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Story of courage in mourning should never be forgotten
Last Wednesday cricketer Bob Blair died on his 94th birthday and we lost a link with the most moving cricket story of all time.
Nothing Too Serious
Foul language one way to lose me
Foul language one way to lose me
Massey University runs a Quote of the Year contest and last year’s winner tended to confirm that bad language is now becoming acceptable.
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Let’s hear it for the 80-year-olds - a premier generation
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Let’s hear it for the 80-year-olds - a premier generation
What a great job the octogenarians are doing.
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Among the poets and poplars during a Central Otago autumn
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Among the poets and poplars during a Central Otago autumn
Ah, what pleasures come with autumn! It’s a season for all men.
Comedy and tragedy of Manders
Comedy and tragedy of Manders
Let us, thankfully, ignore our boring MPs and tell of a far more entertaining MP from the past — Henry Manders.
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A peek at the past of a country pub looking to its future
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A peek at the past of a country pub looking to its future
As anyone in Patearoa will tell you losing your pub is a big blow in a small township.
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Presidential library is a coup for small Otago township
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Presidential library is a coup for small Otago township
President Trump’s advisers, fearing a backlash during the mid-term elections, have urged him to scale back his gargantuan and ostentatious presidential library in Florida and that’s good news for...
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Speight’s is 150 years old and I’ll definitely drink to that
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Speight’s is 150 years old and I’ll definitely drink to that
On Saturday I drank a toast to Speight’s.
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Writer reaching out for support in condemning reaching out
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Writer reaching out for support in condemning reaching out
Today is dentist day. Deep in dread I’m girding the gums for an onslaught of needles and drills, cowering under a cloud of cowardice and lamenting my mistreatment of the molars for so many years.
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There is evil on the internet and we all need to be wary
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There is evil on the internet and we all need to be wary
I am not much into computers although I have a laptop which I treat as a fancy typewriter able to send messages.
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Intrepid tales of a rebel bikie and his troubles with the law
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Intrepid tales of a rebel bikie and his troubles with the law
Our caring government, never afraid to tackle the big issues, has legalised kids under 12 riding bicycles on the footpath, but for me this seismic shift in the legal landscape has come too late.
The Thing is just the thing, but just what is The Thing?
The Thing is just the thing, but just what is The Thing?
The find has the place in an uproar.
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Funds needed to shore up Butler’s Wall at Arrowtown
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Funds needed to shore up Butler’s Wall at Arrowtown
There's a race on to preserve part of Arrowtown’s heritage.
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Print, radio or on screen, the Man Of Steel still the hero
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Print, radio or on screen, the Man Of Steel still the hero
They tell me there’s yet another Superman movie doing the rounds. Probably called Superman XXII in what seems to be an eternal series.
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The saga of the trees which proved someone is listening
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The saga of the trees which proved someone is listening
So, you have a new-look council.
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The Yank on the Spit - an entrepreneur at Waikouaiti
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The Yank on the Spit - an entrepreneur at Waikouaiti
They treasure their past in Waikouaiti.
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The pub you have when you don’t actually have a pub
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The pub you have when you don’t actually have a pub
What has this National government (forget the hangers on) done for the rural communities, who for seven decades have returned them to power more often than not?
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No book is entirely useless — let’s support all of them
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No book is entirely useless — let’s support all of them
When Rudyard Kipling wrote "a man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition" he probably had me in mind — apart from the ammunition, of course.
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Let’s hear it for Hampden, where it’s all happening
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Let’s hear it for Hampden, where it’s all happening
Twice lately there have been headlines about happenings in Hampden.
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The kind of alchemy a Patearoa writer happily endorses
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The kind of alchemy a Patearoa writer happily endorses
Years ago, when family trees were all the rage, genealogists would painstakingly produce family trees which resembled an impenetrable forest of little use to those outside the family.