Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: A few (more) words on The Hobbit, in reply to BenWilson,
Yes, there was shagging (more about that when we next meet face to face)
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I minored in Phliosophy. Even fewer answers, despite the side helping of Existentialism from a guest lecturer
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Hard News: A few (more) words on The Hobbit, in reply to Jacqui Dunn,
It's a feeling of being everything, as in enormous, and yet really tiny - as in one-celled.
"At one"?
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Hard News: Floating the idea, in reply to Russell Brown,
found this absolutely amazing picture of the beach in the 20s.
Popular spot - and some of Ben's uninterrupted mangroves in the distance
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The five-headed hydra, as John Key once termed the prospect, would have been disconcerting to many.
I believe someone at the time responded to that scary talking point by noting that National, Act, United and the Maori Party would constitute a four-headed 'hydra'. Any horror about that is largely a product of continued FPP thinking by the public, journalists and political insiders.
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Hard News: Floating the idea, in reply to Alastair Jamieson,
There seem to be a growing number of locations with residents demanding the construction of sandy beaches where none ever existed.
Damned Parisians :)
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Hard News: Floating the idea, in reply to BenWilson,
building a pool in conjunction with the council.
Avondale along with Otahuhu were the suburbs most notably shafted by previous Auckland City Councils refusing to fund public pools with solid business cases while readily sanding aforementioned beaches.
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Hard News: Floating the idea, in reply to Andrew Dubber,
They simply did the maths on the cost of ongoing healthcare in the community, and weighed that up against the overall advantages of having a less sedentary populace - and then took the plunge, as it were.
And that's what has been missing here - any agency taking responsiblity for the overall costs and benefits.
I can imagine a fruitful long-term partnership between the Auckland Council, the region's District Health Boards, relevant national organisations like MSD and SPARC, and specialist swimming, recreation and public health NGOs and businesses.
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Hard News: Floating the idea, in reply to Lilith __,
Transport is a big, big problem for many families if there isn't a suitable local pool.
From the headline "Give the kids a bus to our big free pool", I assumed the Herald editorial was going to suggest investing in removing those transport barriers, but then it didn't really.
In my experience back when most children walked to their local school, the pool became a social hub during summer with simple key rental schemes to manage access and reliance on the oversight of older kids or parent. I understand tighter health and safety regulations have fuelled the closures.
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Hard News: Floating the idea, in reply to Sam F,
is the inner harbour generally cleaner than in years past (with sewer separation work et cetera)?
The awesome Project Twin Streams probably had some impact on the upper reaches too.