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Ian Dalziel

Thu, 25 Oct 2018 16:04:59 +1300

An underpass with an over-hongi
– aka The Tunnel of Love...

Russell Brown

Wed, 24 Oct 2018 13:27:29 +1300

Good to hear it’s a skill he’s developed.

His local geography is still poor, but his flash-reading of the map was quite a helpful pointer as to how we fix that.

I’m resigned (and I thank you and your lad for helping me with gaining this insight) to the concept…

mark taslov

Wed, 24 Oct 2018 13:25:26 +1300

If that’s your only quibble with the article then it appears to have achieved what it set out to, but if we’re going there:

Inquiries have revealed the nomination carried the names of current National MP Jian Yang, former National MP Eric Roy and Auckland mayor Phil Goff.

Which is not…

Tom Semmens

Wed, 24 Oct 2018 12:31:06 +1300

and Tze Ming Mok explain what’s wrong better than I could

A nice article, but it is hard to call something excellent when it contains a basic error of fact, viz:

"...Putting aside whether Mr Zhang (MNZM, gonged by Labour)..."

Zhang was "gonged" by National. The timing of the release…

BenWilson

Wed, 24 Oct 2018 12:17:23 +1300

I too feel very much bummed by the news of the week. Spent the whole time painting with the family – my eldest really got into it, and I had to strongly resist the temptation to send the kids away for getting in the way. After a while, they stopped…

Russell Brown

Wed, 24 Oct 2018 08:17:40 +1300

As a positive contrast to Australia (always, always that contrast and let it only stop when Australia catches up) it’s also nice. Diwali here is pretty heavily Hindu-only, not through exclusion so much as a lot of people just don’t go along. In other suburbs attendance is much more obviously…

Moz

Tue, 23 Oct 2018 19:39:33 +1300

The Haka Bhangra was awesome. We didn't get that here but it was still great. Even in a suburb where "diversity" means "non-muslim" :) And I totally shouldn't eat all that wheaty goodness but, you know, there's a time and a place for everything.

As a positive contrast to Australia…

Russell Brown

Tue, 23 Oct 2018 17:40:12 +1300

It is worth knowing that almost all NZers had a weekend like this

I was especially pleased for my Christchurch friends who enjoyed FESTA. The festival itself sounded great, but it as clear that the big thing was simply having lots of people in the city. The CBD rebuild has…

Neil

Tue, 23 Oct 2018 17:21:39 +1300

What I took away from this past week is the urgent need for the government to put together an education campaign explaining how the acute mental health services work.

There’s been a large amount of inaccurate information going round some of which sadly has been deliberate.

Ideally it would include…

Raymond A Francis

Tue, 23 Oct 2018 14:12:03 +1300

It is worth knowing that almost all NZers had a weekend like this, unfortunately less Indian food in my case, though the dumplings with soy dip could have used chilli oil but they were close.

Of course some peoples lives changed for the worse, in the case of one MP…

Public Address

Tue, 23 Oct 2018 14:12:03 +1300

Discussion from blog post.