The Listener arrives at our house each Saturday morning. The most recent edition, on the newstands 16 June, has a cover photo of Julia Hartley Moore with her SUV. Inside the magazine there is another photo of Julia Hartley Moore with her beloved SUV and a pull-out quote which reads: It’s sticking with me till […]
I wrote posts during the Wellington Mayoralty about the abundance of classic cars being driven by would-be councillors – no doubt in an attempt to be noticed. It’s happening again, but with the general election. Perhaps it’s just a Wellington thing but I spotted Stephen Franks, National Party candidate for Wellington Central, driving a very […]
What a day. Helen Clark called it a ‘storm in a teacup‘. How could I have ever imagined a small thing like the acquisition of an American stock photo by a Labour Party designer could get the whole country so riled? My humble blog post today alone had 1909 hits (as of 11.20pm) – that’s […]
A part of me, actually the biggest part of me, wanted the Irish to win the test match at the Cake Tin last Saturday night. They came close. My impression was that the All Blacks played a rather mediocre game, regardless of how bad the conditions affected the play of the ball. My lack of […]
Today I cleared the mail – nothing there except for a Labour Party pamphlet on “What the 2008 Budget means for you”. The main photo was of a very happy looking family, apparently very content with what Labour was offering – personal tax cuts; funding for teachers and more operations in hospitals; investing in rail […]
Folk at work directed me to the video on the TV3 website of Yulia and Glyn talking about being stalked by Punkas.com. I have previously commented on Yulia’s talents, indirectly via a poll that the ‘wonderful’ people of Stuff ran on “who is hotter – Yulia or Hayley?” Glyn responded to my post, in defence […]