and courtesy. Wasted on a European battlefield.)) -
Capture: EQNZ Remembrance, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
And no sun in Sumner- sumone who grew up with that
(It was no ham in Hanmer & no sun Sumner-)
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Hard News: The war over a mystery, in reply to Sacha,
Yeah, I know.
Sometimes, personal *go-away* messages work better. -
Hard News: The war over a mystery, in reply to ,
That's nice Lifeyang - but it's also bloody spam.
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Hard News: The war over a mystery, in reply to HORansome,
f you want references to this I’ll just point you to the work of Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky. Their work in heuristics (and the attendant biases) was pretty groundbreaking in the 1970s.
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Thank you. I will look it up.
I am aware of the problems with *eye-witness* reports (the classic gorilla-on-the-basketball-court You-Tube thing) but -while I obviously havent read Kahneman /Tversky yet -I still know that I wouldnt mistake a glass-eel for a 'bait.
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Hard News: The war over a mystery, in reply to HORansome,
You are confusing 'eye-witnesses' (definition please) with 'experts': an expert on whitebait (I wouldnt quite call myself that - but) would NEVER mistake a glass eel for any kind of 'bait.
And, a waterman/yachtie/ferry-taxi person would NEVER mistake a single-masted boat for a ketch.
Time/place/other matters dont actually factor in: you know what you know.
I'd really like to have some substantive back-up for your claims.
They amount to waffle in the wind at the moment insofar as I am concerned-