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When are you coming to Welly??'Cobbers of Wakefield' want to know?
08/06/2026

When are you coming to Welly??

'Cobbers of Wakefield' want to know?

I am not sure if DNA is scientific evidence, however I had forgotten that each parent contributes half each.'My mother b...
06/06/2026

I am not sure if DNA is scientific evidence, however I had forgotten that each parent contributes half each.

'My mother brought me up to look like butter wouldn't melt in my mouth. My Dad brought me up to make sure it did!'

I have worked/lived throughout New Zealand; I may not have kept the best company at times, however, generally they came ...
05/06/2026

I have worked/lived throughout New Zealand; I may not have kept the best company at times, however, generally they came through at important times. Auckland, Northland, Far North, Hokianga, Dargaville, Matakohe, Langs Beach, Mangawai, Badleys Beach, North Shore, Whangaparoa, Symonds Street, Rotorua, Horotu, Christchurch, Nelson, Wellington, Waiheke Island, and I get fairly aware quickly as to who is a good tradesman/person or not.
One guy on site, who after a few generic conversations, I gently requested whether he was a qualified chippie,
'No, I worked as a hammer hand whilst I was training in pottery in Dome Valley.'
Okay, thanks for your honesty. ( Later, not his responsibility, I found out that that particular house had to have a ranch slider removed to get a double bed into the master bedroom).
Happy Days.....

Dad scored the Keith Hay Homes contract in Whangarei early into his Northland tenure, and these guys were the first to take up horizontal fixing, as it fitted into their transportable protocols.
Any squash player worth their salt knows the backhand stroke is strongest, and we would stop horizontal fixing with that backhand technique. Vertical fixing, we would start in a room at the door, working left to right, after the ceiling.... horizontal fixing, we worked right to left from the door, and in K.H.H. there were no ceilings for us.
(Gordon Ball and Brian Atkinson leaving flawless fixing for us)
I mention this, as even though Ronnie retired @79, he could still put in a reasonable half day on sight because of the plasterboard being horizontally fixed - his overhead work was a bit stilted due to his shoulders, however, noone minds covering for an absolute legend!
Unfortunately, when you have been taught by one of the best, your experiences are colored with the knowledge of people trying to make excuses for poor performances, lack of credibility, passing off abject mistakes for acceptable chaos???

Cindy???

I listen to a variety of YT contributors, mostly on their banners, some I have been watching for a while, so their comme...
03/06/2026

I listen to a variety of YT contributors, mostly on their banners, some I have been watching for a while, so their commentary is predicated.

My ex-boss in Wellington was quite open in a private conversation in his work vehicle (2012-2014), saying,
"He had always been a staunch Labour voter, yet once his business operated in abundance, had amassed assets, his pragmatist vote went to National.

The insidious notion filtering through communities commonly is about Mary the Pr******te, written by the Church, the misnomer being courtesan in nature. It implies that Mary Magdelene was in possession of carnal knowledge, and if she was indeed John the Baptist's ex-wife, then there is a truth to that notion.

What the Church is not prepared to address is that women having comprehensive knowledge about s*x and s*xuality is not a sin. The exploration of their emotions and physiology is the action of Pro-Choice, or God's gift of freewill......

My Dad has often spoken of 'theory' and the Father, per se, is personification of a theory!
It is 2026, Pro-Choice, or freewill, is a valid tenet of any community.
Personally, I would treble the tithing certificate considerations, and due to Treaty aspects, include Maraes; Unbuilding the traditional Church is about protecting and preserving the Fruits of the Spirit in the demolition process.........

I have always considered myself a pragmatist - I make walls flat for paint.Seems simple enough?When I started, quite a f...
02/06/2026

I have always considered myself a pragmatist - I make walls flat for paint.
Seems simple enough?

When I started, quite a few moons ago, we were using a product called 4F - F F F F on the 40kg bag.

We were contracted to work on Bishop Selwyn, Paihia, for Grant Developments, and I was half way through my 19th year, training hard for a N.W.P. trip to Singapore....
We were carrying those 40kg bags a 100m from the road, trudging up 6 flights of steps, and I was resting at the bottom of a second journey, when Ronnie came down,
"What the **** are you doing, you know we're on contract! And next time bring two bags up, you lazy little ****!"

(This is going to be my Eulogy speech)

31/05/2026

Still wanna play?

I think ACC is up for a 290m NZD payout....ACC was set up by 'Elders' for a less litigous society???

Surely a one letter mistake, by a public servant, putting one of N.Z.'s vulnerable teenagers at personal risk is worth something?

What concerns me about 'the Government's Housing Policy', is that some people will reflect that they sounded like 'Gover...
31/05/2026

What concerns me about 'the Government's Housing Policy', is that some people will reflect that they sounded like 'Government's Bonds', whereas they are a private sector initiative....controlled?, financed, ...maintained?...by private sector 'Mum and dad' investors.....

Let's run through 'leaky house syndrome'.

In a nutshell, buildings were being built to Mediterranean specs - no Eves....

You can ask anyone on Tutukaka Coast.....if your whare is not blessed by Eves.....

Anyway, I digress for comedic effect (******* clown?)....our rainfall is temperate, I think, way too heavy for unprotected walls/windows/doorways - apertures that assist ingress/egress....

So developers, to cut corners were not installing 'adequate materials' (at best) to best practice.....a couple of cowboys putting steel interior external corners on an architecturally designed home at Langs Beach.....like I said, he was my Dad's best Butler that guy.....

No Eves meant rainfall was able to pe*****te exterior linings that needed extra assistance to perform. This comes in installing slightly heavier framing timber ( I watched Wayne Furze frame the front wall of my parents build in Ritchie Rd with 6 inch(150mm) timber framing, with a specially made galvanized steel intellect for Frank Newman's brother, Goeff Nuellar, to lay bricks above the window to the roofline.) so that there is stability within the building to cope with exterior pressures/climate.

What about framing systems? Top plates for fixing gibboard to specific bracing patterns?? Pole houses that are five metres high at the front, facing onto the road???

This is one of those tools that is better left unsaid, and as you can see, this one didn't even make it out of the packe...
26/05/2026

This is one of those tools that is better left unsaid, and as you can see, this one didn't even make it out of the packet.

I was stripping wallpaper as a 6 year old, alongside my Aunty Jo Pidgeon, in my younger brother and sisters' room( Erin and Stuart), Terrace.

Every renovation job has the query,
"Is there wallpaper to be stripped?"
"Would you like us/me to strip it....or would you like to do it yourself??"

The best way to strip wallpaper is with hot, soapy water - put lots of ground sheet next to the wall, to soak up the excess water, and score the wallpaper so the hot, soapy water gets through to the paste; and hopefully the walls have been 'sized' before installation/application.

The 'paper tiger' has three spiked wheels; you run it round and round in circles on the area to be stripped, then soak it with hot, soapy water.....

I last did some for a Bridge friend up North, and always hoped to score a couple of hours grace out of the deal. 😉😉😉😉

Bonjour mon ami - (multiplied)

My homework would suggest that the numbers don't add up - it's stoner maths!!!
25/05/2026

My homework would suggest that the numbers don't add up - it's stoner maths!!!

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