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...