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Christopher Dempsey

Sat, 09 Feb 2013 09:28:05 +1300

Volunteered at Takaparawhau (Bastion Pt) for the ZERO-waste initiative organised by Ngtai Whatua o Orakei. Had a great time, helping people figure out what resources they wanted to put into which bin (recyclable resource, organic resource, and landfill resource).

The sun was hot the wind cold (but it died out…

andin

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 20:57:27 +1300

Nice video Dyan.
Waitangi day slept mainly, worked on the fucking car, got ready to move...again. Watched TV started with Seven Blunt just to stop myself from getting too uppity.
It fucking worked. dumb now.

Tim Michie

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 15:16:36 +1300

Thank you Dyan.

dyan campbell

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 15:09:10 +1300

Hebe, Danielle – any Beatles fans – you should check out the prediction by this Beatle at the beginning of this video –

http://youtu.be/u9FXdVnweok

ChrisW

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 14:59:27 +1300

952m Mountain
Te Aroha
Te whakapono
Me te rangimarie
Tatou tatou e

Cheers 81st, kia ora, and may the journey continue, yours and young 82nd's there, Ngati Rangitane and Ngati Pakeha, with more mountains to climb.

dyan campbell

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 14:53:38 +1300

NZ has signed up to the UN Declaration now – though it took a change of govt.

So they did Sacha, thanks for that!
http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/5846

Hebe

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 13:45:34 +1300

I'm going to the Auckland show on Saturday and I have basically ZERO expectations. I'm just going because, you know, it's Ringo. Religious pilgrimage type thing. Maybe it will be better than I think!They said he was excellent — and the band was tight as. Though G was appalled by…

dyan campbell

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 13:15:02 +1300

Shamefull indeed.
The really shameful aspect of this whole mess is the media's refusal to report the scale of the protests – although Rolling Stone has run this –
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/idle-no-more-native-led-protest-movement-takes-on-canadian-government-20130204/Native Movement

The extent to which fracking is going to harm water sources should be of concern to everyone. Canada's genodical…

Sam F

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 11:23:02 +1300

Got up respectably late, had yum char with the SO on the North Shore (and pretty busy it was too), helped Dad with the last stage of working on deck repairs – hopefully – and then went down to Pt Chev Beach which was not far off standing room only…

Kyle Matthews

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 10:10:05 +1300

I don’t understand why this sort of bullying from this family is tolerated, and I do find it alienating.

It is bizarre isn't it. Can't 'they' all get together and tell her to bugger off and let someone else take the spotlight?

Danielle

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 09:58:04 +1300

the teens blown away by their first big concert, their dad said it was great

I'm going to the Auckland show on Saturday and I have basically ZERO expectations. I'm just going because, you know, it's Ringo. Religious pilgrimage type thing. Maybe it will be better than I think!

Marcus Turner

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 09:24:07 +1300

practised

Hebe

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 09:12:03 +1300

Beckenham Cycles at the Cashmere end of Colombo St is good too.

Dastardly Bounder

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 08:50:28 +1300

Turns out Dubhead had something to do with it...

Stephen Judd

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 07:31:37 +1300

Cheers for the suggestions Dave. I'm in Christchurch now, where Cycle Traders and Around Again Cycles seem to have a good stock of parts and know-how. But it's good to have another source of rare bits up my sleeve!

81stcolumn

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 02:01:00 +1300

Waitangi day began with the sound of a motor mower. Anna, our very un-Swiss, Swiss host could be seen manically steering her way through what was probably the easiest part of her day. The motor camp where we were staying has a life of its own. Repeated visits have given…

DexterX

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 01:35:09 +1300

Shamefull indeed.

Sacha

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 00:09:46 +1300

Canada is one of only 4 nations that refuses to recognise the rights of Aboriginal people. New Zealand, Australia and the USA are the other 3

NZ has signed up to the UN Declaration now – though it took a change of govt.

Ken Sparks

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 00:02:50 +1300

I walked 40 kms around the Wellington hills (mostly on tracks but some streets also) with some friends who are training for the Oxfam 100 km walk in April. A rewarding day with the clouds progressively retreating. The tracks weren't particularly busy but Wilton Bush was a popular picnic destination.…

Craig Ranapia

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 23:50:25 +1300

Went to Mt Zion – the story was utterly predictable, the script structurally a bit messy largely redeemed by an utterly charming cast, and the first time in over twenty years I’ve heard an annoying person called a “doongy”.

Extra points: At 93 minutes it doesn’t outstay its…

Matthew Reid

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 23:32:19 +1300

I spent the day working (discussions about how to beat the HIV epidemic...), but did reflect on the fact that it was Waitangi Day just before falling asleep (Honey, it was Waitangi Day today, well you know, up until 12 hours ago | Oh, yeah, happy Waitangi Day | Cheers,…

dyan campbell

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 23:25:18 +1300

The nearest parallel is possibly Canada, where they’ve handled both aboriginal peoples and the French.

Canada? You're kidding, right?

Canada may have a way of disapproving of people using racist epithets who claim to be "just joking" – which is something I suppose, but it
is not a very good…

Hebe

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 23:01:28 +1300

Tonight my two teenagers and their dad went to Ringo Starr and co. They're just home, the teens blown away by their first big concert, their dad said it was great. here is Huia:

"Think of the loudest setting your stereo has. Double it. Tune everything up too full. Put…

DexterX

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 22:47:06 +1300

Housework, and organised child's play for daughter and her friends – consisted of the "kidz" racing each other in scooters around the common area and also playing Zombie tag – which I understand is a licence to scream louder.

I sat in the studio (basement tool store) playing guitar through…

Dave Waugh

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 22:33:42 +1300

Waitangi day for me was lovely, started the day cooking brunch for a bunch of mates at Rach's house, then a bit of sifting around town and a pint of the excellent Townsend Aotearoa pale ale at the Hop garden, where I as is the way in Welly I ran…

DexterX

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 22:28:52 +1300

you mean Maori and all citizens represented by the Crown (including Maori)?

How accurate – the reported truth is never accurate.

Danielle

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 22:27:41 +1300

We got a breakfast burrito at Mexicali Fresh on the Auckland waterfront, where an African-American man behind the counter was singing "Redemption Songs" to himself. (I characterised that scene as "a lot of shit going on there".) Then we went on a family walk to the Silo Park playground, where…

Dave Waugh

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 22:27:03 +1300

Nice old Herc Stephen, if you need any parts or advise for a beastie like that there are 3 people I'd recommend.

Oli Brooke White
www.oli.co.nz
Probably the best mechanic in the country

the new bike shop at the corner of Adelaide and Ridiford
Can't remember his name but he…

Isabel Hitchings

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 21:24:50 +1300

My parents are staying with us. We took them to the new C1 for lunch and then for a walk in the botanic gardens. Dinner was pasta with pesto made from basil I grew myself and then we left the children at home with my parents and and went off…

Ben Chapman

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 21:08:57 +1300

Believe it or not, I took the family down to Archives to see te Tiriti in all its rat chewed glory.

It was really very good.

They had a low-tech infographic outside where you could stick a sticker with the word that best describes your feelings on seeing the treaty.…

Alec Morgan

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 21:07:41 +1300

Yeah comes down to that in the end, the local newsletter I do one too, Karikari Panui, circ 300.

The washing! which all looks strangely familiar when mainly comprised of black T-shirts, heh. Played some Bob and King Tubby and Herbs “Whats be Happen” EP too.

Stephen Judd

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 20:46:20 +1300

we have a ladies version of the Hercules, with original chain guard and leather wheel skirt. How old would it be?

Mine, or yours? Either way, I don't really know enough about them. I think mine must be postwar though because the hub is a Sturmey Archer — before then,…

Eediot

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 18:25:15 +1300

"cubed potato and pear"- can I get that recipe plz?

Chris Waugh

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 18:08:24 +1300

Tangentially related, but I found this article in the Herald quite interesting, particularly:

"Our data show that Maori who prefer the term Pakeha to other descriptions, such as 'New Zealand European', 'Kiwi', or 'New Zealander', tend to view their own ethnicity as a more central to their self-concept," said Sibley, who…

Jean Hughes

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 18:04:53 +1300

yea Tim – we did too – well we didn't sleep – but danced away to Tahuna Breaks who were funky and great and wandered about and got up nice and close for Sola Rosa only to be pushed back by bass that also had a sort of disconnect to…

Ross Mason

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:50:02 +1300

Yup. Box of fluffy ducks.

Chris Waugh

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:48:47 +1300

I hope your Mum's ok.

Kumara Republic

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:48:43 +1300

I love that Waitangi day is fraught. It shows why NZ is different from Australia and USA etc. etc. We have our own, unique race issue that is still being played out 170+ years on from the signing. It has ebbed and flowed but has never gone away, and it’s…

Geoff Lealand

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:47:02 +1300

Yesterday; also listened to the excellent interview with Tony Simpson on the history of food. (Nat Radio)

Ross Mason

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:40:47 +1300

I was scheduled to be Number One Son with my Mum as she had to go for day surgery Tuesday. All OK, took her home in the avo and found I had to be quite persistent to keep her in the lazyboy. Anesthetic n'all like. She had to go the…

Steve Barnes

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:35:20 +1300

coming out of the lift this morning at work and for a fraction of a second I thought it was Monday…

Geoff Lealand

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:34:59 +1300

Stephen; we have a ladies version of the Hercules, with original chain guard and leather wheel skirt. How old would it be?

Chris Waugh

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:32:57 +1300

blogging on topics which would be illegal to discuss in many other countries.

That would be nice... It'd also be nice to read said blogging without needing to turn on a VPN. I'll be back as soon as Immigration gives my wife permission to come along.

Jan Farr

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:30:05 +1300

No sunshine here yesterday. We were going to go to the races at Tauherenikau, but too cold and I slept badly the night before, so pottered – doing sudoku and all the other puzzles I like in the Dompost. Did a bit of washing and ironing – honestly, even I…

Chris Waugh

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:29:58 +1300

I got up to see the Jundushan sillhouetted starkly against the rising sun. Absolutely perfectly clear air, so nice to breathe after that January we just had. Did some Chinese New Year supplies shopping in the county town. Won't name the store, because the company has a reputation for truly…

Ross Mason

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:29:18 +1300

We went to [(http://www.tiritirimatangi.org.nz/ | Tiritiri Matangi)] for the day.

And not a cat anywhere!!

Shaun Lott

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:26:10 +1300

Grey lines for me too :(
FF18.0.2, OSX 10.7.5

Stephen Judd

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:14:17 +1300

Thanks for the mention! I was moved to write that because I spent a good chunk of the day glued to Twitter getting crosser and crosser. I don’t know why. Just walk away Stephen, walk away.

I also managed to spend the afternoon (eventually) successfully fitting a new Sturmy Archer…

Jeremy Andrew

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 16:53:27 +1300

It's the biggest pool in the whole world. Covers most of the surface of the Earth!

They closed the ocean because of a poo?! ;-)

BenWilson

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 16:51:44 +1300

That’s an impressive pile of compost!

I picked an angle that made it look especially huge. It's actually on elevated ground relative to the cat, but it's still a big pile. Mostly weeds, spent vegetable roots, and quite a lot of tree trimmings. What amazes me most is that it…

Karen White

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 16:41:51 +1300

We were among the throngs walking the Sculpture Trail on Waiheke. Which was brilliant. After a cold beer in the Pavillion & a refreshing dip at Matiatia, home for fish & chips and the Entourage box set.

Will de Cleene

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 16:21:03 +1300

Took advantage of our singular pluralism by blogging on topics which would be illegal to discuss in many other countries.

Jeremy Andrew

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 16:18:42 +1300

That's an impressive pile of compost!

And also, you get tsunamis in your swimming pool? How big is it?!

Jackie Clark

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 16:10:53 +1300

I love Waitangi Day. I love that there's still unrest and protest because it keeps us honest. I love that it's also a holiday because you can never get too many of those. I spent the large part of yesterday with dogs and one of my favourite people. The rest…

Steve Barnes

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 16:05:36 +1300

Well, what did I do yesterday, hmmmm.
Got up around lunchtime, had a light lunch and dyed my hair purple as a protest against (insert current gripe here)
Well, it was Waitangi day.
;-)

BenWilson

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 15:55:32 +1300

Great to be able to support what is being done there and assuage some of the guilt of a 2 cat household :)

Found a great, big, juicy dismembered rat on my lawn yesterday. I presume it was an offering from the cat I've been courting. I don't want a…

Russell Brown

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 15:51:06 +1300

When we left it felt like we'd been at a free festival. Great day

Damn! I almost came down, but sitting on the deck reading won out.

Steve Markham

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 15:42:36 +1300

I chainsawed, watered the stock and ran for an hour and talked to my wife and chooks.

Julian Melville

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 15:09:14 +1300

I contemplated working (contractor etc) but decided not to. So it was off to the sculpture walk on Waiheke first thing. Good thing too as the harbour was sparkling and it got better and better as the day went on.

The bus from the ferry terminal to the start of…

Martin Barry

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 14:57:40 +1300

We went to [(http://www.tiritirimatangi.org.nz/ | Tiritiri Matangi)] for the day. Felt really connected to natural NZ,it seemed a very valid way of marking Waitangi Day. it's fantastic to see the progress made on the Island, the native birdlife, much of it very rare indeed is thriving. The reforestation is progressing…

Robby Hickman

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 14:07:53 +1300

Yes – I felt sick at that too. Thus the hat tip.

Sacha

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 14:06:26 +1300

Hinewhare Harawira had physically pushed Naida out of the way to give her mother centre stage, and quite roughly too.

Watched it on tv. Disgusted. Marae trustees and iwi runanga need to apply some justice.

Dastardly Bounder

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 14:06:10 +1300

After a lovelly garden party to celebrate a one year old's birthday, the family and I ended up at the beach in Pt Chev... Which was heaving. Some thoughtful chaps had even turned up with a wee sound system and were playing out some awesome old school dub. When we…

Russell Brown

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 14:04:47 +1300

Tweeted a hat tip to Naida Glavish who as a tolls operator in 1984 stared down her bosses at New Zealand Post Office over the use of 'kia ora' as a greeting.

Wonderful woman.

I was genuinely sad when it was reported that [[http://www.3news.co.nz/John-Key-vows-to-return-to-Waitangi/tabid/370/articleID/285706/Default.aspx|Hinewhare Harawira had physically pushed Naida out…

Marcus Turner

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 14:01:01 +1300

Pruned the pyracantha. Practiced the banjo.

Robby Hickman

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 13:51:02 +1300

Tweeted a hat tip to Naida Glavish who as a tolls operator in 1984 stared down her bosses at New Zealand Post Office over the use of 'kia ora' as a greeting. Thought some of the younger tweeps might find that story a useful insight into New Zealand as it…

Gabor Toth

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 13:48:42 +1300

Mid-week holidays always throw my perceptions of which day it is out the window. Tuesday night felt like Friday night, yesterday morning felt like it was Saturday and by the evening I thought it was Sunday. I was coming out of the lift this morning at work and for a…

Sara Bee

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 13:45:28 +1300

Classic NZ activities – going to the tip, incl. recycling store. Nice bacon-containing lunch at a cafe – no surcharge. Movie & visiting with family. Son went to Mount Zion and loved it.

Chip Matthews

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 13:44:09 +1300

I ended up doing my radio show, on a day which I would usually had off. Dunno why, but this year my co-host and I both thought it'd be good to do. And it was. The listenership were up for a great morning of music and sun. Great way to…

Sacha

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 13:43:25 +1300

the focus on only two groups

you mean Maori and all citizens represented by the Crown (including Maori)?

Brent Jackson

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 13:41:25 +1300

We cycled around the waterfront from Westhaven to Bastion Point, and went to the wonderfully laid back Waitangi Day Festival. Was hoping to get a tour of the meeting house there, but the tours were cancelled (the helpful guard didn't know why). We even got up and pogoed a bit…

BenWilson

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 13:27:37 +1300

I gardened for most of the day, and then stargazed until midnight. I had planned to go for a swim three times, but every occasion was stuffed up. On the first, the pool was closed because someone pooed in it. The second and third were blown by the tsunami warning.…

Bart Janssen

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 13:27:01 +1300

Played computer games in the morning, went to Kings to get a few herbs, which my beloved planted, watched cricket while kneading pasta dough, rode the stationary bike while reading Peter F Hamilton, ate dinner and watched Chuck.

Basically it was a Saturday.

Waitangi day strikes me as charming and…

Myles Thomas

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 13:27:01 +1300

It's interesting to get an idea of the sort of people who read and respond to your blogs. My Waitangi Day involved sleeping in after many nights recently working late, tidying the house, rabbit-proofing our gate (to keep the thing IN), going to a friend's wine-tasting quiz party in Mangere…

JLM

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 13:13:58 +1300

Listened to Simon Mercep trying to shut people up on Morning report.

Biked up road to help friend milk her two sheep.

Helped husband load up the seven white woolly pet sheep in our back garden and take them back to the aforementioned "up the road".

Used a handmade trolly…

Rich of Observationz

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 13:01:33 +1300

I went for a drive through the Wairarapa to look for more land to colonise.

Do many peoples anywhere do things to celebrate a national day – as opposed to just taking advantage of the day off? The UK doesn't have one at all, no Queen's Birthday or Remembrance Day.…

Mahal

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 13:00:37 +1300

Judging from the lawnmower chorus in my neighbourhood, the appropriate activity on Waitangi Day is gardening. I split my time between a book in the hammock, shifting rocks, laying weedmat, contemplated the lawnmower a couple of times but didn't actually fire it up, and retreated indoors to the Internet (and…

Geoff Lealand

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 12:56:56 +1300

As I currently on sabbatical a 'day off' is largely theoretical but the day consisted of:

Drove my daughter to the dinky Coalfields Museum in Huntly, where she is doing an internship and loving it--cataloguing baby bonnets, old wedding dresses, c19th hats etc. Then went for a bike ride around…

Tom Semmens

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 12:56:32 +1300

Worked in the garden in the morning listening to RNZ until mid-morning, where I thought Dame Anne Salmond provided a text book out-of-touch elite commentary for me to muse over during my hanging basket maintenance. Honestly, if her Pollyanna views on race relations are typical we are in for some…

Tim Welch

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 12:53:12 +1300

We ventured out to Henderson Park where I fell asleep in the sun listening to Tahuna Breaks in amongst a very amiable crowd. However when Sola Rosa came on someone on the mixing desk whacked up the bass to 11 and drowned out any vocals etc so we went home…

David Hood

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 12:42:23 +1300

I think tweet embedding is a highly javascript version dependent thing.

Sacha

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 12:42:19 +1300

Twittercards showing fine with FF here.

Alec Morgan

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 12:38:16 +1300

Listened to RNZ from 5 to 6.30am, walk on Tokerau beach with dog, watered plants. Talked to son at 10.30am who was having fresh fruit salad, B&E pie, lettuce parcels, & wine brunch in Kiwi Rd the Chev with cool cousins.

Played Joe Strummer and Mescaleros “Streetcore” reissue with 7 live tracks,…

Sacha

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 12:36:52 +1300

Enjoyed the silent city. Read a bit more Michael King. Did some work. Watched the Nga Tamatoa history on Maori TV including the early 70s Waitangi protests. Gritted teeth at TVNZ's smug bollockry about how all right-minded Kiwis were out 'celebrating' with bbqs on white beaches. Caught some Twitter. Some…

Russell Brown

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 12:36:33 +1300

I’m getting the same as Luke. Using Firefox.

Edit: Wow, that's weird. I see the link on reload, briefly, then it goes away to be replaced by the grey line.

What a pain in the bum.

Emma Hart

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 12:32:37 +1300

My partner went in to work, so he can take a day off later in the month when we have a weekend off in Hanmer for my birthday. It'd be good, he thought: a nice quiet day in an empty office.

Except that everyone else came in to work as…

Greg Wood

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 12:30:11 +1300

Well done, good post. Two things from me:

1. I'd be far happier with a well-worn vernacular Waitangi Day, complete with scars and painted-over bits, than I would with chucking it out and buying a shiny new New Zealand day from Noel Leemings.

2. And that segues into the marevellousness…

Luke Williamson

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 12:29:43 +1300

Me too for Firefox.

Luke Williamson

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 12:28:55 +1300

Thanks Russell. The other one was following this para:
"In Auckland yesterday, there were three big outdoor celebrations – the long-running festival at Barry Curtis Park in Manukau, a new one at Henderson Park and a paid show at Bastion Point. Sale St pub touted a Waitangi Day beer festival…

BenWilson

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 12:28:29 +1300

Just you, I think. They’re all working for me.

I’m getting the same as Luke. Using Firefox.

Edit: Wow, that's weird. I see the link on reload, briefly, then it goes away to be replaced by the grey line.

Luke Williamson

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 12:26:25 +1300

Just checked JKs speech and he was just being a knob as usual. Thought he might have said something interesting. It would be fascinating to see if there would have been any Waitangi Tribunal or grievance process if the "activists" had just shut up and gone away back in the…

Tim Michie

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 12:25:07 +1300

I like it quiet:

Listened to National Radio Morning Report coverage from Waitangi. Homekeeping, in the broadest sense. Relaxed and read coincidentally including some on cultural optimism. Found lost wallet: WIN. Went out drank, talked and watched friend win pool over someone she'd never been able to. Home, dinner and…

Russell Brown

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 12:22:51 +1300

Damn! OK. I just get grey line under "I preferred Tame Iti’s take:" and in one other spot.

Tame's one is an embedded tweet rather than a link. He says this:

History has woven us together. Waitangi Day is as much about communication as it is commemoration. We are the…

Luke Williamson

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 12:19:43 +1300

Damn! OK. I just get grey line under "I preferred Tame Iti’s take:" and in one other spot.

Russell Brown

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 12:17:37 +1300

Is it just me or are a couple of your links broken Russell?

Just you, I think. They're all working for me.

Shaun Lott

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 12:16:45 +1300

We walked the Waiheke sculpture trail. It seemed like half of Auckland were going to Waiheke, judging by the people density in the ferry terminal at either end, and the fact that Fullers seemed to give up on a timetable and ran the boats in a continuous shuttle. It was…

Luke Williamson

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 12:15:24 +1300

Is it just me or are a couple of your links broken Russell?
I love that Waitangi day is fraught. It shows why NZ is different from Australia and USA etc. etc. We have our own, unique race issue that is still being played out 170+ years on from the…

Public Address

Thu, 07 Feb 2013 12:15:24 +1300

Discussion from blog post.