Posts by Robert Urquhart
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Capture: Great Southern Land, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
if someone could just talk to this family,
organise a Working BeeI'm part of a group of volunteers working on making something of their other property - or at least slowing the rate of deterioration - talking to the family is nigh impossible, we sprang from serendipity and a blog post found by someone who had contact with the property manager.
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Hard News: Fact and fantasy, in reply to Robert Urquhart,
... Except at some point the link has started 403ing. Oh well.
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Seems like it might be tangentially of interest ...
http://www.marklynas.org/2013/01/lecture-to-oxford-farming-conference-3-january-2013/
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Hard News: Looking at Leveson, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
They ended up pushing this poor nurse into the limelight, and too far, purely to amuse themselves – abhorrent.
And in fact this was the nurse who originally took the call because there was no-one at reception at something like 5:30am in the morning - not the one who later gave out the details (on a line she must have had even reason to believe had been properly vetted) who must be feeling even worse right now :(
I personally absolutely loathe prank situations and calls, those perpetuated by the media most of all, and this is an extreme and very sad example of why.
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Something the camera couldn't capture - the scent from this lady packed a punch.
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Completely tangental, but
http://lookslikescience.tumblr.com/
(I can’t remember where I found this, may even have been posted on PA previously) -
I also got out with my camera after the recent snow in Christchurch
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What, nobody has included this yet?
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I really don’t like this bit – maybe quote out of context, maybe not …
The minister has expressed concern about councils getting involved in social issues …
As our local elected representatives I fully expect our councils to pay attention to social issues. Now he may be talking about banning gang patches or prostitution bylaws but he could equally well be eying up things like the large amount of social housing Christchurch City Council provides.
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Capture: Ngāi Tahu, in reply to Adrienne Rewi,
I was just wondering if you were one of the persons who stopped him and asked for a photo. I was a few steps behind in much plainer dress. (If I'm going to keep getting pressed into service I must get myself a fitting jacket.)
I took a few photos at the event but nothing spectacular.
