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This year I’ve grown taller.
It’s mainly as a result of wearing shoes to work. When I take them off I am my normal height. I chose to start a career, and it’s been a year of learning, phone calls, research and writing, business meetings, commuting. [...]
On Boxing Day, a group of us went tramping up the Pinnacles, in the Coromandel Ranges. We stayed overnight at the Pinnacles Hut and made a couple of good attempts at the Kauaeranga trail that takes you right up to the summit of the Pinnacles. The views from the top were stunning, and the tramp featured some heartfelt EGC moments amidst the huffing and puffing, the encouragement, and the character-building.
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NZ singer-songwriter Brooke Fraser’s sophomore album “Albertine” has been picked as the best Christian album of 2008 by a US evangelical website.
Christian Music Today, the online music website for ChristianityToday.com, recently published its selections for the Best Christian Albums of 2008, an annual list that is regularly one of the year’s most-read articles on the site [...]
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This is a more overtly Christian contemporary song – clean chords, a standard verse-chorus x2, bridge chorus x2 structure and distilled lyrics in a humble attempt to be clear-cut.
Kiwi fans of the CBS’s Emmy award-winning show, The Amazing Race, will be pleased to know that New Zealand has been featured again in a leg of the race. In the recently-concluded Season 13, the 4th leg of the race saw remaining teams shuttle into Auckland and Te Puke.
In between shooting footage for the race, NZ-born host Phil Keoghan drops into Burger Fuel for a spot of lunch:
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On Monday I blogged about the Christmas Tui billboard and lamented the fact that the tongue-in-cheek description of our priorities for the Christmas season is pretty accurate.
Since then, someone’s thought of a witty comeback to the billboard behind the Ellerslie Squash Club:
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(UPDATE: Thankfully I’m not the only one who’s feeling a bit aggrieved today.)
Driving to work today, I saw the latest Tui billboard – and I’m a bit angry about it.
I haven’t got a picture of it, but if my memory was correct it read something like this:
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