Posts by Russell Brown
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Feed: Saints Preserve, in reply to BenWilson,
Of course you could end up getting what I got – a grapefruit that comes back from the dead but never bears fruit again.
Sigh. Our neighbours had an old lemon tree with gnarly big, juicy fruit -- much better than shop lemons. They tried to replant it recently when they terraced their back yard, but the result was very sad indeed.
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Feed: Saints Preserve, in reply to Jolisa,
Can I come round and harvest some? There’s a reason feijoa rhymes with “freeloader”, after all :-)
Yes!
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Hard News: Gower Speaks, in reply to Alastair Thompson,
That would have to be one of the longest and most cogent expositions on the subject of politics that Paddy has ever had the privilege of being associated with.
Bravo!
Yes. My past experience with criticism of TV news journalists and editors is that they are the most precious little petals, but pretty much the first thing Patrick said was that they were good questions and he was happy to answer them.
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Hard News: Gower Speaks, in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
“Our poll shows National is (highly) likely to have 56 to 58 MPs.”
Not hard.
Fair enough. And they could say "given the margin of error, at 4.9% in our poll, New Zealand First effectively has a 50-50 chance of getting back into Parliament".
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Hard News: Gower Speaks, in reply to Bart Janssen,
Honestly is there any reason why they couldn’t report actual intervals instead of just simplistic percentages.
I have some sympathy here. Explaining confidence intervals in a three-minute news item is not something I'd like to try and do.
But yes, as you and Pete both note, treating the simple number as gospel is actually misleading.
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Feed: Saints Preserve, in reply to Hilary Stace,
Probably goat's cheese -- it offsets the flavour of the fig beautifully.
If you have the $$, this is great thing to do:
Slice figs in half and press a piece of goat's cheese into the cavity of each half.
Wrap each half with a strip of prosciutto or pancetta.
Cook them on the hot plate of your barbecue. Eat warm. Gorgeous.
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Feed: Saints Preserve, in reply to Lilith __,
The pop-tops will pop down again over your own preserves, voilà!
I've been wondering about how that works with olives, which you don't bottle hot.
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Feed: Saints Preserve, in reply to thegirlstefan,
or you can try ordering through these guys: http://www.arthurholmes.co.nz/index.php?cPath=1176
Yes! Several people have pointed them out to me but I forgot to mention them in the post.
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Feed: Saints Preserve, in reply to Thomas Beagle,
(I think we’re going to get two wee feijoas on our Wellington trees this year. Maybe next year…)
I don't think we've ever had less than approx. eleventy-million of the things.