tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-298416062024-03-14T03:52:11.457+13:00Noble WolfAussie by birth, Kiwi by ChoiceBrian Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10802352695666737088noreply@blogger.comBlogger596125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29841606.post-18749135549622435712018-05-27T16:48:00.000+12:002018-05-27T16:48:31.397+12:00Blessing of Same-sex marriage in Anglican church of Aotearoa/New ZealandAs my comments are disappearing on Thinking Anglicans, I am publishing them here.
10 May 2018
While grateful for those like Edward Prebble, I feel surrounded in my parish including my vicar by those in the middle group who seem to have no understanding of what a lifetime of victimisation by the church has achieved. I made a decision for Christ at about age 9. At age 74 I think it was the most Brian Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10802352695666737088noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29841606.post-91844388922511349702017-12-22T09:57:00.003+13:002017-12-22T09:57:58.400+13:00Proud Again to be a KiwiNew Zealand voted against the USA in the United Nations vote over the USA recognising Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. All wimpy Australia could do was abstain.
I am so proud to have become a Kiwi citizen.Brian Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10802352695666737088noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29841606.post-85313479982583104612016-12-29T17:40:00.000+13:002016-12-29T17:40:52.333+13:00AcceptanceI just have to post this. Beautiful
In 3 Minutes, Kodak Captures the Ache of Gay Love, Dread of Coming Out, Joy of Being Accepted
Brian Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10802352695666737088noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29841606.post-3780505287472300942016-07-14T09:05:00.004+12:002016-07-14T09:05:50.247+12:0014 JulyBrian Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10802352695666737088noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29841606.post-47394109163392007232016-07-06T17:47:00.001+12:002016-07-06T17:47:15.900+12:00Mum 10 YearsToday is 10 years since Mum died. In memory I refer back to my post at that time.
MumBrian Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10802352695666737088noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29841606.post-82890557971846963862016-06-15T10:25:00.000+12:002016-06-15T10:25:09.351+12:00Orlando
If this photo upsets you, GET OVER IT.
The event in Orlando a few days creates many feelings. One is my anger at the gun lobby. I hesitate to put forward Australia's gun laws as being perfect. It only takes one nutter and one firearm to create a massacre but the rifle used in Orlando has been banned in Australia since the Port Arthur Massacre and while still allowed in NZ, the chamber Brian Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10802352695666737088noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29841606.post-80408848076005283662016-05-19T17:32:00.000+12:002016-05-19T17:32:06.895+12:00Remaining an Anglican in Aotearoa/New Zealand?I am travelling in Europe. Today I am in Prague. I find it difficult to find time to blog about my travel experiences. Perhaps I will post a compilation of my messages and photos sent to friends after I have returned home.
I have found it difficult to blog on church matters ever since the despicable meeting of Primates in January when the Episcopal church was so badly treated. Ever since then, Brian Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10802352695666737088noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29841606.post-66322646565188074982016-03-07T10:28:00.000+13:002016-03-07T10:28:51.744+13:00Ignorant Prejudice even in Dunedin
There have been articles in our local paper about increasing acceptance of different sexualities in our local schools even Catholic schools. However it has brought at least one neanderthal out of the woodwork.I was too busy becoming a citizen last Wednesday to read our local paper but have discovered an opinion piece written by a man who describes himself as a retired teacher and I am very gladBrian Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10802352695666737088noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29841606.post-65451507958516194522016-03-06T08:12:00.000+13:002016-03-06T08:12:26.888+13:00The Journey is Complete
Last Wednesday, March 2nd, I joined about 70 others at the Dunedin Town Hall and became a New Zealand (Aotearoa) citizen.
I find I first mentioned moving to New Zealand on this blog in 2006 shortly after my mother died.
The first major comment was just after my first visit to Dunedin in November that year.
However it had been in my mind for many years and I first visited and fell in love with Brian Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10802352695666737088noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29841606.post-76771757435650320602016-02-28T12:15:00.000+13:002016-02-29T11:33:09.420+13:00Apology to 78ersIn August 1978, I attended the National Homosexual Conference at Paddington Town Hall in Sydney. It ran from Friday to Sunday. My diary shows that on the Saturday we formed the Gay Teachers and Students Society but I went home afterwards. I am not sure why I did not go to the city march that followed. In those days homosexual activities were still illegal (did not change in NSW until Brian Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10802352695666737088noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29841606.post-21693193881178468262016-02-06T13:14:00.000+13:002016-02-06T13:14:11.348+13:00Vale Rod West
I have learnt this week of the death of Roderick West. His funeral was on Friday and it is one of those events I would have made every effort to attend, if I had not moved so far away.
His obituary is in the Sydney Morning Herald.
Rod arrived at Fort Street in 1957 as a teacher in this 3rd year of teaching. I arrived at the same time as a First year (now called Year 7) Brian Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10802352695666737088noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29841606.post-45230349520074128572015-11-27T15:44:00.003+13:002015-11-27T15:44:59.997+13:00Senator Ian MacDonald and ANZACQueensland Senator Ian MacDonald has been quoted as saying.
"If Kiwis want a better deal on controversial deportation laws and
access to social welfare, New Zealand should become Australia's seventh
and eighth states."
Senator Ian
Macdonald also disputed the need for an easier path to Australian
citizenship for Kiwis, saying he believed it was "not a terribly onerous
thing to do".
I have Brian Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10802352695666737088noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29841606.post-24000346062357067182015-11-21T11:33:00.000+13:002015-11-21T11:33:15.014+13:00Dunedin GigatownBrian Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10802352695666737088noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29841606.post-83724368798752610852015-09-27T13:45:00.002+13:002015-10-01T19:18:55.413+13:00New Zealand FlagThis is descending into farce. Let us hope it results in no change at all, however it is still a waste of Government funds.
For overseas people - the current flag.
The original Four contenders
The latest addition known as the Red Peaks Flag which has been added to the list due to the Green party support of the National Party.
My email to Metiria Turei MP, Co-Leader of the Brian Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10802352695666737088noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29841606.post-64083691338989895652015-06-19T08:23:00.003+12:002015-06-19T08:23:52.478+12:00ViennaVienna has been warm, apparently unseasonably, with most days reaching 30’C.As I mentioned in my previous post, I really enjoyed the light operetta, Grafin (Countess) Maritza on Wednesday. I went to both Siegfried and Gotterdammerung (Twilight of the Gods) by Wagner and so fulfilled a dream of seeing all of the Ring Cycle in the Theatre. They are not for everyone and I would not Brian Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10802352695666737088noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29841606.post-46424267605386246112015-06-04T23:27:00.001+12:002015-06-04T23:27:29.046+12:00SalzkammergutThe weather has certainly improved for me, thanks for your good wishes. Sorry if I sent the bad weather to Dunedin.As you can see from the photos it gradually got better during my 5 days in the Salzkammergut region of Upper Austria. It is now quite hot in Vienna but I know I must not complain.The blue skies have made it hard to choose the photos to post.I fell in love with the town of Hallstatt Brian Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10802352695666737088noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29841606.post-6391362577758070892015-05-31T06:59:00.000+12:002015-05-31T06:59:31.884+12:00BavariaI think i must have offended the weather gods. Of the 12 days I spent in Germany, only 4 were sunny and 2 of those were travel days. Probably another 2 full and 2 half days were just overcast and threatening while the rest were fairly consistent rain.The Sunday I travelled by train from Strasbourg to Munich then onto Garmisch-Partenkirchen was sunny as was the next day when, seeing Brian Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10802352695666737088noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29841606.post-64928704462140740262015-05-20T05:33:00.001+12:002015-05-20T05:33:21.178+12:00France from bottom to topI last wrote after catching the train south about 350km from Paris to Poitiers. I stayed next to the station but climbed the hill to the interesting town mainly for dinner. On Sunday morning I travelled still further south (about 450 km) changing trains at Bordeaux and Toulouse and finally meeting Malcolm at the nearest station to his home in Cordes sur Ciel.Malcolm was a student at my very firstBrian Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10802352695666737088noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29841606.post-30023078067029509042015-05-13T07:16:00.000+12:002015-05-13T07:16:26.600+12:00The Barge Cruise That Wasn’tThe rain that I experienced in Paris last week caused flooding of the Yonne. So, although this week we only had a few showers, the river was too high to allow access to the canal. Therefore our barge, the Luciole, never left the quay at Auxerre.
The trip I booked last July and which cost more than all my other 7 weeks of travel in Europe (airfares excepted) was very disappointing. ThereBrian Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10802352695666737088noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29841606.post-43841845543442786342015-05-03T21:42:00.001+12:002015-05-03T21:42:45.160+12:00Paris RevisitedI am off again, this year to France, Germany and Austria.I spent 4 nights in Sydney, fortunately in beautiful weather, a few showers on the way to the airport were the only indication of the deluge to come after I departed. I again made the obligatory ferry trip to Manly and had a lovely lunch with my sister on the waterfront at Circular Quay following a movie set in France which seemed Brian Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10802352695666737088noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29841606.post-60609152367172524442015-01-04T16:19:00.000+13:002015-01-04T16:19:19.825+13:0012 years ago todayBushfires In WoodfordBrian Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10802352695666737088noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29841606.post-45243332110986046592014-09-29T08:31:00.000+13:002014-10-07T19:54:28.132+13:00Dunedin Remembers World War 1It is now 100 years since the beginning of the Great War. The first infantry from Otago and Southland left from the Dunedin Railway station 100 years ago this week. The country with the highest proportions of deaths per head of population was New Zealand.
Yesterday I went to see the Procession to the Station and the ceremony that followed.
Brian Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10802352695666737088noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29841606.post-70522763426104713612014-09-27T13:45:00.000+12:002014-10-02T20:41:19.883+13:00Overnight Train Travel Part 2 (1976 to 1996)
I returned to Europe in the (Australian) summer holidays of 1976-77.
After some time in London and visiting friends by train in Bradford and Oxford, I again caught the night train to Paris. However the Aussie dollar had fallen and I had a mortgage so I sat up and alighted from the train at Dover, onto the ferry and back onto the train in Calais.
During the week In Paris I made day trips Brian Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10802352695666737088noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29841606.post-35478549386789070242014-09-17T16:55:00.000+12:002014-09-17T16:55:26.510+12:00Overnight Train Travel (Part 1 1954? to 1974)I have just read http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/sep/12/europe-night-trains-sleeper-service that overnight trains are to be discontinued in much of Western Europe next year. This is disappointing as I had hoped to travel on the night train from Paris to Munich next May.I love overnight train travel and began to reminisce about my experiences.My first overnight travel was while I was Brian Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10802352695666737088noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29841606.post-2870221822417959582014-08-28T13:22:00.000+12:002014-08-28T13:22:24.825+12:00A few days in the South Island of New Zealand Part 3The next morning I drove and climbed up to a view of the Franz Josef
glacier. It has retreated a lot since I was last there in 1973.I took a short walk to a small pond known as Peter's Pond which had great reflections.I
drove south to Fox Glacier where we use to camp on the school trips I
led in the early 70's. I went out to Lake Matheson. I did not remember
it as being such a Brian Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10802352695666737088noreply@blogger.com0