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Glenn Pearce

Wed, 29 Apr 2020 09:35:36 +1200

A little bit of goodness came from lockdown, #quaranteenagedirtbag from Wheatus, my daughter flying the NZ flag at 1:23 and 3:22. Recorded in our garage :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehTe8-tC0Tw&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR1GVMrSqV7IFND3vjYGQ1Afz3DaMOuxFKQviEop7_unXxsOnVxrKLGgyGg

Shep Cheyenne

Mon, 27 Apr 2020 15:47:38 +1200

Labour has come to the party for the homeless. Great work and commitment to look after the homeless during and after the Covid-19 crisis.

linger

Sat, 25 Apr 2020 13:50:06 +1200

So, what's been happening in Japan since my last update? Nothing good.

Excerpts from the Japan Times daily roundups to April 25th.

April 16th
Police warn that burglaries and scam operations are increasing as more children are left home alone.
Osaka asks residents for unused raincoats for medical staff to…

Paul Campbell

Sat, 25 Apr 2020 00:50:19 +1200

OK, best thing ever ....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nZQRt4BXr8

Ian Dalziel

Fri, 24 Apr 2020 20:38:57 +1200

I wish Wallace would bluster less.
It feels like at least a tenth of of his 'air time' is "ummm, ahhhh, errr' and other space/time fillers – and lots of arrant nonsense getting people to text in on the slightest pretext – is that time-chewing or revenue gathering?

Geoff Lealand

Fri, 24 Apr 2020 16:55:55 +1200

Good to have you on The Panel today, Russell. But I wish Wallace would bluster less.

Shep Cheyenne

Thu, 23 Apr 2020 11:37:58 +1200

The question is then what will follow?
All efforts to date are to keep riding the dead horse of capitalism.
TINA – there is no alternate.
Who is offering an alternative to our current system, certainly not Grant Robertson. He is the cheif surgeon trying to revive capitalism.
And that's…

Alfie

Wed, 22 Apr 2020 22:41:23 +1200

...victory for right wing economic policy

Say what? I'd suggest that you sit a couple of rows further back, cos from here the worldwide picture looks a lot the breakdown and failure of late stage capitalism.

Shep Cheyenne

Wed, 22 Apr 2020 19:00:33 +1200

Indeed a victory for right wing economic policy, even as everything receives state intervention supports from capitalist businesses and workers alike. Ironic eh!

Alfie

Wed, 22 Apr 2020 18:25:30 +1200

Labour isn’t the workers party.
I'm not sure what sort of militant left you could expect in NZ as both of our main parties are fairly centrist. Voters have a choice between centrist-compassion and centrist-greed. However policies which focus on equality with better access to healthcare, housing and education tend…

linger

Wed, 22 Apr 2020 17:57:19 +1200

Labour isn't the workers party.But then, who is? The Greens' silence maybe isn't so surprising, as they very publicly amputated their socialist wing just before the 2017 elections. (And I say that as someone who wants the Greens to stay in Parliament … and as someone who may be left…

Shep Cheyenne

Wed, 22 Apr 2020 14:37:46 +1200

Saw the PMs Covid-19 briefing today.
She's doing a fine job, but from the party that brought you the 40hour week. I found it interesting that her praise for cleaners was in working 13hour days for the Police.
It says alot about the Police that they encourage this working environment…

Simon Armstrong

Tue, 21 Apr 2020 14:04:44 +1200

This is obviously never going to work. Fuck you all I’m leaving.

Steven, if you are reading this I hope you are doing OK. Just been reading some of your earlier posts and suspect we share a similar shaped boat.

Alfie

Mon, 20 Apr 2020 13:13:46 +1200

Done!

Thanks Russell. ;-)

I suspect livestreamed concerts from NZ may also become a thing. And possibly some sports. With multi-million-dollar stars involved, two weeks quarantine in a comfortable setting as part of the package doesn't sound too bad.

Russell Brown

Mon, 20 Apr 2020 09:19:17 +1200

And there will be positives like having one of the only places in the world with a workable film industry.

Yeah, I guess, once things settle down. Two weeks' quarantine could be built into the production workflow.

Russell Brown

Mon, 20 Apr 2020 09:18:07 +1200

So any follows, likes and general good karma would be appreciated by this newbie

Done!

Alfie

Sun, 19 Apr 2020 22:55:32 +1200

As I pointed out on Twitter earlier, the thielites and the like most of us would rather keep out are probably already here, hiding in their bunkers. The rest of the world knows a little about our covid response but nobody is coming here for at least a year or…

linger

Sun, 19 Apr 2020 11:47:33 +1200

I worry that applying that label "Safest place in the world"
is just telling a faultline to bring it on…

I also note Japan is unlabelled.
Should I be more worried about that prediction?

Shep Cheyenne

Sun, 19 Apr 2020 10:26:35 +1200

True that and what we did to Samoa 22% death rate due to indifference towards the captured colony amounts to a war crime.

Alfie

Sun, 19 Apr 2020 08:22:48 +1200

I've been wondering at what our world may look like in 12 months whilst doodling on a world map. As you do. Conclusion? Godzone looks like the best place to be for a good while to come.

Here's a link to a higher res version — 8,192 x 4,096 px…

Simon Armstrong

Sat, 18 Apr 2020 12:56:49 +1200

To add a little context : in 2020 we still have many of the conditions which led to the appalling death rate of almost 5% of all Māori from influenza in 1918-19.

Sacha

Sat, 18 Apr 2020 12:40:00 +1200

Mike Smith.

Shep Cheyenne

Sat, 18 Apr 2020 06:37:17 +1200

I was interested to see the Hokianga checkpoints.
My concern isn't so much the legality so much as the cowboy nature of the stops.
To keep the checkpoint crew safe, you should reduce the speed of the traffic, and some safety distance from the cars coming up behind should be…

linger

Fri, 17 Apr 2020 18:09:40 +1200

dystopian authoritarian government
Actually, I thought I was arguing for government by informed consent.

Alfie

Fri, 17 Apr 2020 16:31:47 +1200

...dystopian authoritarian government

You haven't been listening to Hosking and his death cult, have you? Cos authoritarian control tends to be more of a right wing thing, in my experience. And being the country which shines for its kindness and compassion during a pandemic is far from dystopian.

I guess…

Shep Cheyenne

Thu, 16 Apr 2020 15:38:41 +1200

Fair enough the virus will dictate the response, but I don't see any need to creep into a dystopian authoritarian government any time soon.

linger

Thu, 16 Apr 2020 14:47:58 +1200

But it won’t be needed to be extended. Tell that to the virus. It's not running for office. If the aim remains eradication, then some extension could be necessary — but not an indefinite extension. Hence the need for the government to announce, in advance, how they will decide what…

Shep Cheyenne

Thu, 16 Apr 2020 13:42:35 +1200

But it won't be needed to be extended.
The government has an 88% approval rating on their handling of the Crisis and in September an election to ride the wave of support.
Although they have the power they will also have the wisdom that they will achieve more with out…

Ian Dalziel

Thu, 16 Apr 2020 12:12:34 +1200

(C.K.) Steady as she goes department...
...timely Sleeping Dogs reference
For the younger readers...
a reference to explain the reference removed
a reference of frames, the stirrings of a nascent industry...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-3GMt5i-Lc

https://www.audioculture.co.nz/scenes/new-zealand-popular-music-at-the-movies-1964-to-2014

Simon Armstrong

Thu, 16 Apr 2020 11:21:30 +1200

Reviewing recent Law Socity info about State of National Emergency we are under here there is nothing stopping Civil Defence Minsiter (sp) Peeni Henare extending this holiday from democracy for as long as he likes.

[edit] untimely Sleeping Dogs reference removed

Geoff Lealand

Thu, 16 Apr 2020 09:04:46 +1200

Not sure where I should post this but I am seeking help with a research project. I was approached last week to assist the participation of NZ children in international research on 9 to 13 year olds and their experiences of the current crisis. It is being led by Maya…

linger

Thu, 16 Apr 2020 00:13:16 +1200

In a democracy, any policy response limiting freedom of movement needs to come with very clear entry and exit criteria. Both NZ and Japan have initially fixed on an arbitrary time limit (four weeks; a month), without trying to set in advance any clear evidence-based criterion for an earlier or…

linger

Wed, 15 Apr 2020 23:26:07 +1200

Agreed.
I keep coming back to NZ / Tokyo because it does illustrate a comparison between two different policy responses with different aims: respectively,
(i) rapidly enforced lockdown, with the ambitious goal of eradicating Covid-19 from New Zealand; and
(ii) a gradual increase in restrictions on movement, stopping short of…

John Farrell

Wed, 15 Apr 2020 13:08:02 +1200

The problem with so much that we think we know about covid 19, is that it comes from unverified uncontrolled studies reported in the media. We won't know about the behaviour of the virus until scientists have completed controlled studies.

linger

Wed, 15 Apr 2020 12:43:38 +1200

NO new cases for a weekTo clarify: among people not already in quarantine. Level 2 presumes there is no community transmission, so if new cases are limited to those not in community contact (e.g. recent returnees) then that isn’t a barrier to moving out of lockdown, through Level 3, back…

Neil

Wed, 15 Apr 2020 12:32:17 +1200

But I don’t think this is the thread for such a discussion, TBH. I’m not even sure this is the site.

Yes, I don’t have any other social media venues to express thoughts, but fair point.

BenWilson

Wed, 15 Apr 2020 10:41:41 +1200

There’s certainly some not particularly good arguments at present for an early end to lockdown but some of the arguments are worth considering, they are appear to be in good faith.

Yes, whatever the facts of the virus itself are, and time will certainly tell on that, it seems likely…

linger

Wed, 15 Apr 2020 09:40:24 +1200

Japan Covid-19 roundup for April 8th-14th
excerpted from the Japan Times, supplemented with figures from Nippon.com

April 8th
State of emergency comes into effect, after being foreshadowed on April 6th and officially announced on April 7th.
Tokyo logs 144 new cases.
(The relatively low daily increases on April 6th (88)…

Neil

Wed, 15 Apr 2020 08:54:25 +1200

There’s certainly some not particularly good arguments at present for an early end to lockdown but some of the arguments are worth considering, they are appear to be in good faith.

I support the lockdown and would support its extension if that is the best option.

I do though recall…

Ian Dalziel

Tue, 14 Apr 2020 20:20:04 +1200

Let’s see what happens…
De-Doctored!!

Now if we can just get a business editor into the Jane Bowron aisle:
There's nothing super about these markets that are taking our money overseas
She seems to think all our supermarkets are Australian-owned, when NZ-owned Foodstuffs has about 53% of the duopoly.

It's easy…

Shep Cheyenne

Tue, 14 Apr 2020 18:30:20 +1200

I've noticed the rise in Economic Eugenics. Hooten & Morgan seem to be the chief cheerleaders in a truly grotesque dance of death.
Sacrificing our loved ones. I suspect in Morgan's case feverish anticipation of inherentance windfall that intergenerational transfer of wealth. I have no proof of this, it seems consistent…

Ian Dalziel

Tue, 14 Apr 2020 12:11:03 +1200

I see another grumpy skeptic weighing in on Stuff today – I had to write and get them to reconsider his given name:
Folks
this 'piece' of posturing – https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/news/120993729/coronavirus-springtime-in-paris-is-eerily-empty-due-to-the-covid19-lockdown – is attributed to a Dr Theodore Dalrymple – no such legitimate doctor exists.
Theodore Dalrymple is the pseudonym of an **Anthony…

Alfie

Tue, 14 Apr 2020 11:57:29 +1200

…I wonder if Trump ever takes a bath?

Do financial losses from multiple casino failures count?

Shep Cheyenne

Tue, 14 Apr 2020 11:56:43 +1200

I fear this is a group of wing nut Drs, more fearful in the drop of student numbers and therefore their jobs than the health of the community.
Especially that they had no models to back up their position.

Ian Dalziel

Tue, 14 Apr 2020 11:34:55 +1200

Now there’s a word you don’t hear very often
‘Tumbrels’ may make a comeback too…

…I wonder if Trump ever takes a bath?
Leader of the revolutionary swamp-draining sans-a-belt movement that he is…

Alfie

Tue, 14 Apr 2020 11:18:39 +1200

"Defenestrated." Now there's a word you don't hear very often. ;-)

Ian Dalziel

Tue, 14 Apr 2020 10:51:59 +1200

Surely Thornley was discredited the last time he opened his mouth?
He was being given oxygen on Morning Report t0day – I damn near defenestrated the radio!
He seems to think 540-odd recovered people gives NZ communities herd immunity.
He should stick to ‘faddy lipids’…

Alfie

Tue, 14 Apr 2020 10:45:49 +1200

Wassup Stuff? Surely Thornley was discredited the last time he opened his mouth?

One of the other “health experts” (Stuff’s term) include one with expertise in “experimental economics.” While genuine “health experts” are focussed on saving lives, economists justify hypothetical arguments for acceptable death rates.

This is not a time…

Neil

Tue, 14 Apr 2020 10:36:56 +1200

I was interested in what he had to say, not in complete agreement, but a viewpoint worth hearing.

I’d be keen to see if there’s a broad difference of opinion among epidemiologists based on if they came through via a maths or medicine background.

Shep Cheyenne

Tue, 14 Apr 2020 10:01:05 +1200

I was concerned to hear talk of an alternate approach being put forward by a group of academics.

Doing a little search Dr Thornley is an epidemiologist in fat people and sugar.

I feel this should have been made clear when interviewing on RNZ this morning, not quite apples to…

Alfie

Sat, 11 Apr 2020 11:42:24 +1200

This thread feels like it's regaining some kindness. And that has to be a good thing. Stay sensible everyone.

Sacha

Fri, 10 Apr 2020 12:12:14 +1200

welcome

Shep Cheyenne

Fri, 10 Apr 2020 12:10:08 +1200

Thanks Sacha

Neil

Fri, 10 Apr 2020 09:21:36 +1200

Only a few percent of the population think the government has gone too far.

I think it’s possible to consider the demands for more action quicker are reasonable and to understand the government can’t act instantaneously.

Part of the delay process to some decisions has been to allow time to…

Sacha

Thu, 09 Apr 2020 21:11:49 +1200

“I’m forever blowing bubbles”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfvegiuYHB4

Trevor Nicholls

Thu, 09 Apr 2020 18:59:54 +1200

It's asymmetrical support though; the people demanding that we can't trust returning kiwis at the airport are the same cohort trying to drive to their holiday homes in the Coromandel for the weekend.

Neil

Thu, 09 Apr 2020 17:47:13 +1200

I think the Prime Minister and Leader of the Opposition are playing their respective parts quite well.

The government has wanted to introduce quite draconian limits on individual freedom. What better support than the party of individual freedoms demanding it be done quicker.

andin

Thu, 09 Apr 2020 13:44:35 +1200

Empathy doesnt seem to be dealt out equally among us all. Probably a reason why we ended up with this fucked up system called capitalism as a default here in westworld.
When we come out of lockdown there will be a scramble to kick start it up again those with…

Rob Stowell

Thu, 09 Apr 2020 11:52:05 +1200

I eill keep bukh engine for you sure.

Nothing like a good bukh in a crisis :) I look after (not very well :( ) a bukh 10 that just keeps forgiving me for stuffing up, and runs, a little smokily, but so solid, all day. I'm not a fan…

Simon Armstrong

Wed, 08 Apr 2020 10:48:26 +1200

Loving the Lockdown letters at The Spinoff.

And Pell walks free

Shep Cheyenne

Wed, 08 Apr 2020 09:29:40 +1200

I can't seem to do it on my phone, but would a kind soul uplink Dean Martins version of "I'm forever blowing bubbles" in honour of Simon Bridges dissonance regarding our current condition?

linger

Wed, 08 Apr 2020 09:04:36 +1200

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSGtg26-TpU

Simon Armstrong

Wed, 08 Apr 2020 08:47:05 +1200

Wait up, I'll come with you.

Ian Dalziel

Tue, 07 Apr 2020 21:51:30 +1200

an easy new ‘social distancing’ measure
= at least 1 adult kangaroo apart
Otherwise known as 'The OK Boomer" ?

Geoff Lealand

Tue, 07 Apr 2020 20:58:46 +1200

A venture worth supporting: a compilation album to provide financial support for Ivan of the Nivara Lounge, the great music venue in downtown Hamilton.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/120877429/bats-bannister-feature-on-compilation-album-to-support-shut-down-live-music-venue

Shep Cheyenne

Tue, 07 Apr 2020 15:43:02 +1200

I did not know his family position.
Still service in a crisis require some sacrifice, as the rest of the country (except the Crusaders, the West Coast Cop, Surfers, MPs and the other chosen few) are doing.

Simon Armstrong

Tue, 07 Apr 2020 15:26:28 +1200

Bludger is a pretty negative self identity.

Thanks Steven, I agree and regret my callous choice of words.

I am not sure what day it is but hope you are having a good one.

Ian Dalziel

Tue, 07 Apr 2020 15:24:34 +1200

What are people’s thoughts on Simon Bridges Intercity commute?
He sure seems to be getting a lot of ‘love’ at The Guardian at the moment for some reason…
One puff piece by a Charlotte Graham-McLay
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/05/simon-bridges-the-former-prosecutor-who-faces-his-greatest-trial-against-nice-person-ardern
and a piece he wrote all by himself
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/03/in-the-absence-of-parliament-we-must-ensure-new-zealands-response-to-covid-19-is-the-best-it-can-be
Speaking of which the first…

linger

Tue, 07 Apr 2020 13:56:10 +1200

Another week’s Covid-19 roundup from the Japan Times

April 1st
Tottori Prefectural Government has begun using cardboard and plastic sheets as partitions between officials’ desks. Officials explicitly deny that this is an April Fools’ prank.

April 2nd
Tokyo logs 97 new cases.

April 3rd
Total Covid-19 infections in Japan reach…

Shep Cheyenne

Tue, 07 Apr 2020 09:55:39 +1200

Apologies for my porn star name everything else was taken, I'm Michael.

What are people's thoughts on Simon Bridges Intercity commute?

It reminds me of how Judges would act "the rules do not apply to me" when I worked in the Courts.

Surely he has a Wellington address by which…

linger

Mon, 06 Apr 2020 15:55:17 +1200

lady out walking her husband
That certainly conjures up an image.
(But not of the emoji, which I have no referent for.)

Simon Armstrong

Mon, 06 Apr 2020 15:26:54 +1200

How’s your day going?

Typically odd. A conversation with stranger climbing local maunga concerning clear night skies due to lack of Oz fires and vehicle pollution was rudely interrupted by phone call from Work and Income to verify some details of my application as first time bludger. During which, lady…

Simon Armstrong

Mon, 06 Apr 2020 12:01:26 +1200

Lighting an open fire?

Just, wow.

Geoff Lealand

Mon, 06 Apr 2020 09:42:42 +1200

Excellent suggestion. Done!

Geoff Lealand

Mon, 06 Apr 2020 09:25:45 +1200

Many thanks for this. I have directed it to my daughter in Shibuya.

linger

Sun, 05 Apr 2020 17:37:42 +1200

There’s a kind of controlled experiment in progress right now, if you want to try to assess the effect of New Zealand’s “fast and hard” lockdown measures.
Coincidentally, the number of cases in Tokyo is roughly the same, and has been increasing at roughly the same rate, as the number…

linger

Sun, 05 Apr 2020 13:57:31 +1200

Professor David Spiegelhalter on the risks of Covid-19 from More or Less 28/03/20 (9 minutes; stream or MP3 download)
Headline result is that the mortality risk profile from Covid-19 among adults is much the same as the mortality risk profile in general. Essentially, contracting the virus has the effect of…

Worik

Sat, 04 Apr 2020 08:00:57 +1300

I'll bight...

My daughter was getting mentally prepared to leave Melbourne for NZ (after five years as a street poet... other story that makes her dad proud) as Australia was "literally and figuratively on fire". But plan was to do it some time this year, or next. No rush....

On…

Russell Brown

Fri, 03 Apr 2020 17:31:24 +1300

Thanks guys. I have indeed been thinking about Public Address and Press Patron as a readymade, modest income stream. I expect to be posting a lot more here – and I'm really keen to get Fiona back on her old TV blog, as soon as she's officially no longer a…

Neil

Thu, 02 Apr 2020 19:47:40 +1300

Have had lots of disagreements with RB but he’s always been a voice of clarity. Much needed now. Will definitely support.

Paul Campbell

Thu, 02 Apr 2020 19:02:34 +1300

A reminder that PA needs money to operate, I suspect that Russell's been carry the load as it has quietened down, and after today's news that's likely harder for him – I'd like to suggest that old timers who have found themselves back again hit that "supporter" button above

Moz

Thu, 02 Apr 2020 14:25:09 +1300

I've just realised that there's a complete album of all my friends online:
https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/

(my response to Charlie Stross claiming that his sock puppet accounts were real people and he had photos of them)

Ian Dalziel

Thu, 02 Apr 2020 13:39:56 +1300

...someone’s failed ‘herd immunity’ strategy
Or 'Herd mentality' as I heard Trump refer to it as, today (he also 'misheard' a question about the rise in 'Domestic violence' as 'Mexican violence' – he never misses a chance...)

Forget 'Dunning / Kruger' I'd like to see the UK's skyrocketing 'death line…

Neil

Thu, 02 Apr 2020 10:19:15 +1300

When i was young I spent quite a few years overseas. Deciding to come back I went to the NZ embassy in Paris. Sat down to wait and saw besides me a pile of Listeners.

For some reason that particular memory has always remained vivid.

Robert Harvey

Wed, 01 Apr 2020 13:17:59 +1300

As so often, XKCD has the apt quotation:
https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/pathogen_resistance.png

Nora Leggs

Wed, 01 Apr 2020 13:13:27 +1300

Good one Russell, I'm onto it.... :)

Russell Brown

Wed, 01 Apr 2020 13:06:07 +1300

Maybe a good excuse for a pictorial thread.

We could club in on one. I have two or three lockdown shots I'd let out in public.

Nora Leggs

Wed, 01 Apr 2020 12:31:39 +1300

Hi PA community. It's been a while, but this lockdown has spurred a fresh wave of enthusiasm for photographing small objects. Will this enthusiasm last as long as the lockdown?? Hard to say.

Maybe a good excuse for a pictorial thread.

We'll see. It may be one more pleasant distraction…

Alfie

Wed, 01 Apr 2020 12:01:35 +1300

Thanks Linger. There is so much bad news worldwide at the moment, some of it predictable thanks to state incompetence. The chaos currently raging through the US, the UK suffering the consequences of someone's failed 'herd immunity' strategy and whatever hell may be about to befall Sweden. But I certainly…

linger

Tue, 31 Mar 2020 19:08:43 +1300

Highlights from Japan’s coronavirus response, Mar 24-31
Excerpted from the Japan Times Covid roundup page

Mar 25th
Tokyo logs 41 new cases.
Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike asks people to avoid going outside over the weekend for nonessential reasons.

Mar 26th
In response, Tokyo shoppers rush out and panic buy.

**Mar…

Geoff Lealand

Mon, 30 Mar 2020 17:00:01 +1300

The first trip in 8 days outside the gate, to deliver a bag of homegrown bananas and feijoas to a friend’s letterbox. Rode the West Rail Trail which follows the rails and skirts Lake Rotoroa, Rather good.

Alfie

Mon, 30 Mar 2020 15:35:56 +1300

For us, this is day #14 of isolation with our daughter who returned from Germany after four years away. Entering isolation two weeks ago, we agreed that 4:20pm today would be our official first hugs & cuddles time. That seemed appropriate.

We've played it by the book throughout and to be…

Bart Janssen

Mon, 30 Mar 2020 12:08:10 +1300

Hi All
Nice to see the community popping up again. Be nice to see a few more of the old faces here too.

Without wishing to be depressing I wanted to link this article.

It’s been doing the rounds and is pretty clear on what is guesswork and what is…

Ian Dalziel

Mon, 30 Mar 2020 11:00:23 +1300

Can someone pop down to parliament and run off a few copies of that nice Ms Ardern for us?

Monoclonal PMs would have the slogan "I'm unity"

Now we just need something to mop up the 'free radicals' who think they can do whatever they want in the community at…

Moz

Mon, 30 Mar 2020 10:51:16 +1300

Awesome, deserves to go, uh, viral.

Paul Campbell

Mon, 30 Mar 2020 10:32:59 +1300

I'm rather enjoying this little polemic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BA9eTXwGIk

Moz

Mon, 30 Mar 2020 10:09:37 +1300

My employer in Australia is being very blunt: I can choose to work from home, but if there are any problems I have to come in to the office. Any costs incurred are entirely mine, and I should be grateful that they are being so reasonable about my silly panic.…

Geoff Lealand

Mon, 30 Mar 2020 09:36:29 +1300

My daughter Catherine Rose, who lives and teaches in Shibuya, has been ranting about the casual attitude in Japan to the virus. She has more students to teach and says the company she works for is resisting the idea of paying salaries in the event of closure. In the meantime,…

Ray Gilbert

Mon, 30 Mar 2020 09:35:58 +1300

At least in Auckland it does. My wife has been reasigned from the CADS detox unit which has been shut down to AODS in CADS South. All discussions are by phone rather than in person but the team are still having to work from site at the moment.

Trevor Nicholls

Mon, 30 Mar 2020 07:06:10 +1300

Good hand cleanliness and distancing yourself from others are key to avoiding this virus:
https://youtu.be/YitWZj9QhdQ

Paul Campbell

Sun, 29 Mar 2020 23:37:04 +1300

So far almost all of our cases have been imported, most directly into 2 weeks quarantine – I suspect that that messes with how it changes here (hopefully to our advantage) – it's possible that a lot of the rise in numbers we're seeing right now have been generated by…

linger

Sun, 29 Mar 2020 23:24:23 +1300

Meanwhile, my university seems to be lumbering towards a decision to Bring The Students Back! whether they want to come back or not, and even if this might increase the risk to each student.
NZ: rate of increase in cases starting to slow March 29th (Wikipedia page);
Japan: daily figures…

Paul Campbell

Sun, 29 Mar 2020 23:10:40 +1300

Linger: thanks for that, I spent the previous 2 weeks talking my son down from his planned trip to Japan (he had been in the Jet program for 2 years there), luckily we did finally manage to convince him

Moz

Sun, 29 Mar 2020 22:42:08 +1300

Things are getting serious here, they’ve closed outdoor gyms! Also, households of more than two people are now strongly discouraged. If you’re a couple with three or more kids it’s time to pick the two you like most and take one each :)

the Government is now strongly advising against…

Ian Dalziel

Sun, 29 Mar 2020 13:15:23 +1300

Rare Heart
I’d like to share a You Tube channel I have been enjoying – Rare Earth here’s their latest one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF7wKayTq8o
– I recommend dipping into their back catalogue and balanced world view…
(the 5-part series on the Balkans was excellent – now compiled into a long version )…

linger

Sun, 29 Mar 2020 10:41:53 +1300

On March 8th my department sent students to Vic for the 3-month English Proficiency Program. NZ looked a safer bet than staying in Japan, and so I followed them out the next week, with a return booked March 31st to get back for the start of the next academic year.…

Russell Brown

Sat, 28 Mar 2020 20:20:41 +1300

I assume methadone distribution (or modern equivalent) continues as well…

Even better, the lockdown has finally got naloxone widely distributed – because nobody wants emergency staff tied up with overdose cases.

It's remarkable how many things look sensible now ...

Russell Brown

Sat, 28 Mar 2020 20:17:57 +1300

A sympathetic wind and I suspect, a tap on the gas, we landed at 9.02 pm, declarations, filled and signed, passports checked and an unnervingly long wait for the bags to roll down the turnstile and I was there, I had slid under the door as it slammed shut in…

Nat Curnow

Sat, 28 Mar 2020 17:38:07 +1300

Covert Covid.

From what ever perspective you view the world, this is undoubtably an unusual and unpredictable coarse of events, and my story within this is no different.
Like with all adventures, it was proceeded by routine planning and a degree of expectation, and in my case, tethered excitement as…

Ian Dalziel

Sat, 28 Mar 2020 10:49:02 +1300

The Tall Dwarfs 'Nothing's going to happen' may be a bridge too far, but this hiatus gives us time to revisit the classics – 'Canopener' seems apposite :- )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ppgl9sJUys

Geoff Lealand

Sat, 28 Mar 2020 10:46:47 +1300

Many thanks, Ian. For some reason, my photos refuse to lodge here.

Geoff Lealand

Sat, 28 Mar 2020 10:44:27 +1300

Having problems posting photo

Ian Dalziel

Sat, 28 Mar 2020 10:43:00 +1300

New Zealand Memories (143, April/May 2020)
Nice, I see a couple of those photographs on the truncated pdf at Issuu
https://issuu.com/ampmmarketingltd/docs/ebook_pdf_for_issue_143

Geoff Lealand

Sat, 28 Mar 2020 10:33:32 +1300

For a bit of ‘Saturday Excitement’. I have a piece in the latest New Zealand Memories (143, April/May 2020), celebrating the 1950/60s street photography of Les Cleveland. In supermarket magazine sections from Monday, if you are able to get out.

Moz

Sat, 28 Mar 2020 10:23:55 +1300

internet in Australia

Don't you go bagging out my pigeons, man. They're doing the best they can in the circumstances. And anyway, we have fibre to the neighbourhood so it's much faster now than when they had to go all the way into the city every time.

More seriously, we're…

Ross Mason

Sat, 28 Mar 2020 10:04:51 +1300

Phew. Russell is still kicking.
“Always look on the bright side of life” began the first days broadcast over my hijacked PA system attached to the side of our house. Intend to broadcast appropriate song each night at 7 pm.
Unbelievably, last night the power went off at 6-45. Delay…

Trevor Nicholls

Sat, 28 Mar 2020 00:00:29 +1300

I think this might be a good time to commend a previous government for pushing fibre to the home. Large scale WFH in NZ is a much more viable proposition today than it is in Australia.

Ian Williamson

Fri, 27 Mar 2020 20:39:16 +1300

Russel I see your Links still has The Dim Post , Would it be great if that was reanimated. Even to read some of those old posted.

Is the, Monty Python Bring out your dead, sketch a bit too much right now?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU0d8kpybVg

Neil

Fri, 27 Mar 2020 19:56:47 +1300

I think there’s also the prospect of restricted access to drugs (including the legal ones) driving drug-seeking behaviour that increases transmission risks. We want to keep people stable, not throw them into withdrawal.

That would be true of opiates but not of P. There is no stable use of P…

Katita

Fri, 27 Mar 2020 18:08:21 +1300

Oh how I've missed you guys. I went for a walk today. I live on a massively busy T3 route. It's mostly empty apart from the odd goods truck. But we can hear tui and kereru flapping about now. I stopped at the dairy and bought an ice cream to…

Moz

Fri, 27 Mar 2020 18:07:23 +1300

They’re not allowed to come back in once they leave. So they have to be really, really certain that they have somewhere to go before they leave the marina. They could probably enter Aotearoa, since we’re not quite as sticky about being legally married as France is, but Aotearoa is…

BenWilson

Fri, 27 Mar 2020 17:26:44 +1300

Presumably if the weather is not too bad they can just sail around to save marina fees?

Moz

Fri, 27 Mar 2020 17:07:18 +1300

The beak mask thing works quite well as a DIY filter mask as well, lets you have thicker filters with more area to increase effectiveness. Filling the void with sweet-smelling herbs is optional. And the look definitely encourages social distancing :)

I also love that it is exactly 12 hours…

Moz

Fri, 27 Mar 2020 17:04:58 +1300

For my simple brutal stuff inkscape is awesome. But not everyone likes their graphic design done by an engineer. For images paint.net works surprisingly well, at least at the bumblefunkery level I live at..

Ian Dalziel

Fri, 27 Mar 2020 16:44:32 +1300

I felt that as well as ringing my bell I should be crying “unclean, unclean”
Here's a sartorial suggestion for contemporary outdoor-wear...
(even if the 'beak' is slightly redolent of a pangolin!)

For some months I've been dropping in on a wee corner of Venice – via this live webcam…

Ian Dalziel

Fri, 27 Mar 2020 16:18:07 +1300

We want to keep people stable, not throw them into withdrawal.
I assume methadone distribution (or modern equivalent) continues as well...

Kumara Republic

Fri, 27 Mar 2020 16:17:48 +1300

Hi dude, looks like you have that 3d rendering pretty sussed out now. What’s the software you’re using?

Mainly DAZ Studio 4.12, with occasional touch ups in Blender & GIMP.

Walter Nicholls

Fri, 27 Mar 2020 14:06:02 +1300

Methanol ... hasn’t been used in NZ meths for about 20 years Now that's useful information I'd forgotten – not that we have a lot of meths (unlike turps!) but at least supermarkets sell it. Although at home, soap is pretty good, given we're not going out anywhere. (I'm working…

Gabor Toth

Fri, 27 Mar 2020 13:58:09 +1300

Meth prices have skyrocketed.

What about meths? There may still be some for sale in certain supermarkets and grocery stores (of course all the hardware shops are closed).
Take 7 parts of methylated spirits, add 3 parts clean water and (ta dah!) you now have a 70% ethanol solution which…

Moz

Fri, 27 Mar 2020 13:00:13 +1300

I was struggling a bit with the shared path. Fewer pedestrians but it's hard to leave a decent distance when there's more than one of them.

I felt that as well as ringing my bell I should be crying "unclean, unclean"

Russell Brown

Fri, 27 Mar 2020 12:55:25 +1300

Went out for a walk today, more people walking in the neighbourhood than usual, people carefully keeping distance, walking into the street – but absolutely everyone said “hi!” and smiled

It's the same in our neighbourhood. And the really cool part of the daily bike-ride is that it's not only…

Moz

Fri, 27 Mar 2020 12:54:15 +1300

I live on my boat

I have a few friends and follow some youtubers on boats, and you lot who are already in place are in many ways lucky. The poor sods who were mid-ocean are finding it tricky to get into port if they’re not arriving in their country-of-citizenship.…

Russell Brown

Fri, 27 Mar 2020 12:53:18 +1300

Yes, some unexpected consequences. Less meth consumption will free up resources in EDs and acute mental health units. As people high on meth pose significant risk to health professionals that’s one safety issue that should reduce dramatically.

I think there's also the prospect of restricted access to drugs (including the…

Owen Foster

Fri, 27 Mar 2020 12:16:06 +1300

Hi Russell and other PAS people! First time caller here but Russell you’ve been a big influence on my life since a friend introduced me to your Friday emailer in the mid 90’s. I’ve always found your intelligent and nuanced views on a whole variety of topics really interesting.

I…

Robert Urquhart

Fri, 27 Mar 2020 11:57:36 +1300

I'm a web-dev, our whole company including reception/phones has been working from home since Monday (and preparing to work from home for the previous two weeks). I visited the office on Monday to pick up an extra monitor and am remoting to my office PC as needed for various things,…

Moz

Fri, 27 Mar 2020 11:32:18 +1300

I work for a company that manufactures burglar alarms, and we are seeing a slight increase in installs, but I expect our actual installers are going to start copping it if Australia follows Aotearoa down that path. Lots of burglaries normally means lots of alarm system responses and repairs.

Our…

Robert Urquhart

Fri, 27 Mar 2020 10:57:25 +1300

@Moz – A client in admin at a significant business association told me at the beginning of the week that their (mostly closed up of course) members had already seen a significant spike in break-ins and they were working hard to help increase security for their member's premises over the…

WaynePhillips

Fri, 27 Mar 2020 10:38:40 +1300

Walking around leafy suburbs of Christchurch earlier in the week pre lockdown there were loads of people obviously packing up and leaving for their bolthole (on the peninusula? castle hill?). Burglars on bikes

Neil

Fri, 27 Mar 2020 08:17:11 +1300

Kumara Republic

Thu, 26 Mar 2020 23:27:19 +1300

Welcome back, everyone. While we're all in lockdown, I have my Steam account to fall back on. And, of course, my 3D art hobby...

https://www.deviantart.com/deepred6502/art/Prepare-Not-Panic-833572227
https://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/prepare-not-panic/2927830/?p

https://www.deviantart.com/deepred6502/art/Coming-like-a-ghost-town-834964173
https://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/coming-like-a-ghost-town/2929811/?p

Trevor Nicholls

Thu, 26 Mar 2020 22:26:09 +1300

#saferCommunitiesApart

Moz

Thu, 26 Mar 2020 21:19:28 +1300

That made me laugh. Thankfully we have plastic money that’s designed to be laundered… the government was even more prepared than we knew!

Ian Dalziel

Thu, 26 Mar 2020 20:26:52 +1300

What are they supposed to do?
At the intersection of the cash economy and neutralising surface borne pathogens, there must literally be a place for Money Laundering...

Moz

Thu, 26 Mar 2020 19:39:44 +1300

Neil, I was thinking of all the burglars who are now faced with most houses being occupied all the time. And they can't exactly drive round looking for targets if the streets are empty. What are they supposed to do?

A quick snap of rush hour in Wiley Park, Sydney.…

Paul Campbell

Thu, 26 Mar 2020 19:05:25 +1300

Went out for a walk today, more people walking in the neighbourhood than usual, people carefully keeping distance, walking into the street – but absolutely everyone said "hi!" and smiled

Neil

Thu, 26 Mar 2020 18:54:49 +1300

Meth prices have skyrocketed.

Moz

Thu, 26 Mar 2020 17:15:00 +1300

Not easy coming up with unique name

There are quite a few band name generators online... "Chicks Dig Tomatoes" works...

Glenn Pearce

Thu, 26 Mar 2020 16:05:30 +1300

Yes, I think that was the impetus behind the change. Not easy coming up with unique name without resorting to the names of obscure medical procedures

Ian Dalziel

Thu, 26 Mar 2020 15:56:47 +1300

They had to change the band name to The Dawns since that video
Understandable, Swiss lawyers aside, you wouldn't want to cross pollinate with Atomic Flower's fanbase!

Glenn Pearce

Thu, 26 Mar 2020 15:05:52 +1300

I’ve posted this elsewhere but I know there’s a few muso’s follow PA might appreciate it

My daughter and her band The Dawns were so excited to release their first single “Oblivious” last week but it’s been obviously overshadowed by COVID events.
They also had a couple of gigs lined…

Robert Harvey

Thu, 26 Mar 2020 14:51:44 +1300

Gosh it's great that this blog has been revived, thanks Russell. And in line with Ian's reference to 'Music Helps', and also the theme of being kind, I submit a tune that boomers may remember, from 1954.
"Be Kind To Your Web-Footed Friends", aka "Crazy Mixed Up Song".

Moz

Thu, 26 Mar 2020 12:09:43 +1300

let the baby chickens out into the tomato bed yesterday. Since then I've got a cheap IP camera so now a bunch of friends and family are watching the wee cheepers in real time. Sadly you mob will have to live with delayed digging.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDlKdewTihU

Ian Dalziel

Thu, 26 Mar 2020 10:58:50 +1300

Reminds me of this ‘cheery’ movie ending…
If ya wanna see how it might all end up in Australia
On the Beach 1959
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNju8IjExn4
Ya gotta watch those ‘psychos’ and their social distancing lapses!

Plus the cheesiest ’Waltzing Matilda’ version ever!

Not helping?
try this – The last ever __Goon…

Russell Brown

Thu, 26 Mar 2020 10:28:12 +1300

Thursday morning rush hour on the northwestern motorway.

Geoff Lealand

Thu, 26 Mar 2020 09:03:07 +1300

Oops..apologies if you have to crane your neck. I thought I chose the right photo size.

Geoff Lealand

Thu, 26 Mar 2020 09:01:43 +1300

Holding my baby. This morning’s job is to finish raising the fencing around the run for our three newly-acquired Light Sussex chickens. They escaped on their first night and caused much alarm.

Geoff Lealand

Thu, 26 Mar 2020 08:47:38 +1300

Kia ora, Good to be back, for I had drifted away, to less interesting places, over the past year or two. I have sort of inundated my social media with my proudest horticultural achievement but if I could be permitted one more posting: a large bunch of bananas (Cavendish Dwarf…

Russell Brown

Thu, 26 Mar 2020 08:15:34 +1300

From yesterday afternoon: the suitably-distanced queue for last orders at Westmere Butchery.

John Armstrong

Wed, 25 Mar 2020 23:21:23 +1300

Neutrons!

John Armstrong

Wed, 25 Mar 2020 23:20:57 +1300

Well, fancy seeing you here! Interesting that at least some of my remaining neutrons still steer me to PA in times of need... Splendid timing.

Key preparation in our household has been two days of building a bike track around our house, including a "berm" and a "gap" (we would…

Lucy Telfar Barnard

Wed, 25 Mar 2020 22:25:17 +1300

Late to the party I see, oh well.
I'm spending my lockdown (thank goodness for autocorrect, does anyone else keep accidentally typing lickdown?!) feeling tired and behind and wondering why exactly I put up my hand to work my uncommitted hours (and the rest of them) on the response, when…

JLM

Wed, 25 Mar 2020 21:54:56 +1300

Hmmm – beach walks, small forest – wonder if it's the same as my local. Blackberries perchance? We could wave at a safe distance. Our local tai chi matriarch is threatening to lead respectfully distanced sessions on the beach but I don't think that will pass the regulations somehow.

Trevor Nicholls

Wed, 25 Mar 2020 21:49:58 +1300

We have a reasonable garden already which is still giving us enough vegetables for each day's dinner, but at this time of year I am usually sowing mustard or lupin to put in the compost bin when I empty it at the end of winter. Which is still what I…

Hilary Stace

Wed, 25 Mar 2020 20:39:58 +1300

We got a little Vegepod earlier this year after being impressed with the neighbours' large one which we were watering while they were away. It was delivered as a dreaded flat pack but with instructions in NZ English, and after filling it with some bags of stuff and seedlings, it…

lprent

Wed, 25 Mar 2020 18:50:15 +1300

Good to see PA winding a bit more up again. I just finished yesterday running around having a look at why the TS RSS/Atom feeds were breaking (updated libcurl issue). So while I was at it and because I was blocked on a unittest, I did a health check through…

Rob Stowell

Wed, 25 Mar 2020 18:23:19 +1300

I'd have to say that despite the darkness covid is bringing to the world, there's a shared sentiment that when this is over, we can rebuild the world as a better place. This is a giant reset. We all know that we're living through one of history's bigger bits.

Lovely…

BenWilson

Wed, 25 Mar 2020 16:41:26 +1300

You can get little ones online. Good enough to get seedlings established, then plant out in the garden. Mine is actually a carport, which I decided to put clear roofing on because who the hell wastes building space on a car? I'm running out of shelf space though.

Trevor Nicholls

Wed, 25 Mar 2020 16:34:32 +1300

Damn, I wish we had set up a greenhouse at the end of last year. It was on the list of nice-to-do's but we were just finishing remodelling the house to accommodate my wife's 90yo mother and funding was a bit tight. Now of course it looks like an essential…

BenWilson

Wed, 25 Mar 2020 16:13:56 +1300

One major beneficiary of the lockdown: my greenhouse project. Chili, jade plants, holy basil, thyme, Kowhai, Kauri and Radiata all popping up. Dwarf beans on their way.

Carol Stewart

Wed, 25 Mar 2020 15:39:58 +1300

Thanks so much for reactivating, Russell. I love the contributions of people here. I'll be plying the roads around Brooklyn, Wellington, on my e-bike, and I must say I'm looking forward to there being less traffic.

Moz

Wed, 25 Mar 2020 14:36:07 +1300

I watched Tiki Taane’s livestream on Saturday, that was also awesome (“Free entry, no dress code, all ages, byo”). But oddly a lot of the discussion ended up being about his dog. Exemplified by his ad, where he had to dub in a bark because the dog just looked at…

Ian Dalziel

Wed, 25 Mar 2020 14:12:02 +1300

also for those in the music industry and ancillary enterprises the excellent MusicHelps org has collected relevant COVID-19 Information and Support for Kiwi Music People:
https://musichelps.org.nz/2020/03/covid-19-information-and-support-for-kiwi-music-people/
including their Wellbeing Service
https://musichelps.org.nz/backline/wellbeing/

Ian Dalziel

Wed, 25 Mar 2020 14:10:16 +1300

Ease into the new paradigm tonight (weds 25) with an NZ Music 'insta concert'
https://www.instagram.com/p/B-EMrfUgeeH/
I think Francisca Griffin is on at 8.45!!

william blake

Wed, 25 Mar 2020 14:09:38 +1300

Ak.Council are padlocking beaches to 'stop campers' and 'congregations', seems harsh and unkind, especially out West with the bush rahui in place. Also a wee bit discriminatory against the less able and people who have to live in campers, vans or their car. Of course we (youngish, fittish) can still…

Alec Morgan

Wed, 25 Mar 2020 14:07:18 +1300

Great header…“Together Alone”…the Karekare Finn sound from the 90s played in my ears the second I scanned it.

Good thinking Russell to put the foot down again–a little at least–with PA Hard News. An existential crisis second only to Climate Change seems a fitting occasion!

Moz

Wed, 25 Mar 2020 11:59:54 +1300

Oooh, but importantly: I have baby chickens to supervise. So there has been a great deal of sharing of videos of chicks doing what they do. Mostly flashing their cloacas at the camera... like a lot of people at the moment they spend their days sitting round the house eating, cheeping…

Russell Brown

Wed, 25 Mar 2020 11:55:38 +1300

Suggestion for Russell. Start another honeypot thread which is for discussion rather than community spirited kindness and sharing of experiences, and divert any debate to there.

Not a bad idea I guess. I'll do something this afternoon.

Moz

Wed, 25 Mar 2020 11:54:43 +1300

I’m attribute at least some responsibility for my long term career trajectory to this site

We is suitably proud of you :)

I’m doing fine in self-isolation, have a job that lets me work from home and a boss sufficiently vulnerable to the clue-bat that he’s willing to allow that.…

simon g

Wed, 25 Mar 2020 11:16:07 +1300

I wake up, I stay in bed without guilt. It's my patriotic duty to have a lie-in. Love me a lockdown.

Anyway, this was my morning laugh (from the UK):

The PM addresses the nation.

Alfie

Wed, 25 Mar 2020 10:58:52 +1300

These people keep reminding me that ‘be kind’ is deffo the Public Address word for 2020. I am in first on this one eh Russell.

Seconded. This phrase defines NZ's humane and intelligent approach to this emergency.

Paul Campbell

Wed, 25 Mar 2020 10:58:25 +1300

I normally work at home, have done so for most of the time since my son was born (he's 29). This is all very weird – all these people are going home, finding wonderful things there – I feel quite left out – wish I could take time off to…

Alfie

Wed, 25 Mar 2020 10:48:48 +1300

Hey... welcome back everyone. Not long ago PAS was one of my favourite NZ online communities and for those of us who refuse to use Facebook or practice read-only Twitter, a comfortable place to exchange thoughts with like-minded individuals. And generally no trolls.

Our family has been watching covid far…

John Farrell

Wed, 25 Mar 2020 10:43:57 +1300

Hi there, from deepest Dunedin. We just took our walk, to the chemist for prescriptions. It's surprising how many people were driving in South Dunedin – the traffic was almost normal.

BenWilson

Wed, 25 Mar 2020 10:43:03 +1300

Suggestion for Russell. Start another honeypot thread which is for discussion rather than community spirited kindness and sharing of experiences, and divert any debate to there.

Matthew Littlewood

Wed, 25 Mar 2020 10:42:00 +1300

Hope everyone is going well, I just wanted to say that I’m really enjoying Nadia Reid’s new album. It’s more expansive musically than anything she’s done previously, but it’s still very direct lyrically and vocally.

For an album about trying to find your own place in the world (both literal…

BenWilson

Wed, 25 Mar 2020 10:38:58 +1300

Ping from Kelston. Hat tip to Deborah for making me aware that I am in Kelston, NOT New Lynn. She is intimate with the boundaries and I am Sepuloni's problem :-)

Russell Brown

Wed, 25 Mar 2020 10:06:00 +1300

Great to be back, Russell. I’m attribute at least some responsibility for my long term career trajectory to this site. :-)

Hey, Deborah! Great to have you back! So what you doin' these days?

;-)

Deborah

Wed, 25 Mar 2020 09:30:10 +1300

Great to be back, Russell. I'm attribute at least some responsibility for my long term career trajectory to this site. :-)

Jean Hughes

Wed, 25 Mar 2020 09:29:24 +1300

Yay – back in here. Well today is the last day of driving the big airport bus for at least 4 weeks. Sad in a way but also great to get a break from all those shellshocked, over anxious people who are trying, trying, trying desperately to get home to…

Russell Brown

Wed, 25 Mar 2020 09:20:46 +1300

And, look at me, back on the blog comments, after more than a decade away.

Blogs! They're the next big thing!

Matt Nippert

Wed, 25 Mar 2020 09:13:40 +1300

And, look at me, back on the blog comments, after more than a decade away.

Russell Brown

Wed, 25 Mar 2020 09:05:29 +1300

Damn. [[Oh no, no, no. I can't claim to be an expert on Manu's extraordinary career, but I've gained, and shared, so much joy from 'Soul Makossa'. He started the dance with that one record. [[Oh no, no, no. I can't claim to be an expert on Manu's extraordinary career,…

Hilary Stace

Wed, 25 Mar 2020 08:59:15 +1300

Great idea to reactivate this (usually caring but always interesting) online community. Thanks, Russell.

Public Address

Wed, 25 Mar 2020 08:59:15 +1300

Discussion from blog post.