Tag: new zealand
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April 19, 2007 01:02 AM EDT --
It's Peter Jackson's fault.
Before the world's richest hobbit decided to poach half the cast of Shortland Street as bit actors, we weren't that used to seeing our countrymen and -women . . .
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April 21, 2008 06:27 AM EDT --
It's time for "Ask Monsieur Wineau", a question and answer column by the man who is perhaps the World's Greatest Authority on wine. Perhaps.
Dear M. Wineau,
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March 27, 2007 02:04 AM EDT --
What can I say about New Zealand? Well, it’s not part of Australia. If you think I’ve said that before you’d be right. Thanks to people like Rob I’m gonna keep saying it too. Maybe I should start . . .
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April 04, 2007 11:40 PM EDT --
I guess I should start by repeating my previous caveats, that you can't trust a bleedin' word that slithers off my keyboard .
Okay, I've prattled on previously about the most important . . .
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April 11, 2007 01:36 AM EDT --
Okay, I've now covered Auckland and the North Island . That just leaves me with the South Island.
You can't miss the South Island, no matter how hard you try. It's the big appendix-shaped . . .
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October 26, 2008 10:53 AM EDT --
Yesterday I went to the mall, by myself. A real rarity when you have a 13 year old daughter.
So I was free to spend as much time looking at what I wanted to look at - all day! I spent a long time in . . .
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April 22, 2007 05:59 AM EDT --
It wasn't till I became a parent that I started to hang out, religiously, at all the playgrounds of Wellington (of which there are 102). Every suburb has one and, thanks to awesome rennovations . . .
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December 05, 2007 05:41 AM EST --
The New Zealand Government introduced legislation on December 4th banning the construction of any more fossil-fuel baseload power stations for the next 10 years. The ban applies to new baseload . . .
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May 30, 2009 10:28 AM EDT --
Does it snow in your place? Do you like it? I never snowed here in our place but i rains a lot. I think snow is better than rain, because you wont really get that wet if you go under the snow as compared . . .
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July 19, 2006 05:48 AM EDT --
This is a blog Orby O and I did years back in order to settle forever:
The great Pavlova debate
In 1935, chef Herbert (Bert) Sachse of the Hotel Esplanade . . .
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January 12, 2007 02:40 AM EST --
In an interview on New Zealand television actor/singer/comedian extraodinaire Jack Black said he had enjoyed his Tenacious D tour here, but he had to confess to not liking vegemite.
He had actually tried . . .
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March 20, 2007 07:16 PM EDT --
A Gather friend enquired whether I would like to write about my little corner of the world, New Zealand. To ensure that nobody ever makes that mistake again, I present to you my Condensed history of New . . .
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March 07, 2008 07:58 AM EST --
Our friend (Riyadh) and his other half (Rupa) recently flew down to Auckland from Sydney giving hubby and me an opportunity to show them around. Riyadh . . .
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March 31, 2008 08:21 AM EDT --
Our friend (Riyadh) and his other half (Rupa) flew down to Auckland from Sydney giving hubby and me an opportunity to show them around. Riyadh & Rupa could only . . .
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April 20, 2008 11:04 AM EDT --
I have contacted Gather on this issue several times but either they don't care or don't know what to do about it. I STILL keep getting the New Zealand/wordpress comment spam thing
SO
Now . . .
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April 25, 2007 05:52 AM EDT --
Wellington Zoo, the first Zoo in New Zealand, has just celebrated it’s 100th Birthday. Gone are the Chimp’s tea parties and elephant rides. Steel cages are slowly being replaced with . . .
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May 26, 2007 08:36 PM EDT --
This was taken from a deck on a cafe during our holiday to Mt Taranaki, New Plymouth (New Zealand). We were tired after tracking for 3 miles to see a waterfall and came to the cafe for a break. . . .
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August 02, 2007 10:28 AM EDT --
I read this article this morning and it makes me so sad.
The lamb in the picture I've attached with this article was born on Friday with 7 legs: 3 hind legs, 2 front legs, and 2 legs that hang useless. . . .
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April 25, 2007 05:54 AM EDT --
Today, the 25th of April, is ANZAC day for those of us in Australia and New Zealand.
My friend Magi published an article about ANZAC day this time last year and with permission I reproduce . . .
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June 27, 2008 08:20 AM EDT --
Crocodile Tears in your Beer: Aussie barflies get visit from baby croc
Those of us who grew up watching professional wrestling had, at one point or another, to come to terms with the fact that . . .
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