tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post6746392709068425314..comments2024-03-16T21:03:05.280+13:00Comments on Bat, Bean, Beam: This is New Zealand - Asian EditionGiovanni Tisohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-64143838402376560532009-09-10T22:48:16.174+12:002009-09-10T22:48:16.174+12:00re. herbicides and sheep... yes, sorry. (I would b...re. herbicides and sheep... yes, sorry. (I would beg for Emma's pardon, but we haven't sorted out our safe word yet). <br />re. pine needles. Sorry, no mysteries there, so you can moderate the rest of this away. Grass grows fine when there are just a few scattered pines in a paddock, and not at all in a dense forest. <br />The agroforestry trial had trees at spacings from 50 trees per Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-11641318119683093462009-09-06T09:37:39.480+12:002009-09-06T09:37:39.480+12:00I think Emma might have referred more the killing ...I think Emma might have referred more the killing of the grass than the harming of the sheep. And I'm still curious as to how they got around the pine needle issue - do you have the inside story on that?<br /><br />I've located a copy of the potato film in a media archive just outside of Rome. Enough to warrant a special trip there, I reckon.Giovanni Tisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-71015715177593552072009-09-04T22:48:54.549+12:002009-09-04T22:48:54.549+12:00And because your readers are stressing about the p...And because your readers are stressing about the poor sheep, I'll just add that the herbicidal properties of needles are not of great concern to them, seeing as how they’re not herbs and all. But pregnant cattle eating needles can spontaneously abort (“spontaneous” in this context possibly imparts a false sense of frivolity to proceedings).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-35948394094659296072009-09-04T22:46:42.291+12:002009-09-04T22:46:42.291+12:00Gio, we're just getting started! The caption ...Gio, we're just getting started! The caption you admired tells 4 words, the photo a thousand more. But the FILM version came out a couple of years later and beat out over 100 entries to win first prize in a European Film Festival – the “Magna Mater” award (as a good Italian boy you’ll appreciate that’s a Very Big Deal Indeed). Actually I’m surprised you didn’t recognise the still – you’ll Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-30258257620875725112009-09-04T18:30:47.627+12:002009-09-04T18:30:47.627+12:00Would it enhance your appreciation of the caption....<i>Would it enhance your appreciation of the caption...</i><br /><br />Would it ever! Thank you very much for that.Giovanni Tisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-16828892562253371192009-09-04T15:51:11.836+12:002009-09-04T15:51:11.836+12:00Would it enhance your appreciation of the caption ...Would it enhance your appreciation of the caption to know that "integrating farming and forestry" is from a research trial at Tikitere, just out of Rotorua, and the research showed<br />...drum roll... that it was a disaster for both forestry and farming. At that spacing on ex-pasture sites, trees quickly get fatter than normal mills can handle, while they're still at an age where Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-15291667373223908602009-05-31T12:09:57.949+12:002009-05-31T12:09:57.949+12:00Punching my weight
into the timeclock,
I am waitin...Punching my weight<br />into the timeclock,<br />I am waiting for<br /> the cargo to fall.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04424066726955708314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-72971914026318929282009-05-31T09:26:47.660+12:002009-05-31T09:26:47.660+12:00Lovely, HB. I think that the many proponents of th...Lovely, HB. I think that the many proponents of the rhetoric of the underdog forget one important thing, though: generally, the underdog gets hammered. (Case in point: the Chiefs overnight.)Giovanni Tisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-72788830021975158762009-05-30T18:55:58.084+12:002009-05-30T18:55:58.084+12:00Underdog with Dairy Cow
1.
Here the trees now gro...Underdog with Dairy Cow<br /><br />1.<br />Here the trees now grow like grass;<br />to bear aloft a modern people.<br /><br />Tane Mahuta, in a yoga headstand,<br />will render his mother 100% pure.<br /><br />The face of Tu at Anzac Cove<br />with poets and publicists makes the nation.<br /><br />A hall of parliamentary portraits<br />not bigots, fools, but friendly ghosts.<br /><br />2.<br />Megan Claytonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03584562106579704547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-7707142881523468932009-05-29T18:01:18.937+12:002009-05-29T18:01:18.937+12:00He always used to say how he wasn't really Italian...He always used to say how he wasn't really Italian etc etc and he had spent years out of the country... Then one day he turned up in a pink jumper...katyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15742280289613450293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-83808786829108365672009-05-29T14:05:33.581+12:002009-05-29T14:05:33.581+12:00He is from Milan, though, right? Hence he must be ...He is from Milan, though, right? Hence he must be heavily into in fashion. I should know!Giovanni Tisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-86634540547224256142009-05-29T14:00:30.229+12:002009-05-29T14:00:30.229+12:00Giovanni, I have a good friend who is originally f...Giovanni, I have a good friend who is originally from Italy (from Milan), he has no interest in the topic of food/cuisine and maintains that that was onre reason why he had to leave :)katyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15742280289613450293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-19994642639215082162009-05-29T13:39:26.623+12:002009-05-29T13:39:26.623+12:00Katy, I know what you're saying about feeling chur...Katy, I know what you're saying about feeling churlish, I get the same about the assumptions that come with my nationality (although I draw a pretty strong line under "you must be a catholic").Giovanni Tisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-69788114853564441912009-05-29T08:39:45.284+12:002009-05-29T08:39:45.284+12:00Hugh, Stephen, Giovanni: http://en.wikipedia.org/w...Hugh, Stephen, Giovanni: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C5%8Ddai-jikatyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15742280289613450293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-73876743069762078822009-05-29T08:36:35.379+12:002009-05-29T08:36:35.379+12:00Gorgeous - thanks for that!
I have been in situat...Gorgeous - thanks for that!<br /><br />I have been in situations abroad confronted by statements such as, "You are from New Zealand. You must like rugby!" where it felt churlish not to go agree. Dodgy representations of the farming industry or race relations seem only a small step beyond..katyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15742280289613450293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-31108299208314526012009-05-29T04:58:03.887+12:002009-05-29T04:58:03.887+12:00Giovanni, I think there's a temple in Japan that's...Giovanni, I think there's a temple in Japan that's bigger, but the floor area thing might be correct.<br /><br />However, I think there's a generic need to be sceptical when New Zealanders tell you that something is the "biggest/tallest/longest in the southern hemisphere". When they say this they usually mean "in Australia and New Zealand". I used to constantly hear people say that Colombo DPF:TLDRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06372937855256319716noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-945170236358740232009-05-28T21:21:15.554+12:002009-05-28T21:21:15.554+12:00Thank you Daleway, that's an interesting piece of ...Thank you Daleway, that's an interesting piece of background. Having since read his bio, Renouf was certainly of a whole other generation than the lot that was putting the "New" back in "Zealand". <br /><br /><I>i'm certain i've seen that sheeptree photo in another setting..</I>.<br /><br />Does anybody know how they did it? I mean, they didn't vacuum up the pine needles, surely.Giovanni Tisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-27815556682081604972009-05-28T13:26:57.068+12:002009-05-28T13:26:57.068+12:00i'm certain i've seen that sheeptree photo in anot...i'm certain i've seen that sheeptree photo in another setting...<br /><br />i think there were other projects to try mixing silviculture and husbandry in the 90s? <br /><br />harvestbird, if you're taking requests what about "here the trees grow like grass".<br /><br />word verification: stedness, the reason i always get the boring checks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-3840606060133103822009-05-27T15:54:52.517+12:002009-05-27T15:54:52.517+12:00Funnily enough I was looking at a new one of these...Funnily enough I was looking at a new one of these last week - from MFAT (?) selling/justifying/excusing NACT's newly business-targeted foreign aid policy. <br /><br />Many of these big brochures are written by public servants against the clock and often against their grain as well. Or are slammed together carelessly by contract writers from government press releases. <br /><br />Sir Francis was Daleawaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-45603705779314360412009-05-27T09:19:43.220+12:002009-05-27T09:19:43.220+12:00@Paul: I need to get this book to you, I see no ot...@Paul: I need to get this book to you, I see no other solution. We'll discuss a suitable method of transportation (I'm thinking refrigerated container).<br /><br />@Stephen - <I>the most in the Southern Hemisphere</I>.<br /><br />Funny you should say that. I'm always used to reading or being told that Old Government House is either the larget wooden building in the southern emisphere or the Giovanni Tisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-34735492512340381122009-05-26T17:28:15.434+12:002009-05-26T17:28:15.434+12:00This is relevant to my interests, as they say. I h...This is relevant to my interests, as they say. I have the American and Western Pacific editions, but not the Asian.<br /><br />The 1982 American edition has a forward which observes that Richard Pearce tried to fly and eighty years later, the space shuttle Columbia was launched. From these events it concludes, "the spirit of New Zealand and the spirit of America meet in the love of freedom and ofPaulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08024440694895271805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-79534872826237470982009-05-26T16:01:31.038+12:002009-05-26T16:01:31.038+12:00We punch above our weight -- the most in the South...We punch above our weight <I>-- the most in the Southern Hemisphere</I>.stephenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04486889878636801969noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-46466330862532792552009-05-26T15:40:24.999+12:002009-05-26T15:40:24.999+12:00Jake: you are so on.Jake: you are so on.Megan Claytonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03584562106579704547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-27256228686418976272009-05-26T15:22:10.826+12:002009-05-26T15:22:10.826+12:00Harvestbird: If you're taking requests, I'd like '...Harvestbird: If you're taking requests, I'd like 'punching above our weight on the global stage' to be included in this week's accompanying piece.Jakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11926193718680225217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-86518395421828402592009-05-26T14:40:50.247+12:002009-05-26T14:40:50.247+12:00Are you telling me that a tycoon's finance company...Are you telling me that a tycoon's finance company went bust and the <I>tycoon</I> lost 90% of his money? Boy, those were the days, huh?<br /><br />Paul: yes, my people must talk to your people. There is a section on architecture in the book, if you're interested. Glossy and verbose. I can try to scan it for you if there are no copies at your library - it would be a bit piecemeal on account of Giovanni Tisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.com