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Much has happened since my blog “Improbable Fiction”. First, the ratepayer meeting held in Mangawhai on Sunday the 25th. Despite a call by the CE, Jack McKerchar, for Council NOT to attend the Mayor and I attended. There is a brief report in the Kaipara Lifestyler here. I am waiting for a transcript of that meeting. Before commenting in depth, the Mayor's comments were so curious, that I decid...
Thank you for your many emails and phone calls. The Council meeting is on Wednesday. I will be posting again later in the week - no Shakespeare this time.
In my last blog I set out the work I was doing to understand the issues for KDC on its asset values. I was doing that work because none of the briefings Council was receiving, covered our obligations. Yet every day in the newspapers there were further judgments of the Courts reminding us that we had to understand the figures for ourselves. Needless to say, my efforts were not welcomed. The events ...
In my new passion for the great Bard and seeking inspiration, admittedly assisted by Google, I have drawn on Measure for Measure. In this play Shakespeare deals with power and corruption and the need for constancy for the truth to surface. The plot centres around the Duke Vincentio. The Duke has some unpopular tasks that need doing so, in order to remain popular himself, drags in the devious An...
Another workshop at Dargaville. Yes, THE super-secret workshop on the Proposed District Plan. Readers of this blog will know that much expense and great effort was gone to create the LARSEN Gag v2 – the Confidentiality Deed (for background click here) especially for this event. As Act 4 Scene 1 opened, the Proposed District Plan Workshop, the issue of the LARSEN Gag v2 – the Confidentia...
Continuing my Shakespeare theme, which I admit was a struggle at school, the line in King Henry IV. Part II, Act I, Sc. II “I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion." has never seemed more understandable and powerful. On the eaten to death with rust, I have continued seeking the truth, as promised, on Ecocare. The more I question, the...
In 1597 Shakespeare famously wrote in Act 4 Scene II in King Henry VI "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers". Recent debates in the Council chamber have time-warped back to that era. It appears that dealing with bloggers, emailers and other such pesky types results in defence of the culture. As Shakespeare also noted in the same play "Small things make base men proud". And so the...