WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN

I've been a bit lazy recently which has been exacerbated by tiredness from staying up late to watch World Cup Rugby. As a consequence my rate of blogging has slipped and is in danger of being at a frequency level of those other bloggers who visit.  Several times a day I get an idea for a blog but unless I get on to it straight away I either forget or the 'need' disappears. I should, of course ,write it down as the idea pops up and do a blog later.

HAL ROACH - WRITE IT DOWN

I have plenty of notebooks as mentioned in The Cultured Curmudgeon's previous post so should be able to do it. Richard said years ago (in a now discontinued blog) that he jotted post ideas in his notebook when out and about. He must have filled up the pages though as his recent posting is about as scarce as Robert's.

Some things I remember that might have been posts are:

THERE WILL BE TEARS

Today I was listening to Minister of Immigration Iain Lees-Galloway on National Radio announcing changes to immigration and reopening the Parent Category visa programme. I can see this being a recipe for disaster and that in the future people will be moaning about the pressures on health, housing, employment, benefits and superannuation as a result.

It reminded me of a couple of other bits of legislation that have caused problems.

• Allowing Pit Bull dogs into the country (1980s I think) that has created problems. Even though this breed is no longer able to be imported, the 'junkyard dog' types that came in and interbred with The American Staffordshire Terrier and other aggressive dogs leaves us with a legacy of dangerous mutts owned by irresponsible owners.
• Assault-type rifles and freeing up of ownership rules in the firearms legislation. Also 1980s I think. At the time this was ridiculous but the powerful farmers' lobby group and a stupid National government opened the floodgates to thousands of dangerous and impractical (for hunting purposes) firearms that now are costing the country millions (billions?) to get rid of.

THE WHITE SPORT COAT AND PINK CARNATION SOCIETY - A HISTORY

This is a biggie and one that my limited memory might not do justice to. I would have suggested that Richard takes this on by sadly he's 'dropped the ball' when writing a history of Murray Roberts and Company with only one post so far. If Mike and Tony got off their arses and created blogs this project could get off the ground.

A LIFETIME IN WINE

There's been a bit of conflict locally as to who should write this - The Wine Guy or The Curmudgeon.
There is a lot of material to make up numerous posts but both of us 'can't be arsed' to do it.

BEHIND THE SCENES WITH A BAND

This was to be a series like This Is Spinal Tap loosely based on The Prowse Brothers band but I lack the musical experience, the behind the scenes photographs, the funny anecdotes and of course, recently I'm being nice to Richard so this hasn't got off the ground either.

WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH SOME PEOPLE?

This was to be about the name change to Victoria University of Wellington .

What the hell is wrong with some people?

The people in question are those who forever want to change the names of things. The 'thing' here is Victoria University of Wellington.
A small group of compulsive changers ignored the input from current and past attendees of Victoria University of Wellington and have pushed through the new name:

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That's just a small sample of what you've been missing. If I do get the notebooks out, jot down ideas and write the posts later then the blogging frequency from THE CURMUDGEONS INC.ⓒ will be back to what it once was.