Curmudgeoning Around New Zealand

Hi all. Those of you who have been paying attention will know that I am currently touring New Zealand for a year, this is why the blog has been receiving no updates. However, I thought I should give the perfunctory shout out now and then to let you all know I’ve not driven off of a cliff or been eaten by a sheep.

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Posted on: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 8:45 AM
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  1. Posted by: Oekedulleke on 10/6/2009 8:10 PM
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    Nice, have a good time :-)
  2. Posted by: SmogFish on 10/7/2009 7:11 AM
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    I live in Christchurch.
  3. Posted by: ArgusEyes on 10/16/2009 6:15 AM
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    "I live in Christchurch."

    Would you reccomend it as a place to live?
  4. Posted by: SmogFish on 10/23/2009 10:55 PM
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    Sure

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The umbrella in particular is remembered as the symbol of the nineteenth century’s disturbing obsession with individualism. In Bellamy’s utopia, umbrellas have been replaced with retractable canopies so that everyone is protected from the rain equally.
“In the nineteenth century,” explains a character, “when it rained, the people of Boston put up three hundred thousand umbrellas over as many heads, and in the twentieth century they put up one umbrella over all the heads.”