10 random things

i read in the paper today and what i have to say about them.

I buy the paper every Saturday, usually late afternoon and it usually remains unread, folded in perfect presicion in some corner of the house. This morning I had to get to dairy to buy breakfast bread and picked up a paper at the same time. I got to read while eating breakfast and drinking my mouth puckeringly strong coffee. I have to admit I have yet to finish it. However, I have found enough interesting/annoying or cool things within the first 25 pages and here they are...

1. Nude butchery on the front cover...very excellent. Nothing like a young man's naked butt to enjoy over your yoghurt and apple to start the weekend in great style

2. Closing a couple of bike paths in Hagley Park for 11 days in March for the Ellerslie Flower Show. OH FOR GOD SAKE!!! Find something important to moan about you narrow minded cycle Nazis. So, you have to divert your course and travel an extra 170m for a few days? Get over it. Why not spend your spare time trying to get alchopops put in plastic bottles so us commuter cyclists don't have to ride eyes down to dodge the masses of broken glass bottles every Monday morning?

3. 'Zones of obsession' - couldn't get through this large article on the middle class mad dash to the 'right suburbs' so their children can go to the high decile schools in the hope they are sheltered from the poor people and other terrible things that can happen out here IN THE REAL WORLD. Say no more.

4.' Talking daffodils'... interesting story about a couple and their daffodil farm made a bit more interesting as the woman in the story used to work at the library.

5. Still on gardening. A great quote...'If your garden doesn't look great this month when nature does most of the work for you, then it's possibly a lost cause' Jude Gillies

6. Rotten baby formular in China...breast is best.

7. 19 year old bride and bridal party catching the number 5 bus to her wedding. What is odder than being the only person ever to do this in Christchurch, is the fact that there are 19 year olds getting married. Can't imagine why you would do that. Oh well, good luck.

8. Sarah Palin - US presidential trump card. Another indication that the US is a very strange country...check out the names of her children and grandchild....Bristol, Willow, Piper and Trig....painting a picture? She is going to get a 73 year old war monger into the Whitehouse and then disappear off the face of the earth.

9. World banking and financial crisis. Shit! Keep your head down, stop putting stuff on the credit card and get paying off the mortgage. Not envying anyone having to watch this crisis unfold for other than interest and I don't mean interest of the banking kind.

10. From the 'Your Weekend' magazine...a range of really interesting articles of the weekend kind. I am going to make one of the recipes for our beach lunch tomorrow.