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Roger Lacey

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 14:22:41 +1300

Bit late to the party but I guess it doesn't matter. Hope you get enough to bring your plans to fruition. Shout out if you need more, I'm sure everyone here will be happy to chip in a bit more if needed.

JacksonP

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 09:53:33 +1300

There, hopefully that tips you over the 3k threshold. Thanks Russell. It's great to be part of this.

Russell Brown

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 08:55:38 +1300

Hi all. Just to say that readers have collectively chipped in nearly $3000. I'm stoked. Thanks everyone.

Islander

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 17:48:07 +1300

Carol, many thanks for those links – which led on to other links which led to 2 rich hours of reading...

Paul Campbell

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 17:36:08 +1300

and the murders, why does she write about the murders ... if I lived there I'd have had her chased out of town years ago ..... the place would be so much safer

Geoff Lealand

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 12:04:21 +1300

.... and the migrating whales offshore, the wonderful wild flowers on the clifftops and the curious old watertowers...and the lovely song by Kate & Anne McGarrigle

Paul Campbell

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 09:51:09 +1300

Mendicino .... a nice foggy little tourist town, most known for its large number of fictional murders ... and the pot grown inland

Joe Wylie

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 09:20:33 +1300

. . . my brother’s home in Mendocino CA.
Mendocino!
You blow your mind in the mornin' . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68mrzmDg5jo

Geoff Lealand

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 08:52:09 +1300

The Taramakau dredge! Once camped overnight on a scrap of land nearby and oh, it was a restless night. Such fiendish grinding and wrenching.

Photos in barns: must dig out a great photo taken inside an abandoned and huge American barn down the hill from my brother's home in Mendocino…

Carol Stewart

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 00:25:08 +1300

may I note my sadness at the not-unexpected death of Hitchins?

Nice appreciation here from his friend Ian McEwan.

This is rather good too – Hitchens takes on Nietzche, and wins, I think.

Lilith __

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 23:40:21 +1300

Stripeys and family in Avonside a couple of months back.

Great pics, Joe!

pictures of streamlined Buck Rogers-style cars and planes, and a large depiction of a boxer fighting a tiger. Wished I’d had a camera.

One of my recurring nightmares is of seeing something amazing and not having a…

Lilith __

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 23:36:40 +1300

*putakitakiatama = like a child blowing a war trumpet
*putakitakiatoa =like a warrior blowing a war trumpet

thanks for the explanation, that is exactly what they sound like. :-)

Here in quack city we also have loads of scaup now we have enough native scrub along the riverbanks for them…

Joe Wylie

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 23:21:48 +1300

Stripeys and family in Avonside a couple of months back.

Amazing how the bush takes these places back, though.
Amazingly fast sometimes. In the late 60s the houses from the former timber mill at Kotuku were only distinguishable as mounds of blackberry with the occasional chimney. although they'd only been…

Ian Dalziel

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 23:20:13 +1300

Ducks deluxe...
But since then they’ve taken the city back!
It's the new City slogan:
Christchurch, there's quacks everywhere...
(but really we're just wading for the Man...)

Islander

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 23:18:51 +1300

ince then they’ve taken the city back!

Am so glad to learn that Lilith!

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…

Lilith __

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:56:44 +1300

10 stripey kiddies, eh?? And they can run quite fast but often in random directions!
I remember some years ago going to visit a pair down by the Heathcote in Sydenham when they were a rarity here. They are so handsome. But since then they’ve taken the city back! They’re…

Islander

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:44:55 +1300

A fortnight ago I came back from Franz to home – and was halted by a line of vehicles at the corner going into Big O.
WTF?
Walked down the road a wee bit and-
there was Mum Pari with about 5 round her, and Dad Pari trying his frustrated…

Lilith __

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:33:36 +1300

Are there still glow worms in the tunnel
through to the swing bridge?

Absolutely! Although I haven’t been there since…(checks)…2003. I remember being very chuffed to get quite close to a mob of paradise ducklings in the creek. That was before Chch was full of them and they were no…

Islander

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:26:38 +1300

I was always intrigued by that tannin colour of the creek
and can remember catching trout for breakfast

Almost all Coast creeks have the tannin colour (obviously not the glacier-fed ones!)
It used to be my pleasure to go for eels for whanau brekkies from the local 3 creeks- oath,…

Islander

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:18:57 +1300

The last dredge in the Grey valley – indeed, on the West Coast, recently stopped operations. I can still remember what the Taramakau one sounded like...

and as for what West Coast explosive storage methods were like – aargh!

Ian Dalziel

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:18:52 +1300

Nelson Creek, eh! Now a delightful camping spot.
Are there still glow worms in the tunnel
through to the swing bridge?
I was always intrigued by that tannin colour of the creek
and can remember catching trout for breakfast
and gaffing eels at night in it...
aaah, West Coast time…

Islander

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:15:26 +1300

There are still bits of an old dredge in the 3-mile lagoon -that's the only one I know of that made it to these environs...

Lilith __

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:15:06 +1300

With plenty of adits and tunnels

Lilith __

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:13:37 +1300

Nelson Creek

Nelson Creek, eh! Now a delightful camping spot.

Ian Dalziel

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:00:49 +1300

Quicksilver Messengers...
went to manage a dredging venture at Okarito
My dad's father was a dredge master in the Grey Valley and environs,
including round Nelson Creek where they lived, Dad and his brothers
also had a claim near the deep lead up from the Creek.
I only ever went…

Joe Wylie

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 16:30:52 +1300

The ring weighs one troy ounce, and This too shall pass is engraved, in runes,
on the inside.
Thanks Islander. My engineer ancestor William Wylie spent his working life in mining ventures, including Preservation Inlet, Ross, Central Otago, and Australia. According to his 1924 obituary, at one stage he "went…

Lilith __

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 15:50:43 +1300

I always had some of the beach with me…

Fantastic.

Islander

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 15:46:01 +1300

No – my claim was on the south beach...I have some amalgam (here, a mix of flour gold (it's actually much finer than that) and mercury) as a souvenir of that long ago time.
But my neighbours had a good claim over on the north beach and I bought a…

R A Hurley

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 15:40:06 +1300

i just surfed here from (accidentally, i promise you!) reading the comments on a stuff.co.nz story... my mind thus filled with a toxic black ooze, i clicked over to PA to see a request for donations... and i thought "yes! take ALL of my money, just PLEASE don't leave me…

Lilith __

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 15:23:44 +1300

Sounds great. Did you find the gold yourself?

Islander

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 14:26:38 +1300

this too shall pass.

I have that round my ring.

The Okarito beach gold one, on my left middle finger, of course...

Paul Campbell

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 13:24:41 +1300

done, and thanks to everyone at PA!

Sacha

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 12:04:01 +1300

Jose is going to *love* that comparison.

Geoff Lealand

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 09:54:11 +1300

The direct link is http://www.cstonline.tv/media-eats-media but the home site is worth visiting.

Geoff Lealand

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 09:49:19 +1300

Russell; in celebration of PAS and your associated activities, I have dedicated my latest guest blog ('Media eats media') for the UK site Critical Studies in Television Online http://www.cstonline.tv to Media 7. Take a look and tell me what you think (and pass it on to Phil and the team?]

Islander

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 01:44:55 +1300

To us all-

Lilith __

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 00:14:19 +1300

So it goes.

And this too shall pass. Hmmm. Well good luck.

Islander

Sat, 17 Dec 2011 00:04:24 +1300

It is, Lilith – but I have a place I hope I can sell – plenty others dont ( i am thinking of Joe Bennet – check out Beattie's book site...) anyway, such is life. So it goes. You know the author!

Lilith __

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 23:56:19 +1300

Oh Islander, what a nuisance. I do hope you find somewhere you can flourish in, and soon.

Islander

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 23:44:56 +1300

At the moment, I cant donate anything – I am selling my home to pay unsustainable debt & find a a lesser new place: when I do, I will make a donation because this is a life-sustaining site- cheers to us all!

Lilith __

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:51:52 +1300

Um, what's the name on the account, Russell? My IB won't accept just the number.

thegirlstefan

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 13:35:46 +1300

hi Russell

Jim Mora has just mentioned your request for support on his show on National Radio (they're doing some sort of story on Richard McManus later this afternoon)

Deborah

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 12:45:57 +1300

As others have said, I'm very glad to have the opportunity to support PAS, and glad to be able to do so.

Kimberley Verburg

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 02:26:19 +1300

I'm glad you're doing this. To me, it feels less like donating and more like paying for a really good magazine subscription.

Greg Dawson

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 00:30:14 +1300

Can’t be having with that – into the pit!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFKtTi1R4-E
(sorry, couldn't easily find a clip that was just the first thirty seconds)

nic.wise

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 00:00:30 +1300

Sorted. Thanks for "letting" us contribute.

Ross Mason

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 21:10:18 +1300

Wrong post..

Geoff Lealand

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 20:37:19 +1300

More likely to be waving garden rakes and secateurs with this lot.

DexterX

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 20:31:54 +1300

Thanks for the love, my festive wish to you all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gQFDjDPPHk

DexterX

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 20:23:18 +1300

Welcome to the peasantry – in hard times rest assured that others of your kind will likely see you through, the downside is that you only get to keep 10 to 20% of what you earn.

"Same as it ever was."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0X2GD5C_wHY

Sacha

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 20:17:33 +1300

it's like a flash mob, only more rural

Jackie Clark

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 20:02:41 +1300

pitchfork waving social mob How exciting. I've never been part of one of those, before.

Sacha

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 19:50:54 +1300

the pitchfork waving social mob

waved with love, mind

DexterX

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 19:26:32 +1300

Tis but a small token of my appreciation in providing a forum that enables a contrary miopic view to be presented and measured against a range of contrary views that also include at times the chorus of the pitchfork waving social mob that IMHO masquareades as the liberal all caring…

Geoff Lealand

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 18:51:02 +1300

Done and dusted. Have yourself a great Christmas,

dyan campbell

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:53:01 +1300

Done, with pleasure. Thanks for all your hard work Russell (& people-behind-the-scenes-of-Russell). This is an incredibly useful forum, and hopefully I will have more time to spend here next year.

Euan Mason

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:48:09 +1300

Done. Thanks for all your hard work. Have a great Christmas.

Euan

Jackie Clark

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:15:39 +1300

I've put PAS as one of my payees so now I can just drop a bit in whenever I feel like it. Wish I'd thought of it before.

Greg Dawson

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:54:00 +1300

Happy to help. Although that account number looks a little beastly.

Lilith __

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:00:21 +1300

If I had to add up how many hours of distraction, I mean delight, I get from this place...see what I can do. :-)

Isaac Freeman

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:47:02 +1300

I've put in a little too. I've not always been heavily involved in Public Address, but it's been a presence in my life for many years.

Dee Morgan

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:24:52 +1300

Done. And that's the least I could do – you're one of those sites that deserves it without reservation!

Public Address

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:24:52 +1300

Discussion from blog post.