…gold at last!
What a great day for New Zealand at the Olympics! Five medals in one day. Valerie Vili joined the Evers-Swindell twins in winning gold as New Zealand won five medals in a day for the first time, to go to 14th on the medal table. Cyclist Hayden Roulston won silver at the velodrome while bronze medals went to the sick sculler Mahe Drysdale and pair George Bridgewater and Nathan Twaddle. These athletes have done New Zealand proud.
It’s been a busy week on the political front with trips to Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch (twice), Matamata, Hamilton and Rotorua. It included public meetings/conferences and eleven speeches. A highlight was handing a big cheque to the Returned Services Association. This organisation does great work for our returned service people and needs all the support it can get. It was also interesting to ride a sulky around a race track.
And when there’s been a spare moment, I’ve tried to add new posts to this blog. It hasn’t been possible to keep up with all the comments at this point but your views are being noted. If you have a valid point and it has missed being posted please update it and send it again.
Being new to this blogging business does not mean this site is intended to be a sewage outlet for all the anonymous whingers and malcontents that don’t have a life outside a computer screen. My advice is for you to get some hobbies and eat more protein!
Next week there will be a recipe for you to try like fish soup, always a firm favourite of mine. Fish is my main source of protein and I try to keep the carbs to a minimum.
August 18th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
If only we could afford the Fish to put into the Fish soup! You and Labour have made that impossible for most kiwi households.
Winston says “All you need is a fishing line and a few hooks.”
August 18th, 2008 at 8:09 pm
G, Ask Lockwood Smith, he says he has some dead fish!
August 18th, 2008 at 8:48 pm
G, haven’t you heard about the most effective form of charity being not just to provide a meal, but to help those in need to become more self-sufficient in growing or catching their own meals.
Here, where we are not on the brink of starvation but want to improve our lot all the same, the practical help in a sustainable way is a higher savings rate of seed grain for a bigger crop of consumption potential.
So, while we should help those in need, we maust not forget to build in a savings and investment commitment with it.
August 20th, 2008 at 10:13 am
A balance approach.
I would not want to try Locksmith’s dead fish. They may have been dead for quite sometime.
September 7th, 2008 at 7:15 pm
Talking about Gold - http://www.winstonpeter.com and a snapshot of the gallery was featured in the September issue of the New Zealand Management magazine on page 32. Congratulations. Potency on the web is one of the good things about allowing comments and interaction between visitors - it allows for open debate. Never the less, it’s always best to be safe.