Posts by James Francis
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OnPoint: MSD's Leaky Servers, in reply to Russell Brown,
It’s like WTF is her calling in life.
Press Secretary in waiting?
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OnPoint: MSD's Leaky Servers, in reply to Sam F,
The absolute certainty, the utter conviction, the unswerving faith. <Goes to tear hair out. #1 cut. Bugger> I've never seen this blogger before and I trust I never read her again.
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Hard News: A storm in any port, in reply to Andre,
Through Omaha? Oh, yes, I like it.
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Capture: Roamin' Holiday, in reply to Steve Barnes,
This is like my great-grandfather's house at Oruru, a wee bit inland from Mangonui. It's gone now but I remember going to see it with my Dad; a tiny three room cottage (although cottage is rather a twee word for something made from pit-sawn totara with hand-made nails) that was once home to five people but now housed a few dusty hay bales. It's where we kids learned the family story. My great-grandfather was Portuguese and had jumped ship from an American whaler with three other Portuguese lads in Mangonui. They all settled in and around Oruru and Fern Flat and Peria. The names and the families are still there; the Jecenthos and the Da Silvas. My great-grandfather is buried there, somewhere. My holiday this year is going to see if I can find his grave. I've decided to have a miniature mid-life crisis at the same time by doing the journey around Northland in my Mum's (and now my) 1963 Fiat Bambina. I'm going to travel putteringly slowly and see the place I call home with grown-up eyes. My plan is to write about it but I haven't told anybody that.
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OnPoint: Dear Labour Caucus, in reply to Paul Williams,
Seconded. Thirded.
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Cook's Notes
(Has this been done?)
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The Salivation Army
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'sup
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ED&BM
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The Well-mannered Cook