Posts by Chris Waugh
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Hard News: Prague, in reply to Omar Crawford,
they speak a slightly different language and have a different culture,
Some commentary on the mutual intelligibility of Czech and Slovak. It seems to be a classic case of a language being a dialect with an army and navy - though I doubt either the Czech or Slovak Republics have much in the way of navies, something to patrol their shares of the Danube, I'm sure, but...
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This was in the yard of my daughter's kindy, but it seems to have ditched the slide it was attached to, hopped off the stand it was on, leapt over the kindy wall, and scooted down to the shelter of palm tree.
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Folk dancing is for trenches (great reverb!)
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Capture: Movement, in reply to JacksonP,
the trampoline shots
Sheesh. Kids are hard enough to photograph as it is, and then you go and put them on trampolines?
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My students (in blue) can fly.
Though some of the others get a bit confused about which sport they're supposed to be playing.
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Happy birthday, Capture!
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So Zhou Qiyuan of the Nanjing Daily has decided that, among sheep and old people, New Zealand has a lot of birds, which are well loved by the locals. Why on Earth she was so impressed by the sight of pigeons, gulls and sparrows in downtown Wellington, I don't know. Perhaps somebody should've pointed her in the direction of this thread? Nora's done a great job of making the pigeons and gulls actually beautiful, and there are so many more birds... Mt Eden's unusual visitor of the other day, for example.
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Found this on the way to lunch. Most unseasonal-seeming. And I don't think I've seen one of these in Beijing before.
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Hard News: The Boom Crash, in reply to Aotearoan,
Go North, people
No, no, no, you want to encourage people to go south, otherwise Northland will fill up with economic refugees from Auckland and all that goodness you talk about will be gone. Then where are you going to go?
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Hard News: The Boom Crash, in reply to Hilary Stace,
Watch My Street
This one? Interesting explanation for why it only does Wellington. And only Wellington City proper - I just tried a Porirua address, nothing.
