Stunning discovery !

The heat is a killer on mid day runs which, combined with kiwifruit, bananas and carrots guarantees a .... need. I can now confirm something heard but not quite believed til now , that Dock leaves do the job and in fact are rather soothing.

The reason being they contain alkali which will neutralise acidic bee stings, ant venom and gastric acid. Maybe I can convince Mark Ellis to market them and put Mr Spencer out of business.

Say goodbye to going out on the piss 'with the boys' Tea

I'd rather not be a fly on their wall.

Just as well she's blond. A redhead told me I'd get a jwb if I was lucky

"Where've you been?"

"Nowhere much" said Sam.
We don't live in Haythornthwaite like Sam and Aunt Mill, nor do we have one of them magic balls to dispense punishment to our #1 'Mustavacrisp', W Bell who is a rotter.
Life was much simpler in 1971.





Great show Nigel !

If the rest of Nigel's shows are as good as tonight's we'll all learn plenty about our communities and the problem of serious offending - yep that's all of it - over the next 5 weeks. This guy definitely has 'practical hard core knowledge and experience of the system in operation'.

Talkback will go nuts about the reality of our ability to handle these guys and give our kids a safe future. It will be fascinating to see how the pendulum swings re the soft versus hard options. I'm firmly on the fence supporting both - whatever works.

Police Concert at Western Springs

Classic venue ruined by the seating arrangements. No wonder Sting said "Whats the matter Auckland?" and some zombie said "Sit down! I didn't pay $350 to watch you standing in front of me" (no I didn't hear this one). The pricing policy of $$$ = SIT up front means plenty of people who want to dance have to get into it miles from the stage where there is no vibe going.

I hope the promoters reconsider and allow at least some of the 'general admission' access near the stage. True the old days of pushing and shoving against huge gang members weren't that great either but I fondly recall following Cindy barging up to the front at Tina Turner back in the days she remembered what weed is. Since when are dance floors at the opposite end of the hall from the band? Moronic. I'd have to say this was the straitest crowd I've ever seen at a concert and had a laugh picturing the gang bangers buying their Police T Shirt and answering mum's/the local Sgt at Arm's "Where have you been ?" with " At the Police Concert. It was Awesome !" Kind of cuts out a chunk of potential audience right away.

RE Samsara's "Only Gripe was they did not have enough bathrooms and the line was literally 200m at one point". As with the Stones I was once again pleased to see one or two guys among the v. long ladies que for the gents sit downs and pleasantly assured by pervy hand washers that the sight was "Nothing we haven't seen before". No problem with the bar closing at 8.30 except I missed Fergie doing Black Dog while in the JD que.

Texas Hold'em and Last Card

Great games for the whole family.

Niece (6) of H1 and my #3 (7) whipped 4 others, me included, one recent evening. Awesome to watch their shocking table talking and upping the ante at every opportunity. Very intimidating when you've got squat in the way of cards or chips. Increasing minimum bets and going 'all in' cleans out the losers and bluffers real fast.

Have been challenged to 'first to 3 wins' Last Card every day for two weeks by #3 who has whipped me 3 zip on occasions, I maintain there are winning techniques which I'm trying to hone with each series, like using an ace to change suit if opposition is Last Card (rather than using a card, cutting odds they have same card diff suit) and laying down the 2 or 5 asap and holding another out card to bluff having 2. The kids also get into Cheat LC which I can't get off on having read Edward's bio on Helen, whose dad was strongly anti it. Just joking, saying 'X of hearts' 5 times in a row is pretty cool.

Commie plonker !

John Minto's response to Mike Moore's article on poverty is unconstructive bullshit. His only contribution to inspiring a future direction was to state "It's worth remembering that democratic rights, to the extent we have them, were never granted freely to anyone. People have only gained civil and political rights after bitter, violent struggles".

Yes I can appreciate that many of the countries leading the GDP/PPP stats have struggled but does he believe the only civil rights are gained only via violent struggles? Where were the violent struggles that gained women the vote in NZ (or Switzerland in 1971) or knocked down the Berlin wall? (Damn shame that was, don't you think John?)

I'd love to watch the expression on the faces of Palestinians, Israelis Iraqis, Somalis (and everyone else living in a war zone for over 5 years) if he could be given the opportunity to stand in front of them and say: "The only way to for you to gain civil and political rights is after bitter and violent struggles".
I have no doubt there would be many cheers, but mostly stunned silence meaning 'What a fuckwit!'

Does he repeat this drivel to everyone he meets? Should he speak to this guy?

A mini republic of lawlessness operates that police find hard to crack.

W S Moss wrote in 1950 "I should explain that ....'swiping' or 'pinching', but hardly 'stealing' - is something of a ...sport. ...it is an institution rather than a passtime, and therefore provides little amusement for the foreigner, but in both places sympathy is usually on the side of the 'pincher' rather than the loser. If you allow someone to steal from you, it is you who are the mug, he the clever fellow. It's quite simple really."

Enjoying simple pleasures

Unlike JK I can't yet stand on my board but that didn't stop me enjoying an hour floating and paddling around in the crappy 1.5m onshore surf at Waihi.
Now I'm back home.
Same depressing state of affairs. Countdown has run out of Chorizo. Bloody Jamie Oliver strikes again.
And "Yes , it's reasonable not to check the 'dairy' part of the fridge at the bach and leave the unopened parmesan behind!"
Life's tough. Next week at work then another 2 off. Bummer.