Bloody hell – my body aches, and it all has to do with rusty nuts. Not those rusty nuts. These rusty nuts…the Rusty Nuts Grand Challenge – 1,000 miles in 24 hours on a motorbike – scheduled in my calendar for the last weekend in October. There are two training regime techniques for this ‘event’: […]
Two companies, Southdown Holdings and Five Rivers, have put an application in to start a dairy operation that would see 18,000 dairy cows housed in pens known as free stalls. You can see the application here. What are these people thinking? And why are the Federated Farmers supporting them? Apparently there is a plus side to this […]
10.20pm: The election result is panning out as the media has been predicting – a victory for National. Winston Peters is delivering his concession speech – beaten resoundingly by the young Simon Bridges (majority of 10,862 to national with 89.5% of the vote counted). Winston delivered a gracious speech congratulating Tauranga for voting in a […]
There’s a good thing going on over the ditch. Someone came up with the idea of getting advertising agencies to pitch for an impossible job, all in the name of fun. Past pitch attempts have been for the return of child labour; to make the humble plastic bag fashionable again; to make celibacy sexy… You […]
John Key is not going to be able to use the “New Zealanders flee to Australia in record numbers” line for much longer as a criticism of the New Zealand economy, and by inference using it to attack Labour. The economic outlook for the Aussies is as bad there as it is here. According to […]