Posts by Geoff Lealand
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Too optimistic to think that Jacinda could be the deputy?
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The Avondale Market is indeed a great experience but you firstly have to navigate a corridor of tat (bundles of nylon socks and plastic doo-dads) until it opens up into a vista of fruit, veg and food stalls,
We have a very popular Saturday night market in downtown Hamilton, with some pretty yummy food--not French but certainly cheaper. -
Well, the big old plum tree, which appeared to be in terminal decline, has thwarted my expectations of firewood for next winter and has put out blossom. It will only be a temporary reprieve if the fruit do not match the promise.
Pictures soon.
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I am quite bewildered by all this .... but I do know that the Chiefs are champions again.
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There is that inhibiting, much too prevalent social nicety of "If you can't say nothing nice, don't say anything". I have always thought it was a nonsense but it does get in the way of calling a bastard a bastard
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Yes, there is a great deal of saving jobs at the cost of any vestige of integrity or independence. Peter Dunne is a worm and ACT a cluster of worm casts. There needs to be an MP with the independent will of Marilyn Waring (even if she chose the wrong party) to scupper the whole process.
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Hard News: Fluency, ease of manner - and…, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
But there is a difference between being trained to lie with style, and training to communicate your ideas well via the media.
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David, Ian and other Chch folk: Talking of young 'uns, I am doing another round of my talk "In Love With Shirley Temple; Cultural Memory, Hollywood ... and Christchurch" for the CPIT research Forum tomorrow (Thursday), around 1.15pm in L233 (second floor main building on Madras). All are invited, apparently.
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Sticky fingers?
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Hard News: Food Show 2013: There is a…, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
,.. And fluoride-laced beverages.