(UPDATE TO THIS POST: I FOUND THE CAR! SEE THE END OF THIS POST FOR DETAILS) This morning, my wife called me to ask me if I’ve moved her car. Questions like this spark immediate concern! Yes, my wife’s car was stolen last night from right outside our house. Ok it was only a 1992 [...]
Think of the New Zealand armed forces and hopefully you think “peace-keeping”. In the absence of no one hating New Zealand enough to attack us, our forces have been involved with various humanitarian and peace support operations from Tonga to Afghanistan. To do this on an international stage, I believe it is imperative that our [...]
Following on from our last post, here’s a fantastic video made for the Greun Transfer TV show in Australia.
On this show, ad agencies are tasked with creating an advert for something you couldn’t advertise. In this case, it was invading New Zealand.
I know this video has been around for a while, but this website hasn’t! So shuddup.
John Key, Prime Minister of New Zealand, appeared on the Letterman Show and listed the top ten reasons to visit New Zealand …
Christchurch is rocking to the sound of an Irish jig right now. These four Irish dancers are raising funds to travel to the 2010 World Irish Dancing championships in Glasgow. Check out the video below.
Christchurch Mayor, Bob Parker, is right now cruising around the streets of Christchurch on the top of a horse-drawn tram. Beats the Pope-mobile any day.
Hotel So have a new company car for their bar staff.
Ok not really but while I was taking photos of the Christchurch Sky Lens, my cousin, Doug, called me and said “Meet you outside your office. Grab a camera.” Then rocked up in this great motor!
Doug is currently tasked with driving this mean machine around Christchurch while passing out flyers for Hotel So saying “Why taxi when you can stay at Hotel SO”.
[Christchurch Hotel So Car Promo] The mini road trip seems to be working well so far. While I stood with him, at least 8 people approached and asked what the story was.
This is reflective of a lot of marketing today. Businesses need to stir up some interest and give people a reason to make contact. We can pick and choose what interests us and block out anything that doesn’t.
In this case, instead of walking up to someone and forcing a flyer into their hands, people are actively stopping Doug in the street and even taking flyers directly from his wee glove box.
Have fun, Doug. Don’t go using your cellphone while you’re driving that thing.
How’s this for a ‘rags to riches’ story? The UK Herald reports that two homeless brothers have been living in a cave on the outskirts of Budapest, occasionally visited by some charity workers, and have now found out they are to inherit a US$7 billion family fortune.
“If this all works out it will certainly make up for the life we have had until now — all we really had was each other — no women would look at us living in a cave,”
Apparently a lawyer had contacted the charity and asked them to find these brothers as they were to inherit a lot of money.
Come to think of it, I have about 20 e-mails in my junk folder that mention long lost relatives trying to off-load their fortunes and wealthy South African business men looking for someone to take all their money for no apparent reason. Maybe I should start replying to a few of these.
Article at www.redarmband.com
Sir Edmund Hillary
Lord of the Rings
Beautiful Mountains
Sheep
… and now eggs.
New Zealand is known for a few things and now it has an extra notch to its belt.
This morning, crowds gathered in the rain at Christchurch’s Cathedral Square in New Zealand to watch the official weigh-in of what is now the World’s Largest Scrambled Egg at 1.2 tonnes. That or they just came for the free breakfast. Article at www.redarmband.com
These guys just walked past my office, heading along the freshly laid tram track of Christchurch’s Cashell mall.
The rally was organised by New Zealand’s Public Sector Union and supported by the Green Party. Sue Kedgley, Green Party MP, said in a speech to the rally:
The disability support workers, who are on strike today; the hospital orderlies, cleaners and kitchen staff, also on strike today, who earn as little as $14.62 cents an hour; Parliamentary services workers, clerical workers, school support staff, teacher aides and librarians, who are also taking protest action today and marching up Queen street tomorrow. Many support workers are working with the most vulnerable children in our schools, doing God’s work, yet they earn as little as $12.94 cents an hour -barely above the minimum wage. It is obscene.
Now I hate politics with a passion but thought that this particular subject was worth mentioning. Sue’s after raising the minimum wage from $12.50 an hour to $15 and that sounds fine to me. Good to luck to you all. Article, photos and video at www.redarmband.com
