Posts by JLM
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Another vote for New Zealand Idle, and sorry if I've just given anyone a "Dead puppies" earworm.
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For Dunedinites and other hardy southerners - a pair of socks pulled over the shoes let you stride out on icy pavements without worrying about slipping. Don't understand the physics, but it works!
I cut an old pair of woolly work socks down the front to get them to fit over and they lasted a winter, but last frost I pulled on a loose pair of airline socks as far back as the heels, and it worked just as well.
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I have a plan for rural communities too - Villages. The idea is to build a community by bringing it closer together and not living on isolated farms.
When a friend was showing me round in Nova Scotia some time ago, she pointed out the villages settled by the French - all the houses clustered together, from which the families would depart to work their fields - and those settled by the Scots - each house on its own farmland down a long lane.
No prizes for inferring our dominant heritage when you look at the blight of lifestyle blocks.
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By the way, it's World Carfree Day today. The slogan is "Go carfree and don't stop". So there's a challenge to work towards.
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I heard David Parker speak at Otago today. He's obviously stoked that most people like their plan, and he still loves his electric cars. Every time I've seen a presentation by him he's had a slide of a different one.
One (at least) excellent thing though, $3.7 million ear-marked for biochar (terra preta) research.
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Listening to SJD on Natrad as I type.
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Yeah Riddley, that's what I meant about dog-whistling.
The Listener's free to take any position it wants, but I'm also free to decline to renew the two subscriptions I currently support.
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I agree with Terence, Pamela Stirling is a good writer, and she did some wonderful stuff about violence against women and children back in the nineties, when some of the men on the staff were pretty skeptical.
She has a bit of a bee in her bonnet about the NCEA, but that's the most consistent thing I've noticed about her opinions. But under her editorship Gordon Campbell went and Joanne Black arrived, so that says something, I suppose.
Jane Clifton makes me laugh out loud, and she's usually even-handed enough for me to have been very surprised to find out that M McCulley was her partner. But when I heard that Joanne Black's partner worked for John Key, I was not (surprised that is). I now read her page with more interest than I did, in case she's a secret np dogwhistler and spinner. So this week her verdict on the Section 59 Bill was interesting - Labour and the Greens swallowed a dead rat. Not how I saw it.
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Sue Kedgley and Garth George are on the Panel today! (Tues)
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Sarah, I saw a new paperback copy of Marianne Dreams in the Dunedin UBS a few days ago for a few bucks. Would you like it?