Posts by Joe Wylie
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Capture: Two Tripods, One Night, in reply to DexterX,
It would be a sin to travel so far, to stand in the holy place at the foot of your master and not imbibe of the great and wonderful bounty that he bestows upon one for a token.
That was a really nice pic Geoff.
Made me think of Pere Ubu's Turquoise Fins:Can't we stop along the way?
We just passed by a place called
Elvis Is Alive Museum
and a Shop
where
we can get souvenirs & a postcard or twoJack says
Man it's awful hard
to be the one
that everyone was waiting for
It's lonely in the dark
when
media priests of the Big Lie
own
all of the wordsDid you ever wonder why
your Elvis fans
were so much nicer people than
the people who
laugh at
them? -
Hard News: A storm in any port, in reply to Kumara Republic,
To the best of my knowledge, the Aussie dispute was largely domestic.
That's my best recollection, though the International Transport Workers Federation did organise a boycott of Australian produce in the US, for which they were condemned by then ALP leader Kim Beazley.
Britain in 1984, where Thatcher threw the full force of the bobbies against the striking miners.
One of the most memorable aspects of the Australian dispute was the restraint shown by state police. At the time when picket lines were expected to be forcibly broken, and the farm lobby was calling for the army to be deployed, over 100 Sydney cops were supposed to have called in sick. The NSW police in particular had their own industrial issues at the time, but when the expected, and no doubt hoped for by the Howard Government confrontations fizzled, the impression was one of tacit police solidarity with the wharfies.
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Capture: Roamin' Holiday, in reply to Lilith __,
No, I thought it probably wasn't my thing. I might have been wrong. Were there hordes of people?
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Capture: Roamin' Holiday, in reply to Rob Stowell,
Thanks Rob - I've read through the how-tos about installation, nice to have some real-world feedback. Am sufficiently emboldened now, thanks a lot.
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Capture: Roamin' Holiday, in reply to Jos,
Our fraught looking blackbird...
Moulting time. Considering they're saddled with the taxonomic handle of turdus ('true thrushes'), you'd expect them to look at least that scruffy at all times.
Rob:
Does the Canon mod screw with your menu? I've been tempted to download it for my Powershot 650 but I've been a bit timid. -
When the Howard Government attempted much the same kind of union-busting exercise back in 1998, NZ's 'reforms' were cited as an example of how increased efficiencies could be delivered.
Detailed figures for Auckland were used to show Sydney and Melbourne as comparatively inefficient. Opponents claimed that as NZ was effectively the end of the line, there was a lot less unloading and replacing of containers intended for other ports in order to access local stuff. And in hyper-efficient Singapore and Dubai they loaded things to suit themselves.
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Hard News: It's In the Kete!, in reply to Islander,
He was the one whip-cracked by a sagacious old lady elephant when he teased her with a cabbage here in Oamaru, many years ago...
That sounds like a good story.
It's very easy to underestimate an elephant's reach, as I once discovered during a private audience with the Ak zoo's late Kashin. When you're that big, two full timid human paces back from that investigating trunk that wants to snuffle you from head to foot* is easily countered by the slightest forward lean.*It was her enclosure, she was within her rights.
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Hard News: It's In the Kete!, in reply to Hebe,
Our oxhearts and tigerellas are ripening slowly
Fancy dat, that's exactly what I got.
Got converted to tigerella after trying them for first time last year. Golf-ball sized with around 1.5 times the flavour intensity of top supermarket cherry toms, BIG plants with heavily-laden trusses.Oxhearts are all seed-descended from a single plant bought at English Park in 2005. Everyone loves them. I keep two paper towels in a kitchen drawer, folded in half, with oxheart & tigerella written in pencil. When I remember I sample a bit of DNA by whipping the occasional seed out on the tip of a knife and depositing it on said towel.
Going on the number of bags of frozen puree, surplus is down about 30% on last year, but there's been no lack of fresh toms for the past 3+ weeks.
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A few of this year's Oxhearts. Vegetarian offal?
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Hard News: Unwarranted risk, in reply to Stephen Doyle,
Whatever happened to good old fashioned nationalization. Is it now such a dirty word that no "left wing" party will utter it?
Isn't there some adage about nationalization being what governments do after they've run out of things to sell?
