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Forum: New Zealand
May 16th 2010, 4:20 am
Replies: 17
Views: 2,550
Posted By newt

Re: MEET UP IN RANGIORA

Hi all, never made it to Canada, funny how life changes, living in Ashley now with my good lady (who is from Lincolnshire) and our baby daughter....keen to catch up with a few other expats for coffee...
Forum: New Zealand
Jan 12th 2009, 9:58 am
Replies: 26
Views: 20,521
Posted By newt

Re: what's it really like living in Auckland?

Depends what you're looking for, and what you're used to, I suppose. I haven't been back to Auckland in 16 years....but wild horses couldn't drag me anywhere near the place, thankyouverymuch.

It...
Forum: New Zealand
Jul 5th 2008, 7:17 am
Replies: 11
Views: 1,679
Posted By newt

Re: and now its snow time

It does from time to time, depending on where you are, the Central Plateau gets a decent dump or two most years, ditto the Napier-Taupo highway and the Rimutakas north of Wellington. I have even seen...
Forum: New Zealand
Jun 29th 2008, 8:24 am
Replies: 37
Views: 3,697
Posted By newt

Re: North Vs The South....moved to main forum

In my wildest dreams, I can't imagine it having got any better, when all the things which were making it bad have, by all accounts, become worse.

And in any case most of the Jafas are going to...
Forum: New Zealand
Jun 25th 2008, 5:42 am
Replies: 37
Views: 3,697
Posted By newt

Re: North Vs The South....moved to main forum

Not really a bump, but FWIW:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10518234

Bye Auckland - South's appeal reverses the drift
5:00AM Wednesday June 25, 2008
By Simon...
Forum: Canada
Jun 22nd 2008, 6:10 am
Replies: 30
Views: 3,235
Posted By newt

Re: Does anyone live in Saskatchewan?

Why do so many people have such a problem with "Rednecks"? :confused:

Self, as an example; I live in (well actually about 5km from) a small town (Population about 5,000) in remote rural Central...
Forum: Canada
Jun 20th 2008, 8:08 am
Replies: 20
Views: 1,238
Posted By newt

Re: The recent Irish 'NO' vote - explain??

Europe 2030.

There are three major blocs.

1. Commonwealth of Britain, Ireland, Benelux, Scandinavia, Portugal. Currency: The Pound.

2. Federation of France, Germany, Italy, Spain. Currency:...
Forum: Canada
Jun 20th 2008, 7:57 am
Replies: 9
Views: 736
Posted By newt

Re: Bill C51

There are no conspiracies.

Politicians and the media are not in the pay, directly or indirectly, of the pharmaceutical companies.

All University researchers are completely independent. Their...
Forum: New Zealand
Jun 14th 2008, 1:18 am
Replies: 33
Views: 2,400
Posted By newt

Re: HELP WANT CAN WE TAKE/NOT TAKE??????

We have Jeyes Fluid here, along with pushbutton phones, and joined-up writing, and petrol, and the Internet, and electricity. ;)

There are also shops which sell furniture. And beer. And all manner...
Forum: New Zealand
Jun 13th 2008, 11:32 pm
Replies: 5
Views: 600
Posted By newt

Re: Tauranga's shake up

Remember a couple of good 'uns in amongst the many, one about ten years ago which must have been really shallow, to this day I swear I heard it coming, ran through the house at a rate of knots while...
Forum: New Zealand
Jun 13th 2008, 11:17 pm
Replies: 20
Views: 1,697
Posted By newt

Re: Are you worried about your children ...

Aeroplanes, schmaeroplanes. In the future, we'll have teleport, just step into the booth, press the button, and ka-bam, you're in wherever.

Let's see the A-rabs try to hijack THAT!

....they'll...
Forum: New Zealand
Jun 13th 2008, 9:42 am
Replies: 20
Views: 1,697
Posted By newt

Re: Are you worried about your children ...

They'll have both passports, panic ye not, they'll sort it out.

Pomgolia is a good place to be, ditto NZ, and Oz also. They will have all those options.

Have faith.

;)
Forum: New Zealand
Jun 13th 2008, 9:29 am
Replies: 4
Views: 539
Posted By newt

Re: out for a reccie

Ooh, 'tis been a long time since I lived in the North, I grew up in the Waikato, but of the places you mention, Hamilton would be my pick, Cambridge if you're well heeled, or maybe Matamata.

Can't...
Forum: New Zealand
Jun 13th 2008, 8:55 am
Replies: 31
Views: 3,091
Posted By newt

Re: The Other face of New Zealand

The Kaueranga eh, splendid place, done much tramping there, Hoffman's Pool, done the high platform (only once :ohmy:), grew up about 20 minutes from said paradise, on the Hauraki Plains.

Strangely...
Forum: New Zealand
Jun 12th 2008, 6:45 am
Replies: 5
Views: 1,633
Posted By newt

Re: Snow chains in Christchurch

You might get snow on the roads in CHCH once in a blue moon (the hills notwithstanding). If and when that happens, they'll be graded and gritted.

Ice is a different story, but chains won't be much...
Forum: New Zealand
Jun 11th 2008, 11:33 pm
Replies: 12
Views: 3,099
Posted By newt

Re: Help High Lver Count

Nurries and ta. :)

GGT can also be elevated by smoking, aspartame, and some medicines and even herbal preparations. Again it shows the big organ is working, but it can mean blocked bile ducts as...
Forum: New Zealand
Jun 11th 2008, 10:12 pm
Replies: 12
Views: 3,099
Posted By newt

Re: Help High Lver Count

Your Doc should be able to explain that liver enzymes are produced in response to certain stimuli, and as long as the rest of the results are normal, then while the liver is still producing the...
Forum: New Zealand
Jun 11th 2008, 8:35 pm
Replies: 12
Views: 3,099
Posted By newt

Re: Help High Lver Count

GGT usually = alcohol. However it can also be generated by hystamine response and foods high in tyramine, ie anything aged or fermented, cheeses, smallgoods, etc. (They all share the alcohol...
Forum: New Zealand
Jun 11th 2008, 11:16 am
Replies: 31
Views: 3,091
Posted By newt

Re: The Other face of New Zealand

I never presumed such. ;)
Forum: New Zealand
Jun 11th 2008, 11:04 am
Replies: 31
Views: 3,091
Posted By newt

Re: The Other face of New Zealand

Since an overwheming majority of Brits will never leave Britain, let alone settle in New Zealand, I can't argue the reality of that. ;)

Perhaps I should have said "a majority of the Poms who...
Forum: New Zealand
Jun 11th 2008, 10:40 am
Replies: 31
Views: 3,091
Posted By newt

Re: The Other face of New Zealand

There is much sooth in what you say. I think the thing people should take from it, is that while New Zealand may have been the setting for Middle Earth, that doesn't mean that the whole country is...
Forum: New Zealand
Jun 10th 2008, 4:29 am
Replies: 31
Views: 3,091
Posted By newt

Re: The Other face of New Zealand

Could be a troglodyte thing I suppose, and yes, there is always a bit of a thrill with a kill; that said, I probably come home empty handed as often as I fill the freezer. Wild animals do taste...
Forum: New Zealand
Jun 9th 2008, 11:26 am
Replies: 31
Views: 3,091
Posted By newt

Re: The Other face of New Zealand

Many of us in the boonies are rednecks, without being gay, or anti-gay, or sheepshaggers, or even (gasp) racist. :ohmy:

Personally, I think the liquor store owner in question should have been...
Forum: New Zealand
Jun 9th 2008, 7:23 am
Replies: 37
Views: 3,697
Posted By newt

Re: North Vs The South....moved to main forum

No, 'course there isn't. (http://http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10515198&pnum=0)

Many of my Mum's family still live in and around Manurewa (apart from the ones...
Forum: New Zealand
Jun 7th 2008, 12:27 pm
Replies: 345
Views: 45,623
Posted By newt

Re: STEP CHILDREN

Hell's bells, I thought it was bad enough when we (self and ex) moved to the South Island in '94, told her ex (father of the kids) we were thinking about it last thing on the Tuesday night, and hit...
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