Holby City,
Vampire
Academy) returns in the lead role of Issie Brown and is
joined once again by New Zealanders Antonia Robinson, Max
Crean, Jacqueline Joe (
Top of the Lake), Josh Tan
(
Mulan,
Tales of Nai Nai) and Harriet
Walton.
In the new seasons, Issie and her gang of
horse-mad friends will not only have to tackle all the usual
trials and tribulations of being a teenager – romance,
identity, friendship and conflict with parents - but will
also have to battle against new and unexpected threats to
their beloved stables and local environment. In season two,
their lives will be thrown into turmoil by the arrival of a
Sarah McMullan05:00, Apr 30 2021
TVNZ
Mystic When I was growing up, girls tended to be horse girls or ballet girls. I got bitten by a horse, sat on by a different horse, and a third horse dumped me in a watering trough. Then I turned eight. I was tutus all the way. Fast-forward 35 years, and no-one was more surprised than me when I sat down to review
Mystic and ended up watching every single episode available. Based on the Pony Club Secrets series of books by Stacy Gregg, the adaptation is a joint UK/NZ production. Most of series one was available last year on TVNZ OnDemand, but the Covid lockdown stopped production. However, it is now complete.
It has never ceased to surprise me that those who profit at the expense of others are so unaware of the harm suffered by those they exploit, and are so convinced that they have a right to do the exploiting and that their profit is a proper and justifiable reward .
4 days ago
The government’s recent housing package may work; will it do enough?
Trick Question: Does New Zealand have a capital gains tax on housing? If you ask the Prime Minister she will say not. It is true that her government is increasing the scope of the ‘bright-line test’ on non-family homes to .
Red 2.2.1
Yep in principal on the approach, not so much the spin and politics of it all , the team of 5m thing ( vomit inducing) , canonisation of certain individuals, smugness of nz in contrasting other countries without realising how much advantage we have to most other nations, releasing not so complementary reports on health sector performance very late and after the election, attempts to make this a left and right issue Apart from that on board
Drowsy M. Kram 2.2.1.1
Red, what makes you think that there s a (general?) lack of realisation of the advantages (
e.g. remote island, delayed risk of exposure, small well-educated population, competent leaders and dedicated public health workers focussed on protecting the health of citizens) that NZ has wrt this global pandemic?
Yesterday we had the unseemly sight of a landleech threatening to keep his houses empty in response to better tenancy laws. Meanwhile in Catalonia they have a solution for that: nationalisation