Public Address | Cafe | Southerly: Happy to Help (If I Can) https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/ en-us Copyright (c) 2026 Public Address David Haywood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-happy-to-help-if-i-can/?p=363868#post363868 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-happy-to-help-if-i-can/?p=363868#post363868 A couple of quick replies as my wild animals are keeping me very busy this morning:

Downbeatdan and Lilith – thank you very much for your kind comments. I’m so delighted if this has managed to bring cheer into a gloomy week.

Deborah wrote:
I’m going to have to spend…

]]> Tue, 19 Jul 2016 09:00:35 +1200 Paul Campbell https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-happy-to-help-if-i-can/?p=363866#post363866 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-happy-to-help-if-i-can/?p=363866#post363866 Tue, 19 Jul 2016 07:13:38 +1200 Lilith __ https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-happy-to-help-if-i-can/?p=363864#post363864 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-happy-to-help-if-i-can/?p=363864#post363864 Mon, 18 Jul 2016 22:54:29 +1200 Deborah https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-happy-to-help-if-i-can/?p=363862#post363862 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-happy-to-help-if-i-can/?p=363862#post363862 Mon, 18 Jul 2016 22:34:21 +1200 Downbeatdan https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-happy-to-help-if-i-can/?p=363861#post363861 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-happy-to-help-if-i-can/?p=363861#post363861 Mon, 18 Jul 2016 22:19:34 +1200 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-happy-to-help-if-i-can/?p=363855#post363855 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-happy-to-help-if-i-can/?p=363855#post363855 Mon, 18 Jul 2016 20:26:53 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-happy-to-help-if-i-can/?p=363854#post363854 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-happy-to-help-if-i-can/?p=363854#post363854 you mean it has gone down since ?

In many cases, yes. It's a fucking bloodbath out there.

]]> Mon, 18 Jul 2016 19:58:28 +1200 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-happy-to-help-if-i-can/?p=363851#post363851 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-happy-to-help-if-i-can/?p=363851#post363851 the 2003 word-rate

you mean it has gone down since ?

]]> Mon, 18 Jul 2016 19:45:18 +1200 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-happy-to-help-if-i-can/?p=363850#post363850 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-happy-to-help-if-i-can/?p=363850#post363850 roads scholar

boom!

]]> Mon, 18 Jul 2016 19:43:31 +1200 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-happy-to-help-if-i-can/?p=363849#post363849 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-happy-to-help-if-i-can/?p=363849#post363849 the boy next door to us was literally stoned to death because he was disabled

practical eugenics
#blesstheprovinces

]]> Mon, 18 Jul 2016 19:42:05 +1200 Paul Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-happy-to-help-if-i-can/?p=363844#post363844 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-happy-to-help-if-i-can/?p=363844#post363844 I enjoyed that David.
I worked in a cotton gin in Wee Waa in 69. I cant remember if they had matches in the toilet. It was a very stratafied society. Living in the gin camp, we didnt even get to see the farmers and families let alone meet them.…

]]> Mon, 18 Jul 2016 17:41:06 +1200 David Hood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-happy-to-help-if-i-can/?p=363831#post363831 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-happy-to-help-if-i-can/?p=363831#post363831 until recently I’d no idea of the history of the unification of Timaru... the issues with street alignment in the two halves

So you're a roads scholar?

]]> Mon, 18 Jul 2016 16:03:48 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-happy-to-help-if-i-can/?p=363826#post363826 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-happy-to-help-if-i-can/?p=363826#post363826 Oh, I’d kill to be in the same league as Ronald Hugh Morrieson. On the 30th anniversary of his death I cycled from Christchurch to Hawera (had to start before the actual anniversary, of course) and commemorated his genius by having a pint in every pub in town.

"We're taking…

]]> Mon, 18 Jul 2016 15:24:09 +1200 Russell Brown https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-happy-to-help-if-i-can/?p=363825#post363825 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-happy-to-help-if-i-can/?p=363825#post363825 Um. Anyway. Best not bum anybody out.

It was kinda dark, but I think we can all move on.

]]> Mon, 18 Jul 2016 15:21:05 +1200 Emma Hart https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-happy-to-help-if-i-can/?p=363821#post363821 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-happy-to-help-if-i-can/?p=363821#post363821 There seems to be a vogue for ‘Timaru noir’ these days what with the release of Amanda Newall’s new film The Hoover Diaries

Thanks, Ian, I hadn't heard of that, and now I MUST see it. I went to school with Steven Hartley. This was a few years where people…

]]> Mon, 18 Jul 2016 14:57:23 +1200 David Haywood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-happy-to-help-if-i-can/?p=363817#post363817 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-happy-to-help-if-i-can/?p=363817#post363817 Ian Dalziel wrote:

I’m thinking that South Canterbury is the South Island’s Taranaki, Timaru its Inglewood or Hawera, perhaps Dr Haywood could be its Ronald Hugh Morrieson?

Oh, I’d kill to be in the same league as Ronald Hugh Morrieson. On the 30th anniversary of his death I cycled from…

]]> Mon, 18 Jul 2016 14:19:40 +1200 Sam M https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-happy-to-help-if-i-can/?p=363814#post363814 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-happy-to-help-if-i-can/?p=363814#post363814 Mon, 18 Jul 2016 14:03:44 +1200 David Haywood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-happy-to-help-if-i-can/?p=363810#post363810 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-happy-to-help-if-i-can/?p=363810#post363810 LeighKennaway wrote:

….. just in case anyone was wondering why the Haywood children are trained to do great things with powertools rather than engage in interprative dance or any other stagecraft…..

My children on stage doesn't bear thinking about. You'd certainly need one of those shepherd's crook things (possibly electrified).…

]]> Mon, 18 Jul 2016 13:40:39 +1200 Ian Dalziel https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-happy-to-help-if-i-can/?p=363809#post363809 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-happy-to-help-if-i-can/?p=363809#post363809 Dance all around the world – he blurted...
it was the phrase "the Spirit of Street Alignment" where I actually started crying with laughter.
I managed to hold out until :
Rupert was dressed and ready in the wings as **the children representing the Unified Timaru Drainage Board danced off…

]]> Mon, 18 Jul 2016 13:37:00 +1200 bob daktari https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-happy-to-help-if-i-can/?p=363807#post363807 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-happy-to-help-if-i-can/?p=363807#post363807 No one mentioned the history of the unification of Timaru when I lived there... I guess some things are just too painful to teach

I've not danced since I left the place

fantastic story thank you David

]]> Mon, 18 Jul 2016 12:51:51 +1200 David Haywood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-happy-to-help-if-i-can/?p=363806#post363806 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-happy-to-help-if-i-can/?p=363806#post363806 Emma Hart wrote:

What it lead me to contemplate is a musical version of the sinking of the Ben Venue, about which, as it turns out, Thomas Bracken wrote a poem.

I’m sure that one of Kylinda’s half-dozen earlier productions must surely have been on this subject. I suspect that…

]]> Mon, 18 Jul 2016 12:44:29 +1200 LeighKennaway https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-happy-to-help-if-i-can/?p=363805#post363805 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-happy-to-help-if-i-can/?p=363805#post363805 Mon, 18 Jul 2016 12:41:23 +1200 Sacha https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-happy-to-help-if-i-can/?p=363802#post363802 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-happy-to-help-if-i-can/?p=363802#post363802 Mon, 18 Jul 2016 12:19:08 +1200 Emma Hart https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-happy-to-help-if-i-can/?p=363801#post363801 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-happy-to-help-if-i-can/?p=363801#post363801 The first thought that occurred to me on my enlightenment was that modern dance would be the ideal medium to make the story more widely known – particularly the all-important role of the drainage boards, and, of course, the issues with street alignment in the two halves.

What it lead…

]]> Mon, 18 Jul 2016 12:09:59 +1200 David Haywood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-happy-to-help-if-i-can/?p=363800#post363800 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-happy-to-help-if-i-can/?p=363800#post363800 Did he ever confess to people smuggling?

Ah, that sounds more like a long series of stories that I told to my children "Emily of the High Seas". She once had a duel with the ship's accountant on a pirate vessel and ended up dramatically throwing her sword through his…

]]> Mon, 18 Jul 2016 12:07:16 +1200 David Haywood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-happy-to-help-if-i-can/?p=363796#post363796 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-happy-to-help-if-i-can/?p=363796#post363796 This story was written quite some time ago. Upon re-reading, the weird thing (to me) is how much of it is taken from real life.

For example, in 1989 I met an Australian from Wee Waa who genuinely claimed that all Australians keep matches in their lavatories, and that it…

]]> Mon, 18 Jul 2016 11:26:10 +1200 David Haywood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-happy-to-help-if-i-can/?p=363793#post363793 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-happy-to-help-if-i-can/?p=363793#post363793 Bless you, Emma!

I’m ashamed to admit that until recently I’d no idea of the history of the unification of Timaru. The first thought that occurred to me on my enlightenment was that modern dance would be the ideal medium to make the story more widely known – particularly the…

]]> Mon, 18 Jul 2016 11:08:53 +1200 Emma Hart https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-happy-to-help-if-i-can/?p=363792#post363792 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-happy-to-help-if-i-can/?p=363792#post363792 Mon, 18 Jul 2016 10:45:36 +1200 David Haywood https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-happy-to-help-if-i-can/?p=363786#post363786 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-happy-to-help-if-i-can/?p=363786#post363786 Just in case anyone is worried: another short story in the same series reveals that no-one was hurt in Kylinda and Timothy’s house fire (not even emotionally, it would seem)...

“They were only things,” said Kylinda. “But we did lose pretty much all of them. I was left with my…

]]> Mon, 18 Jul 2016 07:59:11 +1200 Public Address https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-happy-to-help-if-i-can/?p=363785#post363785 https://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-happy-to-help-if-i-can/?p=363785#post363785 Discussion from blog post.

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