Moving along....

It's a drizzling day today, a good one to sit and write. Especially in  the Memphis Belle. I indulged again in a pain au chocolat this morning, something to spoil me. I am after all, swimming tonight at the Kilbirnie pool with Different Strokes!

Continued fallout from the Candlelight - people regretting they missed hearing Michael Kirby's speech, not knowing the event was on. The publicity certainly wasn't there for this year's event and it was the lack of Lesley's input that was obvious. Last year he did a lot of phone calls, well in advance, to ensure a good roll-up. Ah, well, it's over now, but they won't get MK here again. But perhaps in Auckland?

News today is interesting in showing the advanced thinking of the youth in an entrepreneurial fashion, proposing cheap home delivered alcohol. However I agree with the article which says is it not good to facilitate even more the binge-drinking culture which is rampant in this wealthy society, in particular with teenagers.

Cheap home delivery, free if $50 or more!

Rosemary McLeod is cringing as I was, at the ginger Prince's saturation press coverage.

Racism endemic in the country..local mayor wants to   have a separate Electoral Ward in New Plymouth  for Maori! What!!!

A world champion woman tennis player, never married,  also who never went to achieve her real worth at Wimbledon. This is how NZ fared in the days of impossible travel between the colonies and the Mother Country!

About time, some discussion between the Royals and Sinn Fein. What a waste of lives and awful bloodletting was that Irish war against their English oppressors. It is ever so slowly healing and will take another generation before it is fully done.

My favourite All Black, Richie, feet wrapped in bandages, smiling with best friend Carter; you couldn't get much closer than this eh?

BMW and Mercedes, the cars of choice in wealthy Wellington, owned by Chinese and Indian businessmen I observed.This is certainly where the 'new money' lies in New Zealand, in the Asian market and with Asian immigration. Perhaps not in the rural areas but certainly in the major cities like Auckland, Wellington and perhaps even Christchurch?

The times certainly are 'a changin' as Bob Dylan whined many decades ago now, and it is now the era of the Yellow Races to dominate world finance and also population. It had to come, as the white supremacist and imperialistic attitudes had eventually to die. We are not, after all, servant and master, we are all equal, and that is where the rest of the world has to be be heard and listened to. Billions of people just won't go away, although with the present proliferation of world disasters one can't predict anything, except that things will never be the same. I say, 'Bring it on', in a good way, of course!