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Mar 07
Mar 07
place to stand
Marketing calls it the city of sails, but this city is about soil. You can smell it when you arrive, crumbling and moist, even above the steam rising from the asphalt.
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Mar 07
Mar 07
New best thing
The title of ‘best thing’ can be an ephemeral one. I can recall bestowing this title upon such random (and frankly useless) objects such as a fab faux 70s plastic beaded curtain that I bought from iko iko on k rd about 10 years ago (looked great with my orange op-shop curtains), and a netball-sized mirror ball purchased from the Thursday markets at Auckland University (anyone remember those awful Hannibal Lecter tees with the ‘tastes like chicken’ slogan?).
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Feb 07
Feb 07
Five go mad at the ‘G’
As sporting arenas go, the Melbourne Cricket Ground must rank as one of the most imposing. Three- and four- tiered stands sweep around the massive emerald outfield. The Great Southern Stand alone holds 50,000 people, slightly over half of the total capacity. Bay 13 is perhaps the most notorious seating area in world cricket, a springboard for alcohol-fuelled barracking of a most Australian order. And it’s 150-year history has witnessed some of the biggest cricketing moments – dozens of Boxing Day tests, the underarm in 1981, Muralitharan no-balled by Hair in 1995, Warne’s 1994 Ashes hat-trick and Hadlee’s desperate attempt to remove the final Australian pair in 1987.
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Feb 07
Feb 07
On Yer Bike
Last year cycle imports to New Zealand outstripped car imports. To do my bit for the statistics I went out and purchased a bike. This was something of a step since my last bike was a 1950s BSA that I bought off a guy from Raglan when I was at Uni. Arriving home with my shiny new Marin commuter bike I felt a sense of excitement. Not only would I be doing something for the environment, but I may actually lose the Christmas cheer I have been carrying around with me for the past month or so.