Posts by sandra
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Thanks Hilary, this is such a nice tribute to the wonderful Jeanette. I was on the Haiku Pathway today with some American visitors and your mum's boulder was admired and photographed.
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And what happens when the Fairfax-NZME merger takes place? One giant paywall, I expect ... and yet, they've annoying people with rubbish. Not a smart business move.
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Great story, thanks. I was taught (a little) to touch up black and white photos using a fine paintbrush and shades of grey, black and white. Back in the 70s my parents bought a package - b/w aerial photo of the farm which was then hand-coloured and framed. Unfortunately, the colourist read the instructions written on the b/w proof incorrectly and a tree ended up covered in pink flowers. (The line to where the pink should have gone continued on through the tree.) Never mind, it's still a great photo and still hangs in the farm house.
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Two things regarding this nonsense that people (including New Zealanders, apparently) can't tell our flag from that of the Australian flag:
1: It's different
2: It's different.Seriously, as a starting point our flag has red stars; our flag doesn't have one big white star. Okay, that's that fixed.
Here's something else that isn't much said: We got our flag first, made official in 1902 and having been used (on ships) since 1869. Australia adopted its current flag in 1908, but didn't make it formally official until 1954! Let them change theirs, if they're so worried.
A new flag is definitely what John Key wants as his legacy - every time he sees one fluttering he will grin that grin.
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Sorry to be a pedant, but ...
Rob, your second paragraph has typos in it, presumably it should read:
We've seen plenty of that from him in Parliament already.
And 4 paragraphs up from the bottom, you've spelled behaviour incorrectly.
Please feel free to delete this comment when (if) you make the changes.
Cheers.
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Hard News: Mt Eden: Not a closing but an…, in reply to Grant McDougall,
(Sorry not in reply to anyone, I've foxed myself)
Here’s my ‘a view of Auckland you don’t see every day’.
Walked up with my son a few days after Christmas. Daughter flying back to Aus. brought us to Auckland and we wondered what we could do that we hadn’t done for a while. She wasn’t feeling 100% so sat in the shade with her dad while the lad and I followed the road – although soon worked out that it would be faster to get on the tracks that others were using.
I have been to Mt Eden once before, by car. I much preferred it without the vehicles.
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Love the not-so-subtle message in today's Herald ... John Key posing with the selected contender (ie, holding it up full length) with the current NZ flag shown as pretty small and kind of lying beneath his feet (yes, almost an after-thought). And by 'love' I mean 'detest'.
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Hard News: Art with a job to do, in reply to Lilith __,
I’ll be voting to retain the current flag because I want to protest the total lack of designer-input and the pretend public-consultation, not because I have a particular attachment to it.
Yeah, that's pretty much my view. If we're going to have a new flag (and there's no reason why we shouldn't) it's got to be something special. I have no real beef with the Lockwood designs, except that it looks like a Team New Zealand tee-shirt (Sean Plunket, gaaah), something you'd see athletes don as 'casual wear' at international meets.
From the long list I was drawn to Mike Davison's Black Jack, but now that Lilith has pointed out the tukutuku stars flag, I'm interested in looking at it further. And that's the crux I think. We (the silent majority) weren't given a chance to assess the long list, it was all down to a faceless panel in a room somewhere. Why even show us the long list?
The road show came to Tauranga but was so under-publicised I didn't know the meeting was taking place. I intended to make my opinion heard but that didn't happen. And's that kind of how the whole process has felt. Sure, I got to vote but I got to vote for flag designs I hadn't had a hand in choosing, the choosing of which resulted in three fern designs from four, then five, options. It's been a mess.
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Up Front: Reading Murder Books, in reply to Soon Lee,
Thanks so much Soon Lee. Have bookmarked it.
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Home is where the honey is … we’re renting a beehive and the beekeeper turned up yesterday to harvest our first crop. Husband was hands on and I was the photographer (and Alan is the one directing operations and who actually knows what he’s doing).
The photo of the jars shows most of the end product (there are a few random glass jars filled now too) – we ended up with 10kg of spring on our bench!
I've blogged about it here: https://sandrasgardenblog.wordpress.com/2015/12/13/82bee/
