bill

possibly not released to public yet.

neighbours are away for the weekend but it's ok, they have house sitter who can also milk the goat

Bill to make English an official language of NZ introduced to Parliament The bill is being fiercely defended by Winston Peters.

Verral is good boxer, spars well and always looks for the opportunity to throw in a well timed uppercut.

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no surprises there

can't. it's a jungle out there

at one point i thought well the cops aren't going to do anything, is it up to organised citizens now to enforce the law and deal to these fuckwits. it was so infuriating to watch it all unfold and take hold, with apparently zero consequences.

some poor fool tried to convince my bil that climate change was a fact, pointed him towards some telling graphs

ha anyone can draw a graph m8

i quite like that if you do get lost you get to ask a random stranger for directions, ie: chat to someone you'd normally not engage with. i couldn't find a street here in Nelson once- assumed it was somewhere it wasn't. stopped a bloke my age, (also without a smartph) and we tracked it down together

yep. in unfamiliar cities i read the map before heading out, write the street names and turnoffs on a bit of paper. it's pretty basic.

yeah it also gets extra complicated here- the legal road is a paper road which shows up on a map but doesn't appear on the ground as it were. what exists on the ground is actually a right of way, which doesn't appear on most maps.

YouTube video by Patricia Barber - Topic Let It Rain

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it's pass agg posturing. very limp.

i dunno. this no exit valley seems to be a bermuda triangle for gps addicts. prob half a dozen incidents a year. i don't get it. what's difficult about ' past the Glen turnoff, past the hall, opposite the paddock with the belted galloways hang a right at the top of the hill'

english came from frisian, a language my father can speak fluently. i doubt paul is aware of this. paul is a very dim little man.

today i fitted some architraves onto some window jambs, fitted hardware onto a mullion and fitted a rimu sill with a matai trim piece underneath. help me paul

i need to know what sort of english is the official nz english.
is it english as spoken in mataura? or as spoken in kaikohe. or ōtara. or fendalton. i need more details paul

m8 I'm old enough to remember russ hinze. about as corrupt as shane jones:)

I think we'd tire of him pretty quickly. Are we still paying for him to live in his wife's house btw?

I'd go for Craig Renney mself.

league tho has such an interesting socio dynamic, particularly with tangata whenua, pacific island migrant communities and working class ppl. she's missing out:)

yeah, this has been brewing for some time and i was aware of it.

league! rugby league! :)

Luxon went to St Kentigern, a staunch rugby school. It wasn't uncommon for pupils at these schools to be caned for playing rugby league on the school grounds, in fact some were punished if they were caught playing out of school hours.
Great book btw

www.rnz.co.nz/stories/2018...

it's a completely fake contrived rivalry. there's a hype built up around the hate that supposedly exists between the two sides, much trash talk and sledging etc but then the players return to playing alongside one another at club level and internationals, and they all become good friends again.

state of origin eh. well let me tell you about state of nature

i just remember him being somewhat concerned about the damage done to swimming pools there.

monochrome painting, ralph hotere, titled ' a fall of rain at mitimiti

a fall of rain at wakapuaka
(after hotere)

Ten Neglected New Zealand Love Songs - Article | AudioCulture This list will no doubt be breaking a few hearts by excluding one of Aotearoa’s greatest-ever love songs, Chris Knox’s ‘Not Given Lightly’. And, as if that wasn’t enough, we’ve also given the cold sho...

For Valentine's weekend: Ten Neglected New Zealand Love Songs. Here's a clue about one of them, from Karl Puschmann's lovely wide-ranging selection: "Every summer can be the Summer of Love when you spin this relaxed head-nodder..." www.audioculture.co.nz/articles/ten...

the underside of a vintage truck which has just been liberally sprayed with fisholene, an old school nz rust proofing measure. fish oil is dripping off the chassis in places- eg the leaf spring carrier top left.

paul at vtnz nelson reckons my vintage ford trader truck is the most mint example in the country and it flies thru it's cof every time.
he did mention last time maybe spray some fisholene on the surface rust - reckons it smells nice too- like fish n chips.
so i've just done that. he'll need a hat

m8, we hear ya