Public Address | Cafe | Busytown: Flying visit https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address Sam F https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-flying-visit/?p=86917#post86917 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-flying-visit/?p=86917#post86917

Ben, bro, that is the best landing story.

I hope you'll forgive a brief derail here: Gerard Hensley's Final Approaches , which I've only just gotten round to reading, is not only a fine chronicle of life in the foreign service over several decades in NZ, but is also (as…

]]> Tue, 23 Dec 2008 19:34:46 +1300 Jolisa https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-flying-visit/?p=86916#post86916 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-flying-visit/?p=86916#post86916 Tue, 23 Dec 2008 19:19:46 +1300 Deborah https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-flying-visit/?p=86909#post86909 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-flying-visit/?p=86909#post86909

Deborah, I knew we were sisters under the skin. Which one is your cuzzie again?

The gorgeous Carmel.

]]> Tue, 23 Dec 2008 18:28:29 +1300 Jackie Clark https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-flying-visit/?p=86906#post86906 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-flying-visit/?p=86906#post86906 Oh and thanks Susan for reminding me: there are now twovery fine EPs by the Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra in the shops, for your listening pleasure. And an album in the works. Rock on! I'll have to look for those, Jolisa. I do like a good ukelele orchestra – and… ]]> Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:46:22 +1300 Jolisa https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-flying-visit/?p=86904#post86904 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-flying-visit/?p=86904#post86904 two very fine EPs by the Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra in the shops, for your listening pleasure. And an album in the works. Rock on! ]]> Tue, 23 Dec 2008 16:16:21 +1300 Jolisa https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-flying-visit/?p=86898#post86898 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-flying-visit/?p=86898#post86898 Deborah, I knew we were sisters under the skin. Which one is your cuzzie again?

And yes, I'll second the recommendation for Alistair's Music. Rainbow of ukuleles on the top shelf just looking for a good home.

Ben, bro, that is the best landing story. Reminds me of flying back…

]]> Tue, 23 Dec 2008 15:45:52 +1300 Jolisa https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-flying-visit/?p=86897#post86897 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-flying-visit/?p=86897#post86897

I've always wondered if use in multiple use of colons in a single sentence was punctual sin but, hey!: if an award winning writer on words can use them with aplomb..!: I may as well imitate!

Ha! Whoops. Ah... it wasn't a mistake, it was typographical Christmas decorations. Yeah! Like…

]]> Tue, 23 Dec 2008 15:36:57 +1300 Jolisa https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-flying-visit/?p=86896#post86896 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-flying-visit/?p=86896#post86896

You know, it's really funny you caught Wellington on such a bad day, we had nothing but sun and warmth for weeks.

And you brought it back out for me on Sunday – thank you. I like it when Wellingon plays hard to get.

It's not just money, it's foreign…

]]> Tue, 23 Dec 2008 15:32:04 +1300 Benjamin Franzmayr https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-flying-visit/?p=86754#post86754 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-flying-visit/?p=86754#post86754 Merry christmas to you to Jolisa!

Benjamin

]]> Mon, 22 Dec 2008 12:33:50 +1300 Deborah https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-flying-visit/?p=86745#post86745 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-flying-visit/?p=86745#post86745 Mon, 22 Dec 2008 11:25:52 +1300 Stephen Judd https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-flying-visit/?p=86741#post86741 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-flying-visit/?p=86741#post86741 Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:48:42 +1300 Susan Snowdon https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-flying-visit/?p=86738#post86738 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-flying-visit/?p=86738#post86738 Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:40:48 +1300 Tim Michie https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-flying-visit/?p=86728#post86728 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-flying-visit/?p=86728#post86728 Thanks Jolisa!

Oh, and: buy someone you love an instrument for Christmas: DIY music will get us through this economic turbulence.

I'vealways wondered if use in multiple use of colons in a single sentence was punctual sin but, hey!: if an award winning writer on words can use them with…

]]> Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:15:56 +1300 Ben Gracewood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-flying-visit/?p=86710#post86710 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-flying-visit/?p=86710#post86710

Land into teeth of northerly gale, rediscover religion.

It was probably 5 years ago, but I still remember my "best" worst Wellington landing like it was yesterday.

After a particularly violent sideways shove (the other bumps and rolls were merely sickening), I heard the "whoop whoop" of some sort of…

]]> Mon, 22 Dec 2008 09:25:23 +1300 David Haywood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-flying-visit/?p=86696#post86696 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-flying-visit/?p=86696#post86696

... console self by reworking current project's opening scene: "FADE IN Our heroine crawls out of a crashed plane, ukulele case in hand..." Yeah, that'll work.

How about: "Our heroine (who closely resembles Julia Roberts) crawls out of a crashed plane, ukulele case in hand..."

]]> Mon, 22 Dec 2008 08:40:01 +1300 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-flying-visit/?p=86694#post86694 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-flying-visit/?p=86694#post86694

Buy a skirt as well, you big spendthrift! It's only money.

It's not just money, it's foreign exchange. Buying a skirt has never meant more.

]]> Mon, 22 Dec 2008 08:14:13 +1300 giovanni tiso https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-flying-visit/?p=86676#post86676 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-flying-visit/?p=86676#post86676 You know, it's really funny you caught Wellington on such a bad day, we had nothing but sun and warmth for weeks.

(They make you memorise this sentence – in seven languages – as a prerequisite to owning land in the city).

]]> Sun, 21 Dec 2008 22:01:21 +1300 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-flying-visit/?p=86675#post86675 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/busytown-flying-visit/?p=86675#post86675 Discussion from blog post.

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