Posts by Geoff Lealand
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Chickpeas..I grew a bunch this year..well, probably enough for one meal.
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Fascinating events in Egypt and you have to wonder where unrest might spread to next. Saudi Arabia? Here's hoping. If the regime there falls, where will all the villains of the world seek refuge?
Good to have Media7 back. On sort of related matters, some folk might like to check out a new UK site A Manifesto for Media Education www.manifestoformediaeducation.co.uk. Contributions from people like Henry Jenkins: I have contributed a perspective from New Zealand
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@ Christopher. Why do we bag the Herald? Because it is a monopoly news source in NZ's biggest market and because it is so damn sycophantic.
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@ Tom. Or turfing Granny out of her granny flat?
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A new arrival to the discussion. Mike Moore. hmm...I wonder....
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Keith Ng for Minister of Finance, I reckon. If only our politicians and policymakers could think and argue so intelligently.....
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re Parachute. Teenagers will be teenagers but what concerns me more is the slightly creepy religious types praying (preying?) on gullible teens.
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We had a bongo van when I was a kid (after the morris minor and before the lada)
Another Lada owner, eh? Despite numerous attempts to kill it, our Lada went 3 times around the clock. Charmless but seemingly indestructible. I sold it to a grad student, who added another around-the-clock, then on-sold it for more than he paid me.
@ Leopold. I agree that we should be jumping up and down at the prospect of National selling off assets they don't own. But it would involve a new thread here.
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That coffee place in Chancery Lane was neat: I patronised it as a ’varsity student (1968/69).
I remember it well. It had raw sugar in wooden boxes on the tables, which seemed hellishly sophisticated. The owner who was Hungarian also owned La Boheme Restaurant in Chch, and I washed dishes there through my univ years. Got quite chummy with Leon, the Dutch chef, and we used to go out for early morning food in local greasy-spoons, after serving up jugged hare and escargot to the locals. I once snaffled a $500 empty wine bottle (Chateau La Something) from there, and used to take it to parties re-filled with local cheap plonk.
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@Jacqui and Stephen; cafes and coffee on every corner in Hammy now and only one, under-frequented Starbucks downtown. Some of the best cafes in the country, apparently.
@ Lucy. I have experienced the abomination that is tea-making in the US. Whenever I get to travel that way, I take my own supply of Choysa extra strong.
If you get down this way, you should take tea at Zealong, a tea plantation on the Gordonton Road. Grows and brews its own Oolong.