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Step up to the mike …
Of vague interest to people on this site's server home for the last 18 years is being sold,. So I'm shoving a blatant advert in here for anyone who wants to buy an apartment.
After 28 years living at Siena apartments at the start of Ponsonby Road and K Road in Auckland, we're selling our last apartment there.
Its up for sale if anyone is interested in getting a reasonably priced 53 sq metre apartment in a well-run body corporate.
https://www.realestate.co.nz/42998489/residential/sale/3k-6-burgoyne-street-grey-lynn
I brought 1N in 1998 because I was tired of moving ISDN lines whenever landlords had a need to move me on. I rattled around there writing code, building my computers, and generally enjoying being alone in my own place.
My partner Lyn moved in in 208 and forced me to clean out the extensive computer part collection in 2008. She then brought 3K in 2017 to get on "the property ladder" and dragged me upstairs to pay her mortgage. I sold 1N in 2022 after I got tired of being a landlord and when Lyn finally allowed me to buy property with her.
I am really going to miss Siena. It is just a little too small with both of us now mostly working from home. So we will eventually get somewhere with a bit more space.
If you're after a affordable 53 square metre one bedroom apartment, with reasonable (and well run) body corporate and rates, really high ceilings, this is a good one. We also recently refurbished it and added extra power points that we have wanted since we moved in.
Currently we are renting in Invercargill for reasons that are too complex to describe. When we figured we'd be moving down country for at least 6 months, the question about where to put the site while we were renting here and finally moved it into the cloud.
Incidentally, does anyone know how to find the Labour electorate committee in Invercargill? It now looks likely that we will be here through winter (brr…) and probably past the election. I may wind up doing some volunteering here.
On yr final note…
We get a Black Box, a retail sampler of goods that they like feedback from. There is an Emerson's Hazy in this months offering. Reading the fine print, it recomends a "serving temperature of 8-10 C, or as we in Dunedin say Room Temperature."
🙂 I did my MBA at Otago over 18 months in the mid-1980s, so I remember the warming techniques. Then did 18 months working for Businessworld / Computerland while I waited for my partner at the time to finish her Llb/BCom
To Iprent at 1: reception @labour.org.nz will have up-to-date info re Invercargill contacts.
I assure you Invercargill will welcome you warmly!
Connected up with someone on the LEC.
Good news. Go well.
The Labour List MP based in Invercargill is Liz Craig. Her office will point you in the right direction.
Liz Craig isn't the MP there and has long since moved elsewhere. Honestly I'd start with the Dunedin Labour hub in South Dunedin.
Labour have been invisible in Invercargill since 2023. There is no sign of a nomination for the seat. I hope they get a good one to give Penny S the boot.
The area is one for party list activism.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/587940/new-report-exposes-potential-nitrate-pollution-in-southland
Hospital's got issues too
https://www.odt.co.nz/southland/hospital-chaos-claim-theatres-shut-down
https://archive.li/IpOBS
Do we have a Minister of Conservation in cabinet?
Does he know that our largest national park is in a World Heritage Area?
Or is the replacing birdlife with deer, not a problem yet?
https://www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/360960904/red-alert-rampant-red-deer-risk-irreversible-damage-fiordland
There is a conservation minister in Cabinet, but governments of all stripes treat the post as purely cosmetic
The economy is their sole priority, which explains why the current outfit want growth at any cost.
The logical bit
But with no ulterior motive, such as to acquire land (not permitted under the UN Charter).
This was the position of some Arab states, that there not be one in 1947. Thus a war in 1948. And another in 1967, after which land beyond its borders was occupied (with some credibility till peace with Egypt and Jordan).
In 1979, it was occupying territory awarded for another peoples nation state (despite it being required to facilitate this other state as part of its terms for UN membership in 1949) and in 1977 settlements began.
Nor an Arab Palestinian state "mandated" by the UN.
Not settling occupied territory, if it is an area mandated for another nation state?
The international rules based order is somewhat neutral, albeit inconvenient to those ruled by nationalist impulse.
But Palestine's destruction is OK?
Salaam.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360947174/helen-clarks-claim-attack-iran-undermines-rules-based-order-valid
What a great 6 Nations this season is.
Italy have their first ever victory over England and Scotland put 40 points on France. The score of that fixture blown out by 3 late French tries.
England were on a 12 match winning streak and have now lost 3 in a row and at risk of getting the wooden spoon.
Scotland are in a rich vein of form from being evens with All Blacks at 70 minutes, (only denied by freaksih performance from Damien McKenzie) through to a emphatic defeat of England.
I assume Borthwick has resigned?
Is there something rotten in the state of NZ mainstream media? There certainly is strange odour wafting from some top windows.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/mediawatch/588951/mediawatch-fears-of-interference-and-influence-in-news
And not even once was the Master Intimidator mentioned who loves to rail against journalists and RNZ!? At least he isn’t as sly as some of the others, but that’s not a compliment to him.
Been smelly for awhile with radio rantland ZB, TVNZ on it's leash and now with Grenon moves within NZME the spin, BS and misdirection will be alot worse than 2023.