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Post by grant on Oct 26, 2006 18:26:33 GMT
Hi All. Catching back again (shortly) in the meantime the picture Richard has been anxious to have posted. I think it was the only one I took. I had been assuming Grant had been taking pictures. So, have we no record of this extraordinary event? Other than this (if it works!).  I'm using photobucket as a depository for the first time. Thanks again Richard. It was a lovely trip that turned into a lovely lunch and after-noon. It is so long since I had a lunch that started in the late morning and ended near tea-time. It reminds me of my buying days when I was turning such offers down left right and centre to avoid being compromised by diverse agents anxious to grab a slice of the £1million annual budget I once had--of someone else's money I hasten to add!! Peter S Thanks for posting that Peter, I do have some pictures but they're still on the CF card 'cos I don't yet have a reader thingy!! Grant |
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Post by Joe on Oct 27, 2006 0:38:20 GMT
Hi Peter  Great photo of Richard! I thought I recognized that corner shop before.  Richard, I hope the police weren't around...there's a report of alamp-post gone missing and someone standing on a double yellow line!  Cheers, Joe |
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Post by Martin on Oct 27, 2006 19:46:40 GMT
Until I recognised it was Richard I thought someone had posted a photo from BBC'c Crimewatch !! Seriously though, the following lyric comes to mind from a famous George Formby song: "I'm leaning on a lamppost at the corner of the street in case a certain little lady comes by". Martin  |
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Post by Richard on Oct 28, 2006 7:52:42 GMT
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Post by postscript on Nov 1, 2006 11:33:30 GMT
Hi Peter Great photo of Richard! I thought I recognized that corner shop before. Richard, I hope the police weren't around...there's a report of alamp-post gone missing and someone standing on a double yellow line! Cheers, Joe Love that response Joe. Double yellow lines! That reminds me of a story relating to one of the multi-multi-milionaires I met in my 'Celebrity' thread contributions which I haven't got round to posting yet! Gosh, so much happening all round! Peter S. |
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Post by jons on Nov 1, 2006 17:03:41 GMT
Hi All. Catching back again (shortly) in the meantime the picture Richard has been anxious to have posted. I think it was the only one I took. I had been assuming Grant had been taking pictures. So, have we no record of this extraordinary event? Other than this (if it works!). I'm using photobucket as a depository for the first time. Thanks again Richard. It was a lovely trip that turned into a lovely lunch and after-noon. It is so long since I had a lunch that started in the late morning and ended near tea-time. It reminds me of my buying days when I was turning such offers down left right and centre to avoid being compromised by diverse agents anxious to grab a slice of the £1million annual budget I once had--of someone else's money I hasten to add!! Peter S See that sleeve in the bottom right hand corner? Thats a traffic warden coming to issue Richard with a ticket. |
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Post by grant on Nov 1, 2006 18:52:47 GMT
Hi All. Catching back again (shortly) in the meantime the picture Richard has been anxious to have posted. I think it was the only one I took. I had been assuming Grant had been taking pictures. So, have we no record of this extraordinary event? Other than this (if it works!). I'm using photobucket as a depository for the first time. Thanks again Richard. It was a lovely trip that turned into a lovely lunch and after-noon. It is so long since I had a lunch that started in the late morning and ended near tea-time. It reminds me of my buying days when I was turning such offers down left right and centre to avoid being compromised by diverse agents anxious to grab a slice of the £1million annual budget I once had--of someone else's money I hasten to add!! Peter S See that sleeve in the bottom right hand corner? Thats a traffic warden coming to issue Richard with a ticket. Sorry to dis-illusion you John!! But that sleeve belongs to me!! Grant |
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Post by jons on Nov 3, 2006 16:07:27 GMT
So much for the "Hayley will have to leave the country" comment on the photo. I was expecting something rude. |
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Post by postscript on Nov 12, 2006 18:11:38 GMT
Now why am I coming back on this thread? Well, it is in fact a myriad link to a thread I've been meaning to create but have not yet come round to doing, while also linking with singular topicality!
Following the All Angels signing at HMV that wasn't (except for a few of us!) Richard took us on this superb jaunt that brought more amusement than was originally intended, since it highlighted the tendency for certain London lamp posts to disappear. Probably under the spell of Hayley's enchantment, like the rest of us, and seeking out her new location for they had already missed her!
We then partook of a little light refreshment and had some debate about a corner related to Newmarket (mentioning yet another thread in passing!) and went our separate ways in the mid- to late after-noon.
My way home was to take one of my irregular meanders through London streets as I believe Hayley loves to do and in due course I ended up at the Duke of York's steps, leading from The Mall into Pall Mall. To my left was St James's Palace. To my right Trafalgar Square. The hour was such that I decided to make it a night at the theatre. So I processed towards Trafalgar Square and up the Haymarket.
What did I discover is at the bottom of the Haymarket? Why, New Zealand House! I went in and asked if there were any facilities for casual passers-by interested in gaining some background to New Zealand.
I had expected to be directed to the tourist office but, no, after checking-in with the desk there is a small lobby area down a few steps in which one can read the latest NZ papers.and collect a wealth of general background knowledge about New Zealand, geared to both the potential emigrant and the long-term tourist.
I came away loaded with literature (not really sensible since I was going to buy a theatre ticket) and having spent some time catching up on NZ news.
This is why, in I think Belinda's 'tourist' thread--which perhaps is really where I should have posetd this? But I'll leave that to the Mods to sort! I observed that there was not much difference between our two countries as far as the news on the previous three day's national newspaper headlines were concerned.
Perhaps in numbers of lesser significance than here, the news wasn't much different. A couple of teenage hoodlums had stolen a car, managing to crash it on the main highway seriously maiming a totally innocent driver approaching in the oposite direction, while killing one of themselves.
There was talk of drug abuse problems and anti-social behaviour. None of the theatre/cinema advertisements seemed to carry any major inernational film title, but higllighted that there is an antipodean film industry of which I for one know little of here. Why do they not hit the main screen circuits here? Too parochial in their story line, as did appear possible?
I suppose the greatest difference was the lack of numbers. These were incidents known here but the quantity of them far sparser. in fact the NZ nationals in layoout, quantity of articles and content were more akin to a major 'local' paper here than a national paper.
However, that contrast that I did notice on this first visit and perusal seems to emphasise that we over here may well find it quiet over there! Too quiet, perhaps?
Much more to find out. Getting to know a country takes a long time and it is as much a matter of absorbing its culture as 'reading up' on it.
I mention it, only because there are several I believe interested in visiting NZ. There is a very friendly welcome and quite extensive provision in NZ House where one might peruse and invesgtigate at one's leisure and it provides that little addiitonal link witha country with which I believe many of us are falling in love with as the result of our fascination of a certain young lady who has won not just our hearts but our inspiration, admiration and respect.
Peter S.
PS: The other thread I was going to create that linked with this? Well, likewise it covers myriad issues but all of them current and I have just discovered we are coming close to a biography of Rudyard Kipling which i wish to watch so, another time!
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Post by Richard on Dec 11, 2006 15:18:02 GMT
Hello Grant! Thanks for posting your photograph of me on the All Angels sub-board. I'll post it here as well so you can compare it with Peter's. i.postimg.cc/9fYxy370/smilie-big-grin.gifBest Wishes, Richard |
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Post by postscript on Dec 12, 2006 15:35:56 GMT
But comparisons be so odorous...  Peter S. |
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Post by Belinda on Dec 19, 2006 2:01:13 GMT
Hayley will be on NZ TV,
Christmas Eve it is an old program Christmas Mania 2004
Donny Osmond and stars Hayley Westenra,Ronan Keating,Katie Melua and II Divo sing Christmas classics
TV One 7.30 pm
Belinda NZ
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Post by scoobedoo on Dec 19, 2006 5:07:50 GMT
Hayley will be on NZ TV, Christmas Eve it is an old program Christmas Mania 2004 Donny Osmond and stars Hayley Westenra,Ronan Keating,Katie Melua and II Divo sing Christmas classics TV One 7.30 pm Belinda NZ Hi Belinda,thanks for the imfo, I will record it onto a DVD, Take care, Cheers, Rodders |
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Post by Belinda on Jul 15, 2007 20:14:26 GMT
Hi Belinda, Thanks so much for taking the time to explain how you got to know the Westenras, in addition to the story behind 'Groovy Kind of Love'! Fascinating!!! Would you be willing to pen the second volume/ sequel to 'HW The World at Her Feet'? I would be willing to pay a very healthy sum of "candies" for that!  Andrew Oh i missed that opportunity, they never asked Andrew  Belinda |
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Post by grant on Oct 2, 2007 17:56:39 GMT
Hello Everyone Article from "The Press" Christchurch - 19th July 2005  This article was in the centre of the front page. Best wishes Grant |
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