Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com God help us; the bloody Herald has done it again and provided a lengthy “update” on Millie Elder Holmes’s “progress” in her 14 days hotel room quarantine. So, what has Millie done? Found a cure for cancer? Nope. Written a novel, learnt to speak
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com A Greg Harford, described as the Chief Executive of Retail NZ which is apparently a shopkeepers association, had an article published on the Stuff website. Specifically, he called for building owners to subsidise his members for their decline in sales and losses due to the
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The Herald’s Ana Samways, always good for an amusing offbeat story, reports an Australian study shows physical attractiveness results in lighter court sentences. To that I say, quite bloody right. Ugly buggers should be locked up permanently, whether guilty or not. Good-looking people (like
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com As always, with elections there’s new parties popping up, none of which will register meaningfully in the polls. I include the Maori Party, now under the joint leadership of John Tamihere, in that category as I suspect it’s done its dash as the
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Despite the polls I have a gut feeling the election will be a close-run race. The Nats have taken a beating thanks to MP scandals plus the party’s extraordinary decision to pluck as their leader, an obscure MP, who in two terms had never
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Our Glasgow office manager David rang the other day. He’s in the office with only one staff member in attendance, she a young Russian girl (the others are in a necessary ‘lockdown’ because the schools are closed and they have children) while another, my
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com John Key is 100% correct. The economic crisis lying ahead is immensely greater than the health (COVID) threat. The latter can be managed but requires realism which is sadly lacking. For months numerous different experts have claimed a vaccine will be found/won’t be
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The TAB nearly went broke during the lockdown and required a government bail-out. Confining its activities to sports betting, notably horse-racing, meant it was out of action for 3 months. That said, betting on one’s judgment in a sports event adds a fun dimension.
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com AUT Associate Law Professor Khylee Quince (I didn’t make that name up although she may have done) has begun a fortnightly column in the always excellent Saturday Dominion-Post. She opened the batting last week with a piece on school kids wearing hair styles contrary
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Scarcely a day passes without our dying newspapers publishing something about Harry and Meghan. The items are invariably empty speculative nonsense. Now I’m always happy to look at photos of Meghan although unfortunately they’re marred by including a ginger bearded bugger in the
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Last Saturday’s Dominion Post front-page story was about the local red-hot housing market. Lower Hutt’s biggest residential real estate firm’s boss, John Ross, was quoted saying he’d never seen a market with so much demand pressure. To various extents this is
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com I read a rich variety of books. One I bowled through recently was now 65-year-old San Francisco poetess Kim Addonizio’s “Bukowski In A Sundress”. I’m not a Bukowski fan as this uniquely American genre always strikes me as trying too hard to say
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Kate Walsh is an American actress currently trapped in Perth by the virus lockdown, and evidently happy to be there. She told the Australian Financial Review of the “massive opportunity” to build Perth and Freemantle into film studios, noting the two cities largely missed out
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The tragic letter below appeared in the Herald last week and has been a source of much amusing conjecture in my office and with visitors. First however; Doetie and Keizer are Dutch names while Riverton, lying half an hour or so on the coast 40
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com When hitherto unnoticed MP Andrew Falloon announced his resignation in an absurd babble about “grief” over suicides, my antennae told me this was a cover-up. The subsequent revelations thus came as no surprise although not in their specifics. Sex is a powerful drive and at
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com A fortnight back I wrote about an extraordinary decision by newly appointed Auckland District Court judge Clare Bennett. That was her discharge WITHOUT PENALTY of a bloke who via a hidden camera, took almost 40,000 photos and videos of men and women in various
