tina n. posted an article on roarprawn.blogspot.com - Nov 27, 2009, 2:45 am
NZ TEAM WINS 5 GOLD MEDALS...
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tina n. posted an article on roarprawn.blogspot.com - Nov 26, 2009, 3:50 am
Tonight we went to one of the premium events of the Wellington Xmas calendar, the Treaty of Waitangi Fisheries Annual Christmas do. It used to be held at the Tug Boat and it was famous for some very ...
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tina n. posted an article on roarprawn.blogspot.com - Nov 26, 2009, 3:35 am
While we sort of get why Sean Plunket didn't win his case about being untreated fairly re his employment dispute with RNZ on a purist point, we are wondering why Commie Radio is so hell bent on de...
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tina n. posted an article on roarprawn.blogspot.com - Nov 25, 2009, 1:36 am
This is a face we reckon you wont see around parliament much any more. The fuzzy kiwifruit look alike , Tony Gibbs who represents Turners and Growers is getting the cold shoulder on the hill after i...
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tina n. posted an article on roarprawn.blogspot.com - Nov 25, 2009, 1:21 am
Right we are back to cheer leading for the Nats and of course the Maori party. the ETS is now bedded in and we cant change that so its time to get on with life. Now in the past parliament is pretty ...
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tina n. posted an article on roarprawn.blogspot.com - Nov 25, 2009, 1:13 am
The Aussie Rock says this is funny... He is right it is..
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tina n. posted an article on roarprawn.blogspot.com - Nov 24, 2009, 3:31 am
We are still pondering the ETS deal. Never ever before have we seen right wing commentators to a man and woman be so universal in their critical condemnation of a political decision. And that critici...
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tina n. posted an article on roarprawn.blogspot.com - Nov 24, 2009, 3:12 am
We are heading up to parliament tomorrow for a bit of a do. We have been invited by the most unlikely of people - It's a leaving do for a good bugger who is loved and admired by many. We met hi...
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tina n. posted an article on roarprawn.blogspot.com - Nov 23, 2009, 4:09 am
We really dont know what more to say other than today was crap- we are disgusted and dismayed for all the reasons we have outlined in previous posts.
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tina n. posted an article on roarprawn.blogspot.com - Nov 22, 2009, 2:35 am
If there is an iwi support group going to the Copenhagen Climate Change Talkfest, as part of the ETS deal, will they ask Hone Harawira how they can get to Paris? And will they fly to gay Paris ...
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tina n. posted an article on roarprawn.blogspot.com - Nov 21, 2009, 10:20 pm
It started here in NZ after Investigate magzine confirmed that some leaked emails circulating on the internet, from one of the worlds leading climate change research centres in Britain were not a hoax...
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tina n. posted an article on roarprawn.blogspot.com - Nov 21, 2009, 9:57 pm
We have being doing the toil in the soil thing all weekend, feeling the earth mother within.. Gaia unbound. So it was with dismay that we read a disturbing post over at Gotcha by Whale Oil. on the...
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tina n. posted an article on roarprawn.blogspot.com - Nov 20, 2009, 3:32 pm
For some reason we couldn't sleep last night and instead of counting sheep - we resorted to counting trees. Now we said that there was no way we were going to blog about Ngai Tahu and associated...
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tina n. posted an article on roarprawn.blogspot.com - Nov 19, 2009, 6:33 pm
Radio NZ has leaked papers show that Maori are wanting a treaty type deal over forest plantings. Remember all this against a backdrop of legal advice that shows that iwi are standing on the head of a...
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tina n. posted an article on roarprawn.blogspot.com - Nov 19, 2009, 6:09 pm
Should non commerical lawyers do commercial deals? Did RIM design trackballs on blackberries to help blokes finesse clitical aspects of the oral art of love? Did you get an invite to the National P...
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tina n. posted an article on roarprawn.blogspot.com - Nov 17, 2009, 10:21 pm
Our mates are in London for a special occassion and a holiday. One is there with our newest Knight, Sir Ngatata Love - a very respected academic, visionary and fine leader of his people. He took wi...
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tina n. posted an article on roarprawn.blogspot.com - Nov 17, 2009, 12:41 am
We are sticking to our guns and not blogging on Ngai Tahu politics. However Gotcha has a very interesting post on a woman who seems to be doing everything for everyone.. We may follow up in due course...
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tina n. posted an article on roarprawn.blogspot.com - Nov 16, 2009, 2:58 pm
We have been advised that Wellington's resident curmudgeon is about to turn 70 soon. Apparently someone near and dear to him decided to commission a book about his life to celebrate this most au...
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tina n. posted an article on roarprawn.blogspot.com - Nov 16, 2009, 3:11 am
We blogged the other day about the demise of our blackberry trackball. It had a terminal fur ball. Essentially Telecom's "authorised dealer" was going to charge us $250 to replace and fit...
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tina n. posted an article on roarprawn.blogspot.com - Nov 16, 2009, 1:56 am
We have been a bit busy today but managed to catch some face time with a good mates talking about texts, jail, buying up forests, help the government with its courageous new policies, Maori politi...
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tina n. posted an article on roarprawn.blogspot.com - Nov 14, 2009, 10:06 pm
Sometimes the best of times are not planned and this weekend served up a fair dollop of feel goods. For a start we, on the advice of one of our lunch companions on Friday, who is as much a Wairarapi...
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tina n. posted an article on roarprawn.blogspot.com - Nov 12, 2009, 10:44 pm
The famous legless one is on tour... John Thorpe, once was journalist, once was PR guru and once was sober ( in 2002 by all accounts - I was there wasn't I ?) and always a rambunctious, curmudgeo...
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tina n. posted an article on roarprawn.blogspot.com - Nov 12, 2009, 10:03 pm
Tim Shadbolt probably faces his toughest local body election for some time next year. He presides over a fractured Invercargill City council and it seems he feels undermined and uninformed. Personal...
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tina n. posted an article on roarprawn.blogspot.com - Nov 12, 2009, 9:46 pm
Today we had a snack with some fishy mates at Beaujolais We sipped a bottle or two of Lonestone Pinot Gris. It was dry , flinty and a hint of pear.. Extraordinarily good. Now over our lunch time c...
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tina n. posted an article on roarprawn.blogspot.com - Nov 12, 2009, 9:07 pm
We are delighted that National ( and especially Tim Groser) has managed to ignite an other free trade deal. This time between Hong Kong and NZ. The government is really setting a cracking pace with fr...
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tina n. posted an article on roarprawn.blogspot.com - Nov 12, 2009, 2:51 am
This is a tweet pic from Kent Baddeley one of NZ's great food artists.... Now resident here at Parehua in Martinborough... Dam fine food..... click on the image to get the recipe ... and we ...
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tina n. posted an article on roarprawn.blogspot.com - Nov 12, 2009, 2:35 am
We think this is an inspired move by the Minister of Fisheries. Phil Heatley. Previous Minister Jim Anderton was captured by his officials and put in a blanket ban on blue cod, a moved that stunned t...
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tina n. posted an article on roarprawn.blogspot.com - Nov 12, 2009, 2:24 am
Yip the whale chasers won. Well done Kaikoura... and of course Wally. The whale-watching company won the supreme prize at the Virgin Holidays Responsible Tourism Awards last night after taking top...
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tina n. posted an article on roarprawn.blogspot.com - Nov 11, 2009, 1:20 am
Our blackberry is an essential part of our communication arsenal. It has lessened the stress in our life and we have in the space of two years worn the bugger out. Well , we have worn the trackball ...
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tina n. posted an article on roarprawn.blogspot.com - Nov 10, 2009, 10:10 pm
We could hardly believe our eyes.. the caustic communists over at the Standard have for once got it right ... Its probably one of the best reasoned and well written issues on the Foreshore and Se...
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tina n. posted an article on roarprawn.blogspot.com - Nov 4, 2009, 2:16 am
Well apparently the tide is turning , people are starting to get more sceptical as more absurd claims are made about the impending doom we face as the planet does or does not get a bit toasty. So it ...
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tina n. posted an article on roarprawn.blogspot.com - Nov 3, 2009, 10:18 pm
Well we predicted this one over two months ago The Dom gets to it today - Finally with Bob jones talking about mounting a campaign we may finally have a decent local body election in front of us......
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tina n. posted an article on roarprawn.blogspot.com - Nov 3, 2009, 2:30 am
The Herald today covered the ascent of Wally Stone to Te runanga o Ngai Tahu... His words have a quiet humility about them. He said senior kaumatua and family had persuaded him to stand. "The thing ...
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tina n. posted an article on roarprawn.blogspot.com - Nov 3, 2009, 2:01 am
Political correctness is still alive and well in the public service.... Take this odd tale .. The Department’s Christmas Party is around a Carnival Circus theme and the poster created by the socia...
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tina n. posted an article on roarprawn.blogspot.com - Nov 2, 2009, 1:30 am
This is simply an extraordinary admission. Don Brash said today that he had made a mistake over the way National viewed the Foreshore and seabed issue.. He now understands that much of the trouble...
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tina n. posted an article on roarprawn.blogspot.com - Nov 1, 2009, 10:50 pm
We speculated yesterday that in the wake of the new Asset recovery unit that Gang members would be shifting their money off shore.. While there were external forces at work the dollar headed south...
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tina n. posted an article on roarprawn.blogspot.com - Nov 1, 2009, 10:24 pm
It has been bought to out attention that there is a new cult emerging to rival that of Destiny Church's Brian Tamaki. It is the Church of Jones- and the Bishop is Bob. If your name is Deborah ...
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tina n. posted an article on roarprawn.blogspot.com - Nov 1, 2009, 1:27 am
If Nikki Kaye has broken her ankle how will Ranfurly cope? Which well known mover and shaker is a Nigel No Mates on one board because his fellow directors are having trouble trusting him? Is it oka...
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tina n. posted an article on roarprawn.blogspot.com - Oct 31, 2009, 4:28 pm
Our son and his girlfriends dog Zeus is a ugly big monster but a complete wuss.... and he dislikes Helen Clark. However he came in mighty handy when there was a plague of trick and treaters turn up...
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tina n. posted an article on roarprawn.blogspot.com - Oct 31, 2009, 4:05 am
YIP THE BLOG POST OF THE MONTH... maybe even the year from the bad young boys at NO MINISTER... -- its here
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tina n. posted an article on roarprawn.blogspot.com - Oct 30, 2009, 2:28 pm

Richard Harman rightly gets snotty on Facebook over Tom Frewen's NBR

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tina n. posted an article on roarprawn.blogspot.com - Oct 30, 2009, 1:03 am
The best news we have had for a week. Wally Stone has been elected as a runanga representative of Ngati Wheke to the Te Runanga O Ngai Tahu ruling council. Wally , who has the huge respect of the New...
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tina n. posted an article on roarprawn.blogspot.com - Oct 29, 2009, 11:44 pm
We have been waiting for police to be given some serious firepower to tackle organised crime - that these days often has a respectable face. Essentially it means that if someone cant explain where t...
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tina n. posted an article on roarprawn.blogspot.com - Oct 29, 2009, 11:08 pm
We adore Great White sharks... and we wear the tooth of a 16 footer around our neck that our dad caught about 45 years ago. So were were agog at this story from Aussie where a shark took a serious bi...
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tina n. posted an article on roarprawn.blogspot.com - Oct 29, 2009, 3:33 am
We went to a superb event tonight. It was a birthday party.. Bril it was... There was a low brow affair over at Dockside and some Totty do at the other end of Shed Five but it was the Green Room...
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tina n. posted an article on roarprawn.blogspot.com - Oct 28, 2009, 1:39 pm
Its all about Bill this morning.... Kiwiblog has a analytical take on the English accomodation issue. Cactus on the other hand has a fascinating take on the deputy Prime Minister. And Home Paddock ...
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tina n. posted an article on roarprawn.blogspot.com - Oct 28, 2009, 1:17 pm
Cactus has an intriguing post this morning about someone who is having a breather from his missus and is more than a little concerned because he lacks some legal cover to protect his assets. Apparent...
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tina n. posted an article on roarprawn.blogspot.com - Oct 28, 2009, 3:54 am
We have an invite to the soiree that we think will launch the Wellington Christmas Party scene. Wellington's resident Patsy is the birthday host. Everyone without an invite is Green with envy. A...
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tina n. posted an article on roarprawn.blogspot.com - Oct 28, 2009, 3:06 am
Right for the second time in the history of Roarprawn we see the need to moderate the comments section of the blog posts. Both times it has occured over Ngai Tahu issues. Ngai Tahu debate on the Mara...
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tina n. posted an article on roarprawn.blogspot.com - Oct 27, 2009, 4:03 am
We were delighted to hear today that former Ngai Tahu CE Tahu Potiki is to represent Otakau at The Table , the tribes ruling council. Tahu is an abrasive, arrogant big shit but he does have a good h...
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