Posts by Joe Wylie
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Good Jelly the Nun?
Excellent!
Tho not too far from reality. There was a local amateur stage production in the 80s where Badjelly's cat's name was bowdlerised from Fluffybum to Fluffy - some more innocuous part of it's anatomy. Kids voiced their protest, and were berated by a member of the cast who informed them that Fluffybum was 'rude'. -
"the relatively small sum at stake in his accommodation expenses problem."
is double what most benficiaries make in a yearThe great majority of beneficiaries must get by on under $15k p.a, including any rent allowances.
Also English's Government has quietly halved the allowance of respite care for the elderly, from two weeks to one. Nicely timed to kick in at midwinter. For many of the old and frail in the colder parts that still attempt to do for themselves, it's been a tough one.
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Excellent post Dyan, thank you!
By all accounts C J MacDonald is a great guy. And being compared to Castro by Bill O'Reilly has to be a ringing endorsement.
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. . . hospitable drinks from home-made ginger beer through coffee - the Islay malt hoard...
Thank you! Previous attempt to visit the big O was decades earlier. My clutch burnt out a few miles (yes that long ago) short, and I had to push a heavy motorbike back to the main road before hitching to Franz.
Must be something in the ginger beer that keeps the beasties at bay - or quite likely the single malt. I believe Scotland has sandfly issues too.
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. . .the nude gambolling that goes on here in Big O . . .
Now I'm curious. Not about the nudity per se, but about the sandfly factor. See, I finally got to visit your big O at the end of May (not for want of trying in the past), and stayed about half an hour, just before sundown. Very impressive, though was squashing the last stragglers of the vast sandfly swarm that had hitched a ride most of the way to Haast. And I bled real blood, too.
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Does The Soft Boys' (I Want to be an) Anglepoise Lamp count?
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I love that song *so much*, like a crazy embarrassing gushy amount . . .
Know what you mean. Best experienced in the dark, in case one happens to dribble.
Unfortunately I was three for most of 1978, so my concert-going was fairly limited...
Thanks for reminding me that there's an upside to being old.
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Embedding disabled by request - watch here.
Ghosts - - - of the Civil Dead (1988).
Not the Sensible Setencers' favourite movie. -
78 at Western Springs . . .
Along with the weather, Bowie's manner that night lent a special warmth to a great show. The lowered lighting and sound-tower speaker-jumping during the intro to Station to Station confounded the sense of scale, setting up a kind of intimacy that lasted through to the the encores. Then again, substances may well have enhanced the experience.
Few would have known how sick Bob Marley was when he performed there a few months later. His distant tranced-out performance couldn't have been a greater contrast with the outgoing Mr. B. Very much the opposite of what might have been expected.
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Bravo Mr. D, that's as heavy with multiple meaning as a thimbleful of neutrons.
Over at TradeMe someone just bid $19 for Sir Howie's xmas CD. While there's no sudden rush to cash in on any rare surviving examples of those brown "I'm Indiginous" lighters bearing the phrase he made mildly famous in the 80s, the thriving commerce in the lawnmowers, bikes, barbies and leafblowers that bear his name is a greater memorial than any graven image.