Posts by Rosemary McDonald
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Imagine a New Zealand without Rugby. (Yeah, I know, this is pissing on the high altar of all we hold holy....but imagine.)
No platform for Our Leader. None of this bathing in the reflected glory. None of this seeing him wrapped in the cloak of others' achievements.
Maybe folk would see him for what he is.
Stripped and laid bare, revealed for the nothing he is.
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Well, bugger me dead...Our Leader has sunk to an all time low.
I had this 'orrible feeling he might exploit Lomu's death..but FFS Key...
...what is it like at the bottom of that barrel?
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Hard News: Stories: Home, in reply to ,
Parenthood changed things,
Parenthood does that.
We have three chickens. Used to have at least three dozen, and a hard core group of free range egg buyers. Times change...but my three old, old girls still produce two ooh -ahh eggs per day, between them.
The drought of 2008 made us sit up and think re more water collection and storage.
There is a firm in Hammytown that cleans steel and plastic barrels...the 200 litre ones.
Carefully placed to catch water from the roofs of the shed, chookhouse and wee hothouse...an extra 1600l. The water in the two main tanks is for house use only.
Garden watering kept to an absolute minimum. Our half barrel herb planter never gets watered...even in drought conditions...yet new green rises out from the dry earth after rain....where there's life....for the time being
the concept of no letterbox, phone/internet/mains power....mate, I get this.
Best thing we ever did was do up our wee Bus....we leave the grown kids with the house and trappings of civilised life....then...we can enjoy the simple pleasure of coming home. -
Legal Beagle: Voting in the Flag Referendum, in reply to Russell Brown,
– and so is anyone else.
Ouch!
The NZ Flag....97 bucks!
Seriously....David's Emporium in Hammytown...$10
(Or was when I bought one a month ago for the TPP march...they might have gone up by now)
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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11544460
You guys read this, right?
and this....http://insights.nzherald.co.nz/article/the-flag-debate
I don't know how They will do it....but do it They will.
National/Key keep topping the polls, despite pretty much everyone apart from Henry/Hosking wishing them gone.
This is not rational!
I'm off to polish my hat...
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There are cynical bastards in our household who reckon the outcome is pre-determined.
Those Who Rule Us probably have the new flag at the mass manufacturing stage already.
This exercise is pantomime.
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Hard News: Stories: Home, in reply to Paul Campbell,
I hate the idea of putting in an alarm system,
!6 years of the casual country kind of living where you might lock the doors and windows but everyone knows where a key is if they're passing and call in and we're not home.
Comfy, because the house dog(s) would go off like the Baskervilles' if someone not known to them came near to the door
Cleo, the last of the hounds, took the Long Walk early last year, and the decision was made not to go to the pound again...we're hardly ever home and the house sitting Young People really didn't need the tie.
Scrotes broke in. BROKE in, glass everywhere kind of broke in. Not bright enough to see the key...but knew exactly where stuff was and what to take.
Police did come out. Glazier came out. Insurance company played hardball.
Old People were instructed to Get A Dog. Or two. Maybe another border collie?
Or two?And, as these things often unfold, Pets on the Net just happened to have two border collies needing re homing from a roughish part of the Bay of Plenty.
After nearly a year we are still trying to unravel the girls' past. They do have issues. Loud, howling, separation anxiety type issues.
But they know this is home. And we are their family.
And their mission is to guard us. Which they do with a passion.
Probably not the ideal burglar alarm for city folk, but even the security companies will tell you that the best protection out in the wops is a barking house dog.
Or two.
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Speaker: TPPA: It's Extreme, in reply to Sacha,
and that’s exactly why the resistance from many US Congresspeople/Senators will continue to be loud over the next couple of months.
I am waiting for the backlash from the US over this....http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/checkpoint/audio/201779142/us-feathers-ruffled-over-china-lease-of-port-of-darwin
I bet this went down like a cup of cold sick...
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Hard News: Stories: Home, in reply to Lilith __,
I've seen a duckling pulled under the water by a large koi carp in the Waikato Uni lakes.
Eels are partial to a feed of duckling, and hawks will take them from the sky. The very worst of nature is evidenced by the actions of pukeko. Pukeko will raid the nests and kill wandering ducklings seemingly for the hell of it. They will leave the wee corpses behind. Must be a territorial thing.Living rurally, with our own little pond surrounded by (mostly) native vegetation, we have seen many wild ducks attempt to raise their young to maturity, and as you say...its a fraught process. One year a mamaduck wandered across our lawn with 13 wee duckies. Later, another mama came through with about 8. They teamed up and managed to raise about 15 to maturity...they honed their flying skills in the skies over our home...and returned en masse a year later.
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Hard News: Stories: Home, in reply to BenWilson,
Their bodies seem to be fine tuned to whatever it is that they find naturally, and feeding them
...makes them meatier.....http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/17129/roasted-wild-duck