Of course, you'll be pleased to know Wanaka has a golf links. https://wanakagolf.co.nz
Adrian, of course I know to whom you refer with your eulogy- "Especially seeing Laurie was from the Dark Side, he was lost to us this year and the world is poorer for that, an old style Nat who understood community, commitment and, responsibility and ...
I read from the protozoa barrier notice cited above, ( confirmed and funded plan by mid 2024,) that my electorate has an estimated 7,731 people who are at risk from no protozoa barriers in 13 locations; as well, two schools and seven DoC camping sites are ...
Yes, HT2, human tenure here is tenuous. The planet survived for billions of years without us, and will continue so, until Sol goes nova......
This refusal to allow timely publication is even worse than John Key's stance on opinions. https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/mediawatch/audio/201807260/is-a-'post-truth'-era-upon-us This was in 2016. Now the National government has gone back to its...
"Goh!" said with Basil Fawlty roll of the eyes and toss of the head. "People!" https://www.stuff.co.nz/pou-tiaki/301021714/mad-bad-or-sad-its-not-surprising-that-mori-are-reluctant-to-speak-to-media "Journalists were once again celebrated in 2023 by ...
Being bilingual also teaches about one's own language and culture since the act of learning another language introduces another culture and thereby enables a comparison. It's also good to use as a code for secrecy purposes. Our kids took ages to work out ...
Funnily enough we thick Irish and descendants of Irish have had no problems since the 1920s with dual language road signs in Ireland. The Gaelige sign is on top in italic script, and the English version is underneath in capitals, both in the same size font...
But they say that science will save the world. Here are two views. https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC2305/S00013/why-science-cant-save-us.htm https://www.arduino.cc/education/how-science-will-save-the-world Last night I saw a play based on Dickens' 'A ...
I see you're having to guess like me; your serving would not go down too well.
'It' being? The government? Its style? Its policies? Which ones? There are many possible topics in the original piece by MickySavage that may be the subject of your condemnation.
newsense, MOD? Merchants of Death? Men of Destiny? Google doesn't tell me.....
"Thankfully, the new coalition arrived just in time to stop our woke youth from evading tobacco." A quote from the first of many, hopefully, where the media are criticising the rank stupidity of the coalition of craziness. https://www.stuff.co.nz/pou-tiaki...
Having that song in my repertoire, I must say that I don't think that Chris Hipkins could be the singer of such words as "Once I lived the life of a millionaire, Spent all my money without any care". Words better suited to John Key or Christopher Luxon ...
I fear we have three popes as during the Great Schism. https://www.britannica.com/event/Western-Schism
The illusory truth effect! The tendency to believe false information to be correct after repeated exposure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_truth_effect It's all illusion, ianmac. Smoke and mirrors. Deception, misinformation, manipulation. I wonder ...
Getting a Handel on the Coalition Chorus: (you all know the melody) "Strong and Stable! Strong and Stable! Strong and Stable! Strong and Stable! Strong and Stable! For the Luxon Coalition governeth! Strong and Stable! Strong and Stable! Strong and Stable! ...
Even more fun.... I have outlasted then both by nearly four weeks....... so far.... work in progress. I have seen eleven governments fall in New Zealand and voted Labour 19 times, twice for myself. I have lived 48 years under National, and 27 under Labour....
Following on from that Sunday Column, cited here on theStandard, by David Slack on the popcorn spectacle provided by the Three Willies (or is that two Willies and a Won't He?), I received last week an email from the National Party suggesting I make a ...
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/coalition-talks-chris-bishop-crashes-scooter-spills-coffee-on-way-to-national-party-meeting/
You mean like these others? "Tempted and tried we're oft made to wonder why it should be thus all the day long While there are others living about us, never molested, though in the wrong."
Three tenners? Come on, mate's rates..... three for ten bucks, and throw in a nice tax break as well.
"Trio", the album. Hear such songs as "Making Plans", "Telling Me Lies" and "I've Had Enough". https://www.discogs.com/release/2949225-Dolly-Parton-Linda-Ronstadt-Emmylou-Harris-Trio
The Thomas Coughlan article is about allegations of verbal abuse of two teenagers. At the end, there are these unrelated comments which are not enlarged upon or substantiated. "Hipkins was confirmed as the Party’s leader this Tuesday and said he would ...
What's in a headline? "Hipkins still Labour leader" says my morning paper. How else could that have been framed? "Hipkins re-elected Labour leader" or "Hipkins re-endorsed as Labour Leader"? "Still" has connotations of 'finger-tapping frustration', or ...
Maybe Winston could be playing this song from Aftermath, the 1966 album by the Rolling Stones. "I Am Waiting" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMNEozyzpZI
A wee matter of some high level cricket and rugby as well as post-election gardening. My mate and I dropped off some of our vegetables to the local food kitchen- a glut of broad beans, greens and onions, and picked up some free brioche buns. So more bread ...
Politics and sport do mix. There are a few parallels with the 2023 election result and the All Black loss over the weekend. First, we all lose at times. Second, sometimes there's not much in it, and what will the TMO say as the results are reviewed on ...
"Send in the clowns." Don't bother, they're here. What we need are Shakespearean clowns, the role of whom was to talk sense to power and to criticise stupidity. The Fool, or Clown, Touchstone, said- "The fool thinks he is a wise man, but the wise man knows...
What's new? It seems in Ancient Rome in the time of the kings, young Roman men raced each other on chariots around the seven hills, causing destruction to property and danger to pedestrians. The answer from the politicians? Circuses! And laws to protect ...
Thanks, Ian. That is my understanding. A make-up about make-up.
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