Posts by Joe Wylie
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
CERA are running a series of ‘Pop up community events’ picnics and movie screenings in local parks
They have Under the Mountain and Boy to wow the (m)punters. Should be an improvement on Came a Hot Friday, which the Film Commission generously dredged from the vaults to enhance the family-oriented New Year shindy at the Hagley Park ‘events zone’.
The retro antics of Peter Bland and Billy T seem to have thoroughly underwhelmed the kiddies, one of whom described the film as ‘weird’. Looks like 1950s nostalgia has finally reached its use-by date.
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to Isabel Hitchings,
This new round bugs me because they feel different . . .
The direction is different. For example, things that might have fallen sideways along a shelf in previous shakes now fall forward onto the floor.
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Capture: Roamin' Holiday, in reply to Jackie Clark,
Speaking of flowers, I wonder if anyone can identify this one.
Thunbergia, probably thunbergia laurifolia. What you reckon?
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to Sacha,
Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority chief executive Roger Sutton said that despite the loss of power there did not seem to be any significant further damage.
Everyone just wanted a good night's sleep, he said.
Christchurch Mayor Bob Parker said he had not received reports of any significant liquefaction from the shakes overnight . . . Residents needed to remind themselves they should expect more aftershocks, following the 5.5 magnitude shake.
"So just prepare yourself for one of those shaky Canterbury days."
That seems to be how it goes when the shakes hit during the silly season.
Thenk goodness for very own homespun philosopher-kings. -
Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to Lilith __,
+++!
I'd meant to thank Islander for this jewel - just one of so many:They are indeed beautiful - striking- birds, the paradise shelducks.
Putakitakiatama (female) & putakitakiatoa (male)* are wonderful - they mate for life, and do not seem to readily remate when a partner dies. And, if you've been in a jetboat going on a West Coast stream, you'll realise why NZ Post chose a female pari (quite a while ago) for it's fastpost icon - they can easily outfly it!
While my ancestors here ate pretty well everything with wings on it, they sensibly only ate pari which were not fully fledged (and they checked all the harvest to make sure they also culled damaged birds.)
*putakitakiatama = like a child blowing a war trumpet
*putakitakiatoa =like a warrior blowing a war trumpet
(I use Kai Tahu dialect - elsewhere it'll be putangtangia-etc or some other variant of it.) -
Raining tonight in Sockburn, shortly after the shake.
Human seismograph said 4.0. Close. -
Muse: Merry Darth George Hathos Day!, in reply to Lucy Stewart,
Reckon you’re right. I’d assumed that Darth associated all forms of social engineering with the dead hand of the Clark/Cullen nanny state, now banished by the potently encouraging presence of John Key. A quick check reveals that it’s only the inept variety that attracts his beady-eyed ire.*
*That picture, FFS. Really, you could poke ’em both out with one finger.
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Hard News: Nobody wanted #EQNZ for Christmas, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
Boxing Day might be better named Buying Day. . . .
Is it a commentary on significant shifts in NZ society?Boxing Day remains a restricted trading day in NSW. They didn't flog off their union protection re. holidays and penal rates in the interests of 'deregulation'. Don't know about other Australian States. The last time I tried to buy milk in Sydney on Boxing Day it was a bit of a job to find somewhere open.
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I rather like the image of Darth "cringing" like a vampire before the cross at the sight of sloppily-dressed young journos.
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Muse: Merry Darth George Hathos Day!, in reply to Lucy Stewart,
He might not be going quietly, but FSM be praised, he’s going.
He also appears to be going soft. Who'da thunk that "sound social science research" had any place in the Darthiverse? Must be what comes of having someone who could look and sound more like someone's idea of a NZer handing out gongs.
Perhaps the grannyman with the red-framed eyeglasses will start quoting scripture now, unless Granny H has decided that he's also dead wood.
