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Country Lane: September 2009
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The view from a quiet country road in Appleby. Monday, September 14, 2009. Now it's a Campaign. I'm just going to keep pointing them out and maybe someone will take notice. They probably won't. Samantha Hayes last night in Nightline. West] should of.". It's not local usage. It's not a debatable grammatical point. It's not some arcane aspect of English grammar that nobody cares about. She just wasn't speaking English. On TV1 this evening: apparently someone sent Patrick Swayze's. I like telly. I like.
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Country Lane: May 2009
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The view from a quiet country road in Appleby. Thursday, May 21, 2009. So the top entrepeneurial minds of New Zealand got together yesterday to generate 5 ideas to get our economy pumping. Bright minds, thinking outside the box get together at a summit to tell poor old, dumb, lazy New Zealanders how to make a buck. They came up with this:. Flying Kiwi Fund: A capital fund to attract investors to help fund the growth phase of small to medium-sized businesses. Again a good idea. But hardly original. When I...
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Country Lane: December 2009
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The view from a quiet country road in Appleby. Monday, December 14, 2009. Last night on 3News reporting on the premiere of The Lovely Bones:. It is the ommitance of those details that has unimpressed some fans". It's true. That's pretty much what the reporter said. I might give up now. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Subscribe to Country Lane. Appleby, Tasman, New Zealand. View my complete profile.
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Country Lane: October 2009
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The view from a quiet country road in Appleby. Friday, October 16, 2009. I was at our local last night. The Travellers' Rest. The name sounds like one of those appalling, '70s, faux. Spanish jobs with a stuck-on brick facade and a "family restaurant". It's not, though. The Trav. Is the real deal. The building is at least 80 years old, wooden, two stories and was once actually a travellers' rest being positioned, as it is, in the middle of the Waimea. From Richmond. The Waimea. These days the Trav. Needs ...
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Country Lane: November 2011
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The view from a quiet country road in Appleby. Monday, November 28, 2011. A Move to the Centre? Been away. Now I'm back. Post election. A bit grumpy but also encouraged. I've been reading the analysis and wondering if we're missing something. Mostly I've been interested in this idea that the Green Party have moved to the centre resulting in their excellent numbers. I further wonder if the move away from Labour is a similar process. Yes - I do notice the surge to Peters and the Conservatives. But mayb...
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Country Lane: Books for Blokes
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The view from a quiet country road in Appleby. Sunday, November 29, 2009. I attended the launch of this year's Book for Blokes on Sunday. It is always a moving and enjoyable experience. I was lucky enough to be brought up in a house full of books and was always encouraged to read. Now it's just part of my life, not something I even think much about. Was a roaring success. At the launch of the second. I was motivated to write a story for the competition myself. It is the first story I've ever complete...
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Country Lane: December 2011
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The view from a quiet country road in Appleby. Wednesday, December 7, 2011. Give me strength. Charter schools. There is a discussion. On The Standard in which posters such as "Leary" do a much better job of dismantling the non-arguments of the Right than I can so I'll stick to what I know. The thing is that if New Zealanders want an example of how National Standards and Charter schools will fail our kids they need look no further than Government funded tertiary education. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Country Lane: Betrayal
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The view from a quiet country road in Appleby. Wednesday, November 25, 2009. Who the heck do I vote for now? I was so proud to be a New Zealander. When the Maori Party entered parliament. I had enormous respect for Pita because he’d done the yards and although I wasn. 8217;t a Turia. Fan I had to respect the fact that a: she walked and b: she came back on her own terms. I saw a country come of age when they took their seats. Not only supported them but done a dodgy deal for their mates at the same time.
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Country Lane: Agent of their own demise
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The view from a quiet country road in Appleby. Thursday, November 12, 2009. Agent of their own demise. I've finally worked it out. I was always pretty good at maths but it seems putting two and two together on this occassion. I couldn't work out why if Nick Smith is so hell bent on taking ACC. Apart at the seams he would install his own man at the top. Why not just run the NACT. Campaign of lies about the financial state of ACC. And blame it on incompetent. Party have set up ACC. As the TARGET. As ACC.
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Country Lane: June 2009
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The view from a quiet country road in Appleby. Friday, June 26, 2009. It started years ago in Wellington. Which is sort of significant in the light of the current scene. In the early eighties, in what is now the home of the Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra. I picked up a uke. We had a theatre group called "Bricks". Bricks mostly performed kids' theatre in schools and summer festivals. Two songs by "The Lunchtime Intellectuals". One of the LT's. Two songs was Shirley Bassey's. Pineapple ukulele&...
