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Rus (pronounced as in the tail end of Chateau Petrus) or Nico (as in Nicolaas). Last 5 places you might have seen me: St Francis Bay, Warkworth, Takapuna, Devonport, Marlborough
Can one become a national bird if there are still outstanding traffic warrants for you?

mashable.com/video/kea-bi...
Cheeky rare bird moves traffic cones around, tricking dumb humans
Meet the most adorable, and sadly endangered, tricksters around.
mashable.com
November 15, 2024 at 8:43 PM
Apologies ... deleted my Linked-In. But kept a resumé if any billionaire can afford my fees
November 15, 2024 at 8:26 PM
Not sure if I remember correctly, was started by a young dude from California and his sisters ...
September 30, 2024 at 6:29 AM
Beaut town ... also some of the best sushi around (been a few years since I was last there though) ...
September 30, 2024 at 6:25 AM
Nice specimen of bird.
(Cygnus olor)
September 29, 2024 at 9:22 PM
They're not a government. They're simply energy industry shills!
September 15, 2024 at 7:28 AM
About the only thing the crowalition is good for is to serve as references for Marvel Universe storyboard artists to create new villain triumvirate characterisations for a new "Annals of Doom" movie ...
November 26, 2023 at 5:49 AM
If you start one late you get to eat the choccies from the missed days …
November 19, 2023 at 2:15 PM
Nobody suggested Married at Second Sight?
November 19, 2023 at 2:02 PM
I’d be happy if Winston takes his Crown Limo card off him!
November 19, 2023 at 2:00 PM
You have lots of faith (for a ghost!)
I pray the rocket works so he can clear off this planet sooner!
November 19, 2023 at 1:46 PM
It’s a global problem … and much worse, many media firms now have large minimum-wage cut & paste teams repurposing free & stolen material. Pressure must go on the mega internet brands (who now get the advertising revenue) to create new ways to foster reliable even-handed journalism in some form
October 5, 2023 at 10:11 PM
Do a search for Nico on Bandcamp … I did and a surprise catalogue of her “missing” years popped up …
October 5, 2023 at 12:32 AM
Interesting to note 2 separate accounts describe the road as “not icy (or even wet)” and “when Gallimard's powerful … car left the icy road and ploughed into a tree”.

Did someone skimp in their homework?

More:

www.theguardian.com/books/2019/d...

www.hurstpublishers.com/book/the-dea...
October 4, 2023 at 11:23 PM
Here’s the link to the top article again … seems to have fallen off the page

www.utpjournals.press/doi/pdf/10.3...
October 4, 2023 at 9:31 PM
Also no idea before now of the controversies that swirled about at the time on the cause of the deadly accident on a straight strip of road …

www.britannica.com/story/how-di...

Seems there are the makings of an interesting movie script in all of this ..

www.theguardian.com/books/2011/a...
October 4, 2023 at 9:18 PM
These two references might explain some of his thinking at the time …

I had no idea before now that the manuscript of his autobiographical novel “First Man” was only discovered in a valise in the wreck of the car in which he died at age 46 in January 1960 …

www.utpjournals.press/doi/pdf/10.3...
October 4, 2023 at 9:11 PM
Also no idea of the controversies that swirled around about the cause of the accident on a straight road with no ice at the time …

www.britannica.com/story/how-di...

Might have the makings of a hard-hitting film script in all of this …

www.theguardian.com/books/2011/a...
October 4, 2023 at 9:04 PM
Thanks to modern technology for illuminating the location & the route he describes …

maps.app.goo.gl/dUiqAAvSrcoA...

The landscape must have changed quite a bit since … no doubt more vineyards along the route to Villa Valmarana back then …

maps.app.goo.gl/fggeDCpYxcEx...
October 4, 2023 at 8:24 PM
I’m surprised no-one has responded to the post above. This was the atheist (note: not anti-theist!) catch-cry of my youth, Camus explaining the serious business of finding your God & paradise in this life, rather than denigrating it for some notion of an afterlife …

culturico.com/2020/01/21/c...
October 4, 2023 at 7:58 PM
Mate … they might not even make it! Just tick & hope for the best! The entire moto has been taken in by the media grift! I wasn’t polled? Were you polled? I think 2017 & 2020 were the same! Media called it blue till the final minute, and it was a red landslide!
October 4, 2023 at 5:45 AM
In Art Galleries

vimeo.com/456574288

Living in paradise

vimeo.com/228120089

Scribbles

vimeo.com/228118100

The Night Bus

vimeo.com/228115710

My Cheltenham

vimeo.com/228113673
October 3, 2023 at 10:47 AM