Posts by Emma Hart
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Unpacking almost finished. I've taken about four carloads of flattened cardboard to be recycled.
I'm starting to wonder if we couldn't just have built a house out of cardboard boxes.
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B, there were probably a dozen or more 'PAS fellas' watching this unfold thinking D, RB, or EH would jump in, but they haven't. So, without wanting to drag things out, this is what we do I suppose. Some might call it gutless, but I'd call it a diffusion.
I'm here when I'm not packing boxes. We take possession tomorrow, have I mentioned that?
I totally appreciate B's efforts on the 'calling bullshit' side of things, haven't seen any comments I feel need removing, and heartily recommend the 'now ignoring obvious rubbish in favour of the beauty of Brendan McCullum batting' approach.
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Yep, we just need to get approval for its lipstick colour from Rodney Hide.
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Okay, fine. We get the horse a press pass, put a brown jacket on it, and tell everyone it's Andrew Mulligan.
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You do realise what The People are going to say now, don't you?
We are never going to manage to smuggle a racehorse into the Basin.
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Please, please wear fascinators. That would be so rad!
Pff, the last time I wore something that small and lacy on my head I was dressed as a French Maid. Imagine a doily on a racehorse.
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You don't think telling someone to shut up while jingle jangling will look just a little silly?
The bells are to ensure he sits with the appropriate level of stillness.
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I remember reading in some dusty policy paper that the marginal rate for some beneficiaries approaches 100%
In the early nineties, it passed 100%. There was a thresh-hold you hit, and my memory is a bit dodgy on it now but I think it was at around 15 minimum wage hours a week, where the claw-backs were more than you were making per hour. My partner had to sit down with our WINZ guy and show him this happened on a piece of paper. The poor guy was appalled, but previously unaware.
Since then, the thresh-hold of earning for abatement has risen and WFF has come in, so I think it's gone, but certainly for a while, if you worked too much you lost money.
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Make sure you post the details of where at the Basin we will meet, for those of us who don't know what you look like.
We may even post photos.
We should have a sign.
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You realise he talks a lot at the cricket? Just so you know.
As long as he doesn't go, "I'm bored. When does this end? I can't get a net connection. I'm hungry. I want something to drink. Can we leave yet?" it'll be better than going to the cricket with my daughter.