Posts by Rob Hosking
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The Adventures of Robin Hood was the first programme to screen on New Zealand television, on June 1, 1960.
It'll come up in a pub quiz one day ...I am only slightly disturbed by the fact that I knew that...
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Luxury.
18 km on my bike. Each way.
Sometimes I took the long route.
And we had cardboard box. Etc.
Rob Hosking, feel free to clear your throat.Let me guess...it was either that or your old man had to sell you for medical expuriments. On account of every sperm being sacred, and all that.
On the cow pat thing... I don't recall any kids doing that, but my dad does.
The road I grew up on - and where my folks still live - doesn't have any photos but then I suppose a half mile cul de sac with half a dozen houses on it way out in the country isn't all that photogenic.
Although I see one of the neighbours has, according to Google Maps, a leather goods business. I'm going to assume its for the local horses.
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They get the top of our hedge and the mailbox on Alexandra Rd (in Welly). House is below the line of the road, although you can see the green Holden Vectra parked in all its crumbling majesty on the car pad.
Taken I would say early last summer. The hedge has been clipped and the people on the other side of the gully are still building their gazebo.
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The balance sheets look fair:
But when they try to operate -
Liquidity's not there!John Clarke did something very similar to this...
My tape of it is buried somewhere under a pile of magazines but I can recall the line:
__Shout 'Raffle!' in a crowded room
Liquidity's not there.__ -
Science just replaces magic.
Or religion.
But that's a whole other kettle of fish. And loaves.
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Science just replaces magic.
Or religion.
But that's a whole other kettle of fish. And loaves.
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Seventies Sci Fi - the only one I remember enjoying was Timeslip, which was a children's sci fi early 70s. Anyone else remember that? Two kids, a boy and a girl, found a hole in a fence which turned out to be a door into other times. The first one took them back to WW2: another was to the future which was either frozen or globally warmed. The girl met herself later in life.
I'm another 'fall over first day of the holiday' sufferer. Usually a massive migraine. Its as if the body goes 'OK mate, catch up time!!'
Except when I go tramping, funnily enough.
A friend has recommended taking feverfew the week beforehand - tried it last break and it seemed to help.
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One Laurie Saaaaanchez!
To the tune of 'Guantamera'.The Aussies have been using that one for a while...Paul Kelly even has a 'One David Gower, there's only one David Gower...' as a fade-out song on one of his albums.
Here's a suggestion for a highly adaptable NZ song: The Clean's 'Beatnik'.
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Meanwhile I'm still trying to track down that classic gem featuring Rod Vaughan being introduced to Bob Jones' knuckes.
Burned on my brain, that one. So is the Palmer tootling on the cornet thing. From memory he had a crappy straw boater on as well as a cheesy grin.
Hell, if I could plug the memory into Youtube and download it's be a riot.
Second thoughts, maybe not.
There's some ugly stuff there....
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Yep, the Irish have done it for a long time. Always thought it showed class.