Posts by Geoff Lealand
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Pretty Lights? What about (The) Pretty Things?
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Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to Jos,
Will do. I recall there was a restaurant on the opposite corner but not much else.
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Wisteria + bb (2)
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Wisteria currently in bloom (1)
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Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to Jos,
Had a bun from there a couple of weeks back, en route to Opotiki,
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There was a whole industry in school-based testing (PAT, CLOZE tests) when I worked at the NZ Council for Educational Research. They are strangely silent in this whole debate.
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..and I will donate the first $100 (for funny hats or legal fees).
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What a great topic. The problem is that we have such a surfeit of self-satirising around--from Key's and Bank's selective amnesia, to Dotcom's antics.
But don't forget you have Jose. With a bit more exposure and taller heels, he could become our local Charlie Brooker. And then there is Ian Dalziel and David H,
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Haven't been here for a while but there is news:
* a new 26 seat cinema has opened as an adjunct to Finns Hotel in Paekakariki;
* the Lighthouse Cuba (Wigan Street, Wellington) is due to open in mid-October;
* the Focal Point Cinemas (Feilding and Leven) have taken over the Hastings cinema (presumably the Readings venue which closed earlier this year);
* the Dargaville community group are on the way to bringing back a dedicated cinema to a town which hasn't had one for 30 years.There you go .....
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On older music, in the interest of historical symmetry , I should go see The Pretty Things at the Powerstation in December 11. As a very young sprout, I was at the New Plymouth concert which famously led to them being banned for life from New Zealand (a ban which has presumably expired, or maybe TPTs are the undead?) They are using The Truth story to promote their 2012 tour,
