Posts by Joe Wylie
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Hard News: This Is Not A Complicated Issue, in reply to
Also, a fuckwit issue.
They seem to be all the go with Parliamentary Services and that particular list slot.
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. . . the new, purpose-built stadium at QEII Park.
A few pics of the sad stadium in limbo.
On a slightly happier note, the Forfar Courts Council housing complex in St Albans uses recycled accommodation from the '74 games. Apart from a bit of liquefaction the relocatables are still in good nick.
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Hard News: This Is Not A Complicated Issue, in reply to
defect to the National Party (temporarily, of course). Problem will be fixed within days, if not hours, I'm sure.
Heh. Mathers gained her list seat at the expense of the ridiculous Aaron Gilmore, who treated his time in parliament as an exercise in fact-free misinformation and idly misleading the electorate. Perhaps Leighton's a bit miffed that the Greens don't expect her to follow suit.
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to
and there was me thinking they looked like Dennis the Menace (UK)
Me too, until this unfortunate association.
even if he was toned down... by the BBC
The heady days of cartoon violence. I once worked on an animated kids' series that had been given The Word about such stuff when the scripts were half-written. It was a major pest to eliminate stray shovels and suchlike that had been strategically placed for a bit of 'harmless' biff - "One must not put a loaded rifle on the stage if no one is thinking of firing it."
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Looking on the bright side, Christchurch's monstrous Holiday Inn is to be put out of its misery. Along with the doomed Westpac Tower and the Hotel Grand Chancellor, the three biggest architectural boils on the bum of Chchch.
Crusaders supporters may still dress like Freddie Krueger, but the city skyline will no longer be dominated by hideous knockoffs of the mansion from Psycho.
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Cantabrians Unite is up.
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Capture: Roamin' Holiday, in reply to
This one my son is holding
Looks like a superb specimen of a greengrocer:
Around 220 cicada species have been identified in Australia, many of which go by fanciful common names such as: cherry nose, brown baker, red eye (Psaltoda moerens), green grocer/green Monday, yellow Monday, whisky drinker, double drummer (Thopha saccata), and black prince. The Australian green grocer, Cyclochila australasiae, is among the loudest insects in the world.
Most of these names seem to derive from the schoolkid pursuit of catching cicadas. I'm assured that the black prince is a better find than a greengrocer on account of its relative rarity. There are also pisswackers, supposedly the silent females that pee on you when you pick them up.
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to
More the vegetation above the high tide mark. It was about five minutes walk south of the car park, in 1998. I thought what the hell is that, it's a bloody SPOONBILL, and so it was, heading North. Not a superfast flier, so I got a really good look.
BTW, best false exotic bird sighting: On the North Coast of NSW a few years ago, a large black bird in flight with an enormous toucan-like bill. Stop the car, curse the lack of a camera, it's a crow with a McDonalds carton.
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to
Moeraki IS nice...
Moeraki is where I saw my one & only spoonbill in NZ, flying along the line of the beach, over the dunes. Magic minutes.
Licking their lips