Posts by Sofie Bribiesca
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Can anyone point to a time when National were anything but ice cold, bold faced, .......shifty.... oh I give up, the list is too long. I have no faith in them caring about anything other than themselves, and their lobby.
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.He is pretending he has no options and that is patently not true.
Oh yes I agree. I was just pointing out a dairy that has already stopped selling tobacco a year (at least) ago and the consequence for them. I found it a bit ironic that they now sell the plants though. Also I have mentioned this to others at the pub and I know several were going down to get a plant.
Still, I noticed the other day that advertising propaganda appears to have been live and well back in the day as this magazine page indicates -
OnPoint: Association of Community…, in reply to Bart Janssen,
The dairy here up North has stopped selling cigarettes. People now travel 10 km to get their tobacco and because of that they also get bread and milk and veges and the newspaper and any number of items once bought at the dairy. Business has dropped quite a lot and perhaps because it's a coop and some were against the stoppage , I now see one can purchase Tobacco plants which must be selling well as they sell lots of papers up there and never stopped selling the trusty zig zags. I now understand why ;)
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Capture: Roamin' Holiday, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
But it is a history worth telling, I believe. I imagine that your average GI was a more interesting and exotic creature for many NZ women than your average Kiwi bloke, in these times.
Aye. Exactly as my parents tell it.
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Capture: Roamin' Holiday, in reply to Chris Waugh,
Ugh, I find the painting in that link really quite abhorrent.
The feeling (and explanation) of that painting was still felt when my dad was based in Christchurch in the fifties. And mum did go down to the wharf (with the older sister who needed her for a "blind date" with a couple of Marines ). Happy I am, that turned out well, for they got married soon after. Plus I , one of their little bundles of joy, arrived to confirm their (Catholic faith) enduring love for each other. Ahh, the luck of the Irish huh? ;)
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Capture: Roamin' Holiday, in reply to Hebe,
The colour of a jacaranda is repulsively Dame Edna to me. Startling but unpleasant to my eye.
But, but, but, my Hebe in Aucks is the same colour! ;)
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Capture: Roamin' Holiday, in reply to Gudrun Gisela,
It is just off State 1 near Kaitaia and I have seen a few around Auckland.
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And a Rose is but a Rose.
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Which is my wee Eucomis Sparkling Burgundy
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Capture: Roamin' Holiday, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
That's cool Geoff. We even have a colour theme going on here too, so I will continue but make way for a chance to merge into another colour :)
