tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38893560.post3331557972463012933..comments2023-10-08T12:11:52.993+13:00Comments on New Zealand Conservative: Friday Night Free For AllLucia Mariahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10485990994973953860noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38893560.post-25980332405204678042011-02-26T14:14:26.688+13:002011-02-26T14:14:26.688+13:00Hi FFM - yep, added a comment under the original t...Hi FFM - yep, added a comment under the original thread. Just running out the door, will chat later.ZenTigerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07888629207437612884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38893560.post-45489879468809340762011-02-25T23:51:31.953+13:002011-02-25T23:51:31.953+13:00Any words on family and friends down there Zen?
I ...Any words on family and friends down there Zen?<br />I hope they have all turned up safe and well.<br />I enjoyed a year in Christchruch around 2003-04 living in Sydenham.<br />All the people I knew/know are fortunately safe.<br />It was a worrying couple of days tracking them down.<br />We will have all suffered and the impact will be global. <br />The local tv news last night in Yorkshire featured a backpacker chef who was killed. His dad lives in my parents' village and knows my brother.FAIRFACTS MEDIAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09278035907912171422noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38893560.post-77618348286461862632011-02-25T22:44:44.986+13:002011-02-25T22:44:44.986+13:00Definitely a young 'un. A literal child of th...Definitely a young 'un. A literal child of the 60's, where all of those things had no visibility to me, and I could only learn of them rather than experience them (but I got there in time for the full experience of Labour in the 80's)ZenTigerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07888629207437612884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38893560.post-88258176550300549112011-02-25T22:29:40.543+13:002011-02-25T22:29:40.543+13:00Aha ...so still a young fella then Zen.
Must say i...Aha ...so still a young fella then Zen.<br />Must say it started this small town boy on a lifetime course of learning ... Rosenberg & mopeds, Unger & Freud, Blampied & his not quite behavioural paradigms, Shakespear & dipthongs - saw Muldoon on stage, & he was always both quick of wit & witty - without peer - & all this pre the deregulated 'trickle-down,' that marked the beginnings of the adding of intensity/passion and different meanings to such terms as Te Tiritiri O Waitangi, biculturism, colonisation, racism, the mass benefit rush, benefit as lifestyle choice, when the notion of maintaining people in work (even be it by subsidy) was deemed providing an unfair competitive edge (not of maintaining routine, ongoing access to others & moderation of excess)- they were romantic times ... 'twas after that we were 'rogered.'mojohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18400094599778512902noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38893560.post-62919533760435225232011-02-25T22:01:09.900+13:002011-02-25T22:01:09.900+13:00Evening Mojo. Yep, it's been a few years sinc...Evening Mojo. Yep, it's been a few years since I actually lived there - was born there before JFK was shot, and moved up north around the time the USA made a giant leap for mankind.<br /><br />But the occasional trips in years after always had a good home town feel to them.ZenTigerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07888629207437612884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38893560.post-82958304412650290812011-02-25T21:52:39.466+13:002011-02-25T21:52:39.466+13:00Evening Zen. Must say Christchurch holds an especi...Evening Zen. Must say Christchurch holds an especial place for me too ... spent my first two years at university there mostly in the town site, when Ilam was but barren lands with a few buildings. The romantic connotations remain.<br />It is indeed, all so sad ... albeit, as I said, the positive connotations remain, and probably always will.mojohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18400094599778512902noreply@blogger.com