Peter Darlington

It’s a relaxing Labour Weekend NZ for cats.

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Steady on Nelson!

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And London hated him, apparently

Aguerd was balling for Morocco at the World Cup before joining West Ham. He’s balling for Marseille since leaving West Ham, but so many of the idiots amongst our fan base still think it was Aguerd that was the problem!? 🤨⚒️⚒️

Marseille Stun PSG in Le Classique Olympique de Marseille shocked Paris Saint-Germain with a 1-0 victory on Matchday 5 of the 2025-26 Ligue 1 season.

It ain’t the players. When are we going to admit West Ham has mishandled a bucketload load of talent in the last few years because of the chaos and mismanagement at the heart of the club.

www.beinsports.com/en-us/soccer...

Phil Spencer currently perusing rancid palaces of the mega rich of New Zealand on TVNZ appears to have discovered a totalitarian Soviet surf club in Pauanui. Damned that’s a lot of money for a huge grey ugly concrete fort. 🤮🤢

Great article Kirsty. Lots of great questions there and hopefully they get answered eventually

Always. Even when there are younger people there

A birthday week away in the glorious South Island of New Zealand. A bit of shopping and a bit of thermal soaking in the mountains. Highly recommended.

Genius bringing Wilson in. He always scores in a West Ham game

The Rodriguez game time feels like a direct challenge to the owner. Weirdly I think Potter genuinely rates JWP. Together they’re killing us though

Same midfield as well.

I can only presume Graham Potter is actively trying for the sack at West Ham at this point. There’s no other explanation for how he’s turned a bad team into an unspeakable one over the summer window. #WestHam

Watch them panic buy 4 absolute muppets this week, after doing nothing all summer

We’ll have to take our pleasures where we can this year

That Paqueta goal though, what a thing of beauty. 💯🙏🏼💯 #WHUCHE #WestHam

Yep agree on all counts. I look forward to the day our midfield isn’t a gaping chasm for Prem sides to wander through!

I’d love Fully to have a full season for us. Such a great player. Strong, intelligent and sharp.

And with Callum Wilson. Both older injury prone strikers. Both great players but it’s a gamble

Looks like we’ve got our very own Crossing Commando in El Hadj Diouf. Guy’s an absolute bomber. #WestHam #WHUFC

Would you be with our midfield though? Potts has improved it somewhat but with JWP and Paqueta there’s loads of open space and width for teams to attack.

Yay Tis mine! On the way to rain sodden Nelson NZ to brighten up this Kiwi spring.

In the 1st 13 years I managed ICT at the Tasman Council (1997-2010) I had zero emergencies to respond to. Since then? 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023, 2025. Don’t tell my people climate change is a hoax.

I’ve had half a dozen staff working in the Nelson Tasman Emergency Mgt Centre across shifts since 8am Friday. We’ve had too many of these events here in Tasman, New Zealand over the last decade. It gives me the easiest measure of climate change.

Nelson Tasman only seems to have 2 settings nowadays. Drought or weather bomb. Very tiring if you work in Local Govt

Bride killed in armed attack at wedding party in France The bride and the groom were leaving the party when they were attacked by masked assailants.

Wow, right across the square from my sisters holiday apartment. Never thought I’d see this little village in the NZ Press.

www.stuff.co.nz/world-news/3...

One of the non negotiables from my recent trip to Japan. Absolute killer business from Philip Smart at King Tubby’s. Picked up Dub Store in Shinjuku, at a pretty decent price too. Pretty much all unreleased dubs and killer vocal tracks from Jacob Miller, Johnny Clarke and more.

From LA to Paris, the populist right hates cities – and it’s fuelled by a sense of bitter defeat | Andy Beckett LA was once a conservative stronghold; now the military is occupying it. Liberal cities have become targets for politicians looking to stir up their voters elsewhere, says Guardian columnist Andy Beck...

Far right tossers the world over hate cities. Just like their ideological comrades, the Taliban, because cities are where free thought, urbanism and modernity thrive.

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I am intimately acquainted with the record shops of Brunswick, Gertrude and Smith streets and there’s loads of retro around there too.

We certainly plan to. Keen to get back to Crande as well actually. My sister has a little holiday apartment in the Luberon in Provence, about 30 mins from Avignon.