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Hair’s an idea …
Sad news that the Leigh Harbour walkway will remain closed for the foreseeable future, though after recent community efforts in the town, we wouldn’t be surprised if local ingenuity found its way around the issue. Surely it’s not too far-fetched to imagine dedicated residents gathering up many kilos of hair clippings from Gabe Ransom and Frick’s charity Fire Brigade shave and knitting them into some kind of Snugleigh temporary mat-path?
Cross country seating
The appearance of a bench seat, positioned in a garden in central Wellsford, has some people puzzled – is it an ornament to be admired, a piece of public art with an existential meaning or are shoppers actually allowed to sit on it? If the latter, we suggest they dress as gnomes so as not to spoil the effect.
Waste blockage
We received a call from would-be Dome dump developer Waste Management NZ recently, as their reply to an email from us asking for comment had bounced back to them. Since we were apparently receiving emails from all other senders, we asked to see the ‘Delivery has failed’ email, in case it could shed any technical light on the issue. Well, it certainly could – down in the diagnostic information text, we found the following sentence: “Your message can’t be delivered because messages to LOCALMATTERS.CO.NZ are blocked by your organisation”. We naturally asked why everyone at Waste Management NZ would be blocked from sending us emails, but have yet to receive an answer. Presumably the answer is still bouncing around their internal email system and hasn’t been allowed out.
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