Went into town yesterday (Picton) to drop my Woofa's off and cast my vote, (go the Greens), not the best forecast for a trip to town, a storm warning in force, the yacht got knocked down at the mouth of the inlet and I suspect the woofa's would have been checking the undies before they boarded their bus, this leads nicely onto my next subject. I don't go to town much, people everywhere you know, but there's a new show in town, when I first saw this contraption thoughts of 'Doctor Who' sprang to mind and when I got closer I heard a voice from inside, "some new amusement ride" I thought, well I was half right it turns out this is the new Electro Lu.  There was a guy waiting out-side, I said, "we could be waiting a while" he said crossing his legs, "I hope not", the door opened, someone came out looking a bit flustered, the man entered what I thought was the women's side (there are two doors) but on closer inspection it turns out...

My old mate Pork-chop asked me out for a hunt this morning, "sure," I said, great chance to get my pups some more experience, "meet you at the punga cove saddle at 5.45am then," he said. The alarm went off 4am, I must be mad I thought, can't be, if I was mad I wouldn't be thinking I must be mad would I, kettle on and a few stretches for my 39 year old body, quick breakfast and out to let the dogs off, they where even looking at me like I had put the clock back 2 hours at daylight saving, "come on you lazy mongrels we are going to meet uncle Pork-chop". Getting around out the sounds is a little different than the city, no public transport, infact no roads in the inlet. I pushed the dingy out with the dogs wiping the sleep out of there eyes, 25 minates later I was across the inlet at punga cove with the dingy on shore, up the hill on foot to the saddle where porkchop picked me up, we head for one of his old hunting spots. We pile on t...

I have a couple of German Woofa's here at the moment and  Daniel&Oliver had been working very hard for he last four days, day off tomorrow I said, I will take you pig hunting and fishing, plus I needed someone to carry the pork, as my back is a little shagged at the moment. Raining through the night and thinking maybe we should just go fishing, morning came with light drizzle so thought we had better give it a go, plus the dogs hadn't had a run for a few days, up the hill we went 90 mins later we where almost at the ridge when we came across some fresh pig sign, I let Ming go then Lu, barking, then a stampede of pigs running past us, squealing down the hill, off I go with the Woofa's close behind, the dogs holding one very fat 60+ pound sow for the freezer, hey and we even managed to catch a few fish in the afternoon. Only Fools and horses work!

I came across this today and being election year just had to cut/paste it: Hat tip BLiT Since coming to power, National Ltd™: has been caught out repeatedly lying in the run up to and during the election campaign about its real intentions in relation to the environment celebrated the opening of the foreign-owned Pike River Coal Ltd mine on DOC land adjacent to the Paparoa National Park from which 1 megatonne of coal will be extracted per year for the next 20 years – Pike River Coal Ltd has announced that it has found additional coal in the national park removed a proposed efficiency standard (MEPS) on incandescent lightbulbs reversed a moratorium on building new gas/oil/coal power stations removed the bio fuel subsidy scrapped the scheme that would have penalised imported vehicles producing high emissions removed regulations for water efficient new housing renewed leases on sensitive high country farms which were meant to return to DOC reversed restrictions on the freeholding of vas...

Born to rule.  I have resently had the displeasure of sitting in front of the idiot box (TV) with friends watching the News. There isn't a night goes by when I haven't had to endure something about the newly wed Royals, I forget there names , the balding one with the bulimic stick insect wife, you know the two. Calling me an anti Royalist would be putting it mildly, as I have said before, I wouldn't let either of these two smell my shit for free. On a couple of occasions recently, I have had to speck up while enduring a news items on these two parasites, basically saying 'what the hell are we wasting electricity watching these two for', while laughing at their antics, and to my surprise I find woman jumping to there defense. These two do nothing useful, except sell the "Tories" and the "Rights" happy ever after myth. Key has been falling over these two in his greenstone suit, he knows that a lot of women will suffer a bit longer waiting for...

Well what a morning up at 5.30 and took the little dingy up to the end of the inlet. I hadn't been up there hunting for a couple of weeks, walking past bevs then was going to cross the swing bridge, then planed to go up that side of the creek so I didn't get my feet wet, soft I know. Anyway turned the corner to walk down to the swing bridge, it was still half dark, looking in the paddock and started thinking that looks like a pig, "No I thought" it has to be a calf, No it's a bloody pig, Ming was straining at her lead, shit the bloody pig starts walking towards me, what the fuck bev must have a new pet pig, the pig just keep walking towards me, should I shoot it? No! I won't be popular shooting Bevs pet pig, so off I go at a jog up to Bev's her dogs start nutting off and she comes out, 'Bev do you have a pet pig? No! She said, well there's one in the paddock with the cows. Pigs Fucken everywhere she said, shot the bloody thing. So off I go, her d...

I just recived this from the New Zealand Zeitgeist movement and thought I should post it. Kia ora Friends  On May 1, 2011 Pres. Barack Obama appeared on national television with the spontaneous announcement that Osama bin Laden, the purported organizer of the tragic events of September 11th 2001, was killed by military forces in Pakistan.  Within moments, a media blitz ran across virtually all television networks in what could only be described as a grotesque celebratory display, reflective of a level of emotional immaturity that borders on cultural psychosis. Depictions of people running through the streets of New York and Washington chanting jingoistic American slogans, waving their flags like the members of some cult, praising the death of another human being, reveals yet another layer of this sickness we call modern society.  It is not the scope of this response to address the political usage of such an event or to illuminate the staged orchestration of how public ...

Yes Auckland's new nick name. I heard a piece on the radio this morning about the amount of Cow Shit that flows into Auckland water supply each day and it suddenly dawned on me maybe thats way they call them Jaffa's, because there going brown on the inside , then someone said no it's because they are generally full of it.

The busy people. You know the ones, sorry too busy to talk, (not that I give a F... or want to talk) but too busy to talk? how do these people communicate sign language , have you ever tried it, probably not as they are to busy aren't they, busy busy busy busy they make me want to throw up these busy people. It has crossed my mind that if they just slowed down for a second they might end up in a straight jacket and they know it don't they, if they just keep busy then they can put off having to deal with whatever they are too busy to deal with, now don't get me wrong I like these people, they don't want to talk to me, great, thats just fine after meeting thousands of them I can't recommend any of them to you, there all to busy anyway.

Funny how people say "Rod, you would have been a great dad" or "You are great with kids". This is normally said by one's mother who, like all mothers (!), she thinks the sun shines out your ass and would like nothing better than to see you slaving 24 hours a day to feed and house some of your devil's spawn. The evil mothers - they are responsible for most of the world's problems believe me. My mother is great and I love her. Yes I said it, I love my mother. Not that I have any idea what love means. Luckily my mother has a sense of humor (and after having four children who wouldn't have a facken sense of something. like time to get on the pill for Christ's sake). The way I see things the mother's selfish genes drive the whole show, and I mean the whole show. I have been called selfish for not wanting to have children. This is completely ass backwards logic in my mind. I know it is our selfish genes that drive us to reproduce and th...

Vacuum cleaners or Hoovers as the Americans call them, not that they are Americans at all they are United States Citizens and this week they are doing my head in Vacuum cleaners that is, I picked one up at a dump a few years ago on my trip around the north island $2 at the dump just out of KeriKeri, cheap I thought but the thing just wouldn't suck and in the end fell apart, just gave up the ghost, a bit like most of my relationships, some times I wonder if the Citizens aren't a lot like my old vacuum cleaners they tend to make a lot of noise and look great plus the man selling them promises a lot so you sort of think you won't have to work any more after you have one, lately I have been wondering if people think these machines come with a bag that never needs to be emptied, as people (mainly females around here) can't seem to work out that if the hoover stops sucking then shaking it and yelling has little or no affect at all 'It's not a child girls I say' ...

I resonantly had some friends staying for the weekend, yes I do have at-least two friends I usually rent them by the hour as it works out cheaper for everybody in the long run. Anyway the male of this pair swears he heard Kiwi's calling in the night while staying at the Lodge, now this male lets call him Pete well he didn't come down in the last shower in-fact he is so smart his wife goes to work while he stays home all day keeping house, now I here all you girls crying that's hard work staying home all day talking on the phone! well girls I call bullshit, so when Pete says he heard Kiwi's calling in the night I had to investigate. I was a bit skeptical him being a ozzy but a smart ozzy as I have mentioned.  Well inspector Burgoyne was called into investigate after having no luck finding which of the 'grass cutter nutters' sprayed the girls front garden, that case is still open but his confidence was a little shaken! Well I hadn't given the Kiwi's anoth...

I have been called a lot of names in my time and to be honest have always subscribed to the old saying "sticks and stones will break my bones but names will never hurt me" but lets start with Greenie this one I have been called a lot in the last few years and it makes me laugh that people have to find names for people especially people that make them feel uncomfortable or guilty, they usually use it as a put down as the Greenies are stupid people that don't subscribe to the let's eat all the cake now because if we don't the next one will, growth, growth, growth, mentality. In-fact I am a Realist not a Greenie once it dawned on me years ago that there is no "Man" in the sky pulling all the leavers and that humans have evolved like every thing else on this planet I began looking at the plant in a whole different light, we do have and are having a huge impact on the planet and anyone expecting God to come and save us in my opinion should be locked up in a p...