Posts by Richard Aston
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I am well pleased to be part of the "most discursive website" even though I don't know what that means.
This blog is a good place to be, as Jackson says it has a warm atmosphere but most of all the craic is good. -
Hard News: The Next Labour Leader, in reply to Stewart,
Waitakere man = David Cunliffe
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I don't know what it takes to "refound" a political party but I imagine it takes more than a leader of either David's hue. The weak list seems one indication the party advisers are the trouble, who are the people in the background that do these things?
I heard that Helen Clarke's approach was comprehensive from the grassroots up , she had "her people" at every level. Will either of these Davids be able to pull something like that off?
Maybe Shearer has the potential but what else (who else) needs to change at the top level of Labour for it to be transformed? -
Just love this shot - not mine but it inspired me to write the following poem.
Boy at play in good father field
Leaping to meet
The heroic heart in every man
Blest is he, blessed I amSoul knows further fields
In times and tides to come
Will ask heroic deeds
Of this brave sonBlest is he, at play and found
In the field of the good father
On holy ground
On holy ground -
Capture: Colour is the new black, in reply to Stewart,
Kamikaze Kereru - they are a worry . We live with at around 4-5 Kereru , never seen them crash a window yet . They however gate crash a long lunch on the deck - swooping down over the table alarming the guests . Not sure if its a warning or they are taking the piss.
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England - Hampton Court, Maypole dancing - me left, doing haka - as you do .
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Capture: Colour is the new black, in reply to JacksonP,
Jackson just love that Tui - it looks like an old man Tui , Kaumātua even.
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Capture: Colour is the new black, in reply to Lilith __,
Oh its real all right - it loves that spot - in summer our Kereru eat over ripe guavas and get drunk - I have seen it on that spot, on its back with one wing in the air , waving.
Now that was unreal. -
Great thread - really enjoying it .
Here's my local Kereru sitting in the Morning glory out the front of my house -
Up Front: What if We Held an Election…, in reply to Lucy Stewart,
You do have to wonder how much Maori has been changed and/or ossified by the transition to written language
Good point Lucy - and how does the process of translating an oral language into writing do that? My ancestors come from Scotland ( Hebrides) North England and London where the language has been locked into written form for a long time but the dialects of my grandparents are so distinct I don't think they could talk to each other.
Dialect there is of course is tightly linked to social status - my half sister unlearn't Londoner and taught her self the Queens English so she could get a teaching job.
