Flexible but not movable (11 June 2025)

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Welcome to Wednesday. Glad you could make it hit till twelve. Marcus is the name and great to be here. Eight hundred eighty ten eight. If you want to talk, Oh, eight hundred eighty ten eighty, that's the phone number. Different number. If you ring from overseas, you can call on WhatsApp, believe it or not. You can text on nine two nine do You can email Marcus at news TALKZB dot co dot WHATY Does that feel funny like? It's not the email. I don't know why that is. Seems so

Yeah, I'm actually the mayor of Parmers North and I know a bit about the road. So look at can I just.

Can I just throw something at you? There was there was a bit of fear mangring it was going to be told, was it? And they stopped there? Is that right?

Yeah?

Yeah, well done?

Yeah yeah, it was a bit of It was a bit of i'd say a little bit of trepidation that it was going to be told. But look, I'm just actually an Asheist right now at a community meeting and that the new road has opened to a bit of fan fare, I mean a lot of commentary about how great it is, and you know, seven minutes between the two towns of Ashurst and Woodsville, it is a it is a great scenic road too, so look, it's it's fantastic for us here in the in the Manowood city

Has it caused a land grab to the east that people want to buy properties there because it's now much easier to commute to Palmerston North.

Absolutely, I think it will be a Woodville will become a commute well, it already is a commuter town to Palmerston or City and the easy easiness of being able to get across now and to and from work. What I think will make Woodville very attractive to new home buyers and those sorts of people.

Yeah, no, it's fantastic. Okay, So it's all go. And what was the openin? Was it kind of a soft opening? Was this always a day that was planned to open?

You had it, you were right on the money, and maybe the money was the thing they didn't They didn't put enough into in terms of opening it, but they missed an opportunity. Transport agents. Yeah, the Transport Agency opened it on Saturday morning, but they could have done a free community day where people could just walk the bridge.

So it's cause of celebs cause of celebration, isn't it?

Yeah?

Absolutely yeah.

And the train still go through the gorge. Have I got that correct?

Yeah?

It does.

And look, if you go back to the late eighteen hundred, they used picks and shovels to open up the train. The train, you know, the rightway line was went through, but on the other side, on the on the road side, they dynamize of it. And you know that probably has been the difference of why they had all the slips.

Are you going for another shot at the mayalty grant? Are you you're going again?

Yeah, I'm going to have another crack three more years and we'll see how it.

Well.

Is there any one money against you or or that you're like because you've been out of the news so much, I mean you haven't really, I mean there's been no great abdication. You're you're a dead suirit to be beck and are.

You well you can never be complacent. But I've been the mere for a decade now, and as you say, sometimes when you're not on the news, that's good.

It's a very good thing. Right. Well, look, thank you for giving us your time tonight, and I really appreciate that. There we go, that's the road, it's open, that's the mirror of Parmeston. So it goes between it's actually not, so it goes between essurist and woodful. I guess you'd say it, But he's quite right. They should have a bit more of a song and dance about the opening of that one. But there you go. If you you yourself have driven that and got a road report for us,

Good evening, Marcus. Yeah, I just want to talk about I love in Gennie Rouge. I just want to talk about new road really exciting. David opened. So I think all live in Denny Vige to Mute to Paris, the North and basher Forth. I lived in Deny Vue for about four years now, but I've still got family in Paris, and also I can mute quite regularly, so it's quite exciting. And the shopped this morning my daughter because she worked

Well he should he should have driven that. It was his job to get that going. How long did how long din a victorpartments north? Is it forty minutes?

For well, fifteen minutes of my little calf and of you go from Getty Ricka up to the gett a road that's not a nice road.

Was a new road? How long does it take with a new road?

Apparently? Well, I don't notice. I cann't travel it today, so okay, only only the other way?

Did your door to say? How much quicker it was?

She did? It was quite nice. It was quite nice, but she was she didn't even know what was going to be open either, So until she went to go the end. Then she takes me to this open man, so.

She should she should have taken you.

Well, she was going to work so this morning and it came back tonight. So it's because I lived right on the State Highway three and I got the railway track on one side and end the State highway on the other side. So yeah, they looked looked forward to it so long. So yeah, I'm looking forward to traveling tomorrow.

I've put into Google Maps, but the Google Maps is not showing the new road.

Obviously take a better time.

So yeah, I'm not very happy with that. Actually I thought that would be up to date.

Yeah, we didn't know Thomas mon I needed, so I guess.

It takes you haven't got much of a bush telegraph there and Eddio. That's disgusting that you've got no idea when you road. Don't know that'd be the only story in town.

I was only just said my daughter takes me when she was going to week Sat, and so nobody knew what date or it was officially open on Saturday, and the governing officials come through and not open to the public, so we didn't know exact they win.

So yeah, people are more people are more people moving to Donaverk or leaving Diana Vik.

It's been hard to say. And between we're getting a lot of awkward people coming and I don't.

Think, I don't think have been moving ton would.

They mean awkward people coming to Jenny vug This the main year really.

Buying a renter or moving there and gloating about how much money they made with their house selling their house up down.

Well, they're not not gloating. They're buying and buying a house and just finding a lot cheaper.

And and what are they doing for a crust Well, we're.

Still working and you know, working from home, and they're still doing whatever they do.

Or don't ask like influences or fitness consultants or what would you do from home?

And Genny Vik, I don't know because they don't ask them so.

Much what they're doing.

They'll change the lifestyle for them though. That's the flower paint and one that I thought she seemed to be quite eppy.

So it's a long way for.

I guess, so which is yeah, but you've got to foot with the beds.

So yeah, you got any roundabouts?

Uh? Maybe one? Maybe no too, you got you got one?

But you've got one. No parking meters, no tarking meters.

No, it's quite yeah, quite simple.

Yeah, who runs who runs the town?

The local mers? Tracy Martin? Yeah yeah, Terror district.

She's the one that killed him mother? Who was that that killed him mother? Remember that? Is it Tracy Martin?

Just not that one of Terror district? So not who you know? Okay, but anyway, Yeah, interesting shows the interest you listen to see what other people do know.

It's interesting, that's for sure. So yeah, I think it was Tracy Martin. They wrote a book about that, didn't They was like, a might have got that wrong flit the note, but you know, Lawsy read a book about her, forget what a day. It was pretty sure was Tracy Martin. Anyway, the name will country from Fong and anyway, Oh eight hundred and eighty toil eighty nine two nine two to tict So that's a pretty interesting half hour, moving to the north end of the South Island, moving to small towns.

Hey, how are you good?

Jordan? Are you a mover?

I am, yes, recently from Auckland down to the Otaga region into Dunedin.

Wow, because.

Cheap houses.

Did you realize, did Jordan? Did you realize was a thing?

I guess like from from I've not of mates have lived down in the South and then gone up to Auckland to earn a bit more, and then obviously it goes a bit further down there in kennerburtin Otago.

Yeah. I just never realized. I mean when the sense of stuff comes through, it looks like it's a really big deal. With eighty six thousand people, almost one hundred thousand moving to the North Island from the North Island to the South within five years, it's a big deal.

Sure is.

Is it worked out for you?

Yeah?

Well maybe not like super uncommon, but I guess we made it work by we took our Auckland jobs down with us, both my wife and I. We work for tech companies up at Auckland, and with the work from home from COVID that's translated into the role can now be kind of remote from New Zealand. So we're just I just took there as an opportunity to go somewhere a bit cheaper Stanley down there as well.

So yeah, do.

The bosses ever want to see you in Auckland?

Yeah, actually I'm here at the moment. That's how I caught winding there in my mum's cash. She's got z beyond, so that's how he's asking about it. Yeah, So yeah, up here at the moment. Just come back from time to time because obviously there's always good stuff to do it in person, but.

Because that is the hussle from the end of the airport. So is far damn far away. A. That's the that's the big downer.

Yes, ye, it's probably the biggest drive you can do down there. Actually, Yes, from from like the Oxygen out past moscowle out to the airport.

Yeah, so tell me how many years since you moved down?

Just this year?

Actually very recently?

Okay, because the whole thing that's key I reckon is when you move from one place to the other, is when you realize that it's permanent. Has that happened for you yet? Have you settled in straight away or is it still a work in progress and you might move back?

Now we're committed. Now we bought some property, yes, so I guess that's made it pretty real. Yeah, so definitely just gonna I guess paid down mortgage there. And maybe maybe it changes again, like if the job market changes and people don't let you work from home anymore. But while while it works, it works, and I think that's where we'll be.

Is there is there any down side with it to be working from home?

Definitely?

I would say it does impact on your upward mobility, like you're not really coming across the opportunities. There's not I guess interned and there ares and tech jobs given day where the gigatown when five or first came through. But obviously I think especially for the work that we're doing, it's definitely all happening in Auckland. Maybe a little bit in christ Church too, but so.

Career advance when in getting hit hunted and stuff that's not going to happen because those people aren't there. Is that kind of what you're saying.

Yeah, And I think also just with the amount of people out of work. If you know, if someone came across your LinkedIn or something and said, hey, we've got an opportunity for you, if you said I have to be I'm playing them allagine living indeed, and then maybe they'd look past you for probably ten other candidates that they've got available in an orpened in person.

Have you found it easy to meet people?

Yes, Actually one thing we different they noticed was introducing yourself to friends of friends. People are quite quite almost more accommodating I would say, down there than they are even though you aren't out of town and from the big city.

Yeah, definitely quite accommodating.

Well, I guess probably quite surprised because for so long people leaving to need to head north. I mean the thing that now that the reverse things started, it's probably quite exciting for people. Yeah, exactly your house isn't too cold, is it.

No, No, it's it's got all the nice things that heat pump, they would burners both keep we keep it nice and warm.

The great thing about in a cold climate you can always if you're always stuck for a conversation, if you discuss what sort of firewood you're burning, that you can go for days about that. That you're never alone with a conversation like that. That's everyone could talk about firewood.

Yeah.

Yeah, And obviously I gues said the same Vein, Like you go to the shops, people are much willing to just talk about anything. Yeah, have longer random conversations than I guess I found it awkward.

Did you just choose to or did you look around islet towns in the South Island before you head on Dunedin.

Leeden?

Was?

It was mainly for the family that we had there already.

Okay, so here that was the big draw.

Really interesting to talk Jordan, Thank you so much to that, very generous with your information. Find this fascinating, absolutely fascinating because your thought. For a long time the South Island was dying, but then there was the quake in the rebuild, and then of course Central Targo is growing like topsy because it's spectacular despite all its planning issues. Yeah, and let's not forget Rolliston growing like there's no tomorrow. I

You go.

A lot of people like a lifestyle block too, don't they. So there we go. It's amazing. After the quake, everyone thought that christ Church would well, not everyone, but they thought, well, it's touch and go where the christ Church would survive and Canterbury's blossomed. The new road, the new road that's open and moving from the northide to the south side. There're two of the discussions that we've got on today.

Oh, Marcus.

I wonder if it's harder for more recent immigrants to make them move. Marcus, visiting family in the South Island's like returned to the good old days of thirty or forty years ago. A lot of Auckland's become like a pig stye Marcus, I wonder how many of those Wellington people that are moving down to the South Island ex government workers have rescuing made redundant. I went the opposite way several years ago, from the South Island to the

You know, Marcus, I've got a field Day's report and a new roundabout report about the priory roundabout how it handled its thirst field days today?

How fast the part of any roundabout from the field days forty k's or further than that.

So normally it would take thirty five minutes to get to the field days and this morning we left at eight o'clock and we were there about forty five minutes, so it was ten minutes longer. Yeah, that's pretty good.

What are you looking for? You're looking to buy more collars for your cows? Is that what you're into? What are you looking for?

Taking the kids, taking the three youngest and send them out on a little the quest. I had to find how much the average farc spends on fertilizer the balanced tent there was one path to. The second one was the price of a new John de attractor, which is ridiculous, and the third one was getting a free hat.

Why don't we make our own tractors?

Wow, for the price of that John Dee a tractor, I think you can make quite a few tractors.

How much is a John Dere We brought.

One about five years ago and it was one hundred and five thousand, four one hundred and seen normals and gets how much it is today in twenty twenty five, same tractor with a fronting loader.

One hundred and eighty one eighty thousand. I hate it when you guess just right that Rick's a guest, doesn't it That does seem a lock the way.

It seems like, yeah, and so wondering why you're not selling as well? Wow, that's seventy five thousand too much and this hasn't even exactly the same model.

Did he sharpen his pencil for field day deal?

Wow?

The other one, it's probably the twy Corolla effects that's probably too good and last too long and don't break down enough. They need to make them a bit shittier.

How much would you sell your old one for?

Well?

Here he can Well that's the thing they're trying to get you on the Tayden. Here he can give me the same price back for it, and then you don't have to pay seventy five thousand for the new one. I'd do that, Yeah, possible, fash happened depencil Maybe maybe for sixty, but.

It's just the same. It's not gonna it's got no more bought bells or whistles or anything.

Yeah, pretty much just the same. Yeah, I couldn't. They don't actually have one yet, but I've seen about fender them lined up in the yards. They got a lot for me to go.

What's the other anyway? What's the other Thing's got people talking at the field days?

Ah, it was all about drones. It was about one hundred different drone dealers.

Now what are the drones for? For for fertilizer or for rounding up your candle or what?

I think they just mainly for driving around and your farm and like looking at things. Yeah.

So you're sit at home in the lounge on your lazy boy. You got that rigged up to the TV. You're just watching with screen.

Yeah.

So you got the Warriors on, you got your throwing out there picking on things, you got the you got your one hundred and eighty thousand dollars tracks tucked up on the shed. You're are ready to go?

Do yourself a hot did you yourself a hot dog or anything special?

Many?

Yeah?

So the balance the balance pit came through with the best brief. I quite like join my free food there. But there was gourmet pies and balanced tint and quite good coffee yep. And and uh the best coffee actually was Rabobank. Oh wow, into a bit of a coffee these days a ruber Banks and positioning out the good coffee. But I just want quickly about the roundabout performance. Yes, it went really well today, no crashes, It didn't need

This is the one. This is the one on the way to Hobbits in that roundabout A That's the one, isn't it.

Yeah, with a big hawk on it. I've found out it's a falcon.

Not a fork.

That's right. Yeah. Yeah. The sculpture of that the guy Graham, he just died too, so that was good. That got up before. Yeah, I was reading about having too.

So it's like it's like the New Zealand native falcons. I'm trying to think of a name for our airbnb that I've made out of an old worker's house on the farm. I want to do something about the falcon and our so the level that an overlooks the falcons, I'm thinking of calling it the falcon's nest or the falcon's or something.

Well, let you always go, you always go Falcons Rest.

Don't you Falcon's Rest?

Because there was a TV show Whiles, But I like everything is called falcons Rest, isn't it? Is that right? I think it was a TV show, wasn't it?

Yeah?

How much a night?

Well, we've had our first We've had Houston Group. So I had some surfers from Hawaii and it's pretty it's pretty backpackerish, so I put all the kids in there. It's pretty rough. So I've been going. You still it out around thirty dollars a night. We had ten people say, so there was a pretty good, pretty good five days, two hundred and nights people.

Wow, okay, long way from the long way from the surf though.

Oh yeah.

They were going to Hobbiton and Road now using it as a bit of a face can for wife and doing something in Cambridge Shire. But they were like Christian surfers, they're on a mission. They're out to people.

Oh they're still about the Christian surfers. So they don't go away anytime soon, do they.

Wow, Christian surfers are still going in this millennium just like Jesus and are still still ticking over.

Were there are?

Yeah?

Okay, well not nice to hear from you, but it's a tremendous report. I enjoyed that much, so thanks very much for that. Nine Away from nine Chris, it's Marcus. Welcome. Hi Chris.

Oh hi Marcus. Sorry. Yes, I just would love to be at field days, but that's not why I rang, But I'd love to get you one day. I've just watched the new season of the Castera Tiers Life and Death around the Globe was Frounces and Payora Tippany. I was quite interested to watch it after in the public arena with their staff member, which was quite terrible for them, and it was a really great program for the series. Tonight they were in Tonga and where his ancestors are

Did they acknowledge what had happened with that prosecution?

No, Well, I'm actually looking at it. They had their baby daughter in the program and left their boys at home, and the babies like not that old, less than a year old, and I'm wondering if it was before filmed.

Before the prosecution, you could well have been.

Yeah, so judging by the age of the baby because at the end of the last series, with their particular staff member still in it, the baby had just been born and a daughter after a whole lot of boys.

So they are they sort of going on the world, looking at around the world, looking at funeral stuff. Is that the way the series works?

Well, it's it's saying life and death around the globes, and next week they're going to I think Rarah, Tonga. I'm not sure.

So.

I thought it might have been for the Pacific, but I don't really know so, but I just thought it was quite lovely tonight because that's where his ancestors were from and the respect that.

You know, so he's Tongue and is he.

He's half Tongu and he has Murray and Tonguan. I think his father was Tongan. And he's ever been to Tonga though it's only three hours away, he'd never been. So he met an ancestor tonight and visited the graves of his ancestors like his great great grandfather and so it was very and then visited a funeral home and other undertank takers. I mean, it sounds a bit morbid, but it wasn't really. It was very respectful and very heartfelt, I thought to night.

So, oh, yeah, they seemed to friend with people. I don't think it's my jam. I don't like watching about death, but people do seem to love it, don't they.

No, well, I was about to say, you can only have so much of it, but I was interested to watch the first program of after what had happened to see how they redeemed themselves. But they were out of New Zealand, so that probably made it.

I also remember that they went to They went very quickly after Queen Elizabeth died to get themselves involved with her funeral, which I always thought was a strange thing to do, but that seemed to be something they wanted to do.

Sorry, they worry.

They went to join the queue for Queen Elizabeth when she had died and was laying in state. Remember that.

I do vaguely remember that.

Yeah. I don't know if that was for the series or not.

Yeah, I don't know, but I mean whether I tune in every week, but I was quite interested tonight just to see how they redeemed themselves for a TV program after the very terrible public profile figure of their last series.

Yeah, agreed, look nice to hear from you, Christ and thanks for bringing that out. That's a good report. I'm going to start this hour with extremely good joke that I've been sent in. Marcus. How did the tractor break up with the other tractor? She wrote him a John Dee letter. That is quality. By the way, falcons Crest, not falcon Rest, was a TV program. I'd got it. Falcons Crest tempted to come stay myself. Actually, I'm just trying to. We're planning a hobbit and holiday fidget spin.

Thank you excellent will. I was wanting to why people in New Zealand say if you do a news article and then you read down and you say two five to six instead of at five to six. Why I don't get it. I just realized that I'm not exactly sure why that happens.

Tell me about tell me again so I can listen more closely.

So if I listen to the news or the weather forecast on news talks at b so someone might say, oh, you know, it's stormy in christ Church whatever two five to six instead of saying at six o'clock or at the time. You guys use the word too. I've been here for eight years. I'm just not quite sure why people use the word two instead of act. I know this might be really boring, but I honestly, genuinely don't understand.

Why do you understand what they saying?

No, I understand what they're saying. I just don't two a time instead of at the time.

Tell me again how it goes.

So, say I was.

Saying, oh, it's stormy and christ night two five to six, whereas if I was an English presenter, I'd say it's stormy in christ night at five to six. Why do you say two five to six?

Have I seen it?

Not you personally, but everyone on the radio station, on this radio station does Why do people say two a time. I'm not trying to be boring Marcus Onathy, I'm not. I nearly didn't ring in.

I just.

At the out of the outtro of the bulletin.

Right.

Yeah, they'll say that's using sports.

To Yes, so they say two five passics instead of at five pastics.

Because the news and sport has taken the slot up to five to six. It's the it's the it's the six o'clock news, and that's using sport to five past six.

So is there a reason that British people and New Zealanders do it differently? So that was my question. I going to be antagonistic.

I haven't heard British radio what they would say.

I don't think i've ever heard another country say two instead of I was just interesting.

But it wouldn't make sense world.

Well, if you normally say, oh, so this is the news at six o'clock.

Yes, they start off at the same in the news, this is the news at six, and that the ends they say, this is news in sport to five past six.

I agree with you, But in the on if you've traveled and I know that you have done so, yes, you say at six o'clock at the start of the news article, but at the end of it you don't say two ten past six, so.

You think they should say that's news and sports.

I'm just that I know, I'm genuinely interested as to why it is.

It's a question.

So you're saying, to be more grammatical to say that's news and sport and the time is now five past six.

I'm not directing anybody, Marcus. My question is why is it different? Because I've not heard it before. So normally people say, oh, this is what we reported at this time, not to this time. It was just a query. I'm sorry for ringing in.

I think it's interesting.

I just.

I'm just not sure what the answer is.

Lean neither that's records ringing it because.

What we say is that using sport to five past six.

Yes, So normally if you were listening to the I'm not saying everyone should listen to the BBC, but if you were listening to that, they would say that was the news and sport at five plast six. They wouldn't say two five plastics.

Wow.

Okay, I know that's entirely boring. I'm going to continue listening. I'm sorry, apologize.

I felt it interesting. But yeah, look, I don't set up the templates for the news and sports to like it. It's out, it's out beyond my brief. It doesn't jar with me. It makes sense to me. Someone else might want to comment about that, or some might want to comment on Angie. What they thinking about Energi. Yeah, when you spoke to travel to broaden your experience and different experiences are you? I don't know? And all the things of all the things in the world. Marcus tell her

What that lady was saying about the way you finish your news and weather. There's another news program in the next hour, so you're up to the five past eight. There's going to be another one at five past nine, so two five past eight, next one is to follow. It's not the end of it. It's not the last news.

Of the day, is it.

No, So what does that mean?

Well, when if you said there's the news at five past eight, that kind of completes it. If you say that's the news to five past eight, because this morning used to come next there there'll be another one.

Oh yeah, And I think all this is probably quite planned. I think we don't do things. I don't think we do things in an ad hoc or reckless men are with our news.

No, no, I think in the most complete sense.

Yeah, but it jarred with her. I know she didn't want to come across as sounding patronizing, but she was a bit defensive, but yeah, look, I don't know what that was. Good evening Markets, Marcus, Welcome.

Good evening Marcus. The up under two one country the British had knocked in one word of and the kiwis is not one word of. So it used to be the news and weather up to six o'clock. Now someone says news and weather up six o'clock. On News and Weather two six o'clock, it's quite simple.

Really doesn't sound that simple because we're too about that's news and sport to five past six.

Yeah, but you could say up to five past six and people have dropped one of the words.

Why would you say up to five? Why would you say up to five past six?

Because that's all the news and sport that I know about up to five past six.

Basically, I think that sounds I think to me, that sounds a bit clunkier.

Yeah, that's why they've cut them short. That's why they've cut words off.

Okay, who's they as well?

Anyone who's in the business, I suppose decides which words to cut out on the radio or TV programs or whatever, just to shorten the abbreviation so then get through more stuff. I suppose I don't know or people just get lazy and say, oh, let's just say up up six o'clock or two six o'clock.

Yeah, I'm not fully in agreement with you, Mart, but I appreciate your confidence that you rung out and said that with Dale Marcus. Good evening and welcome.

You get a Marcus.

Look.

I've just come up over the New George Road.

So you've gone it's east west west east, isn't it?

Is that?

What?

That's the way it goes with a kink.

Yeah, Well I've traveled. Yeah, I've traveled from the Fielding side, coming through to Ashes and up over the Gorge towards Woodville and gone over to paid perf for something. And I've come on the way back both ways. The fantastic views of Parmes the north and Woodville and you know,

Maybe and this is the Essue side or the woods Woodville side side. Okay, maybe they've got the signe writing just quite Oh you can see that now. I'm just looking at Google Maps, but that's kind of the photos a bit outdated, so they're not even directed. So that's interesting. You've got good views down over Parmeerston North that would be quite spectacular.

Absolutely spectacular. Almost the roads up over the hills here are yeah, like the Soil Road or the posts who are track. You get incredible views of the whole city at night time and in the day. But yeah, I'm be interested to hear anyone else's comments that have traveled over and if they've kind of come to the same conclusion that as you come down towards ashes. There's a very small sign on the side showing aroundabout, but I would have thought that have a big sign saying major intersection.

Head you're a bit will they run into snow trouble there snow?

Yeah, we occasionally with occasion you get snow. And the monow two probably over the hills a bit further you can see snow at the moment. I'm not sure if what I've seen snow in the twenty five years i've lived over this way over the Sederl Road. But anyway, there we go.

I always remember those bleak conditions when there was that nd set playing Crest that was the other side, wasn't it the flight seven oh three? Terrible conditions? Weren't you remember those fat footage of that play from there?

You further around towards the up there at the moment, if you look not on the where the TV and tenor is, but further around, there's tons of snow on the hills around all the ranges around there for sure. And Livin there's there's there's always snow in the winter.

Great report, Thanks Dale, hold your horses, Johnny with you soon, Sue, It's Marcus. Welcome good evening.

Oh hello, Marcus.

Hi.

I used to be a grammar teacher for the international students who came to New Zealand and for the refugees, and when you always taught there. But the prepositions in on and at and in was for in the morning, in the afternoon and in the evening. And on was for on Sunday, on Monday, on Tuesday, on Wednesday, so that was days of the week. And at was always for the time, like at four o'clock, at five o'clock, at six o'clock, at seven o'clock.

Yeah, I think it was always for the time.

Yeah.

I think they say this is the news at six o'clock and then they say that is the news to five past six. It's like the end bracket on the news.

Oh.

I say, what's.

At the other end of it, Johnny, it's Marcus.

Good evening, Oh, good evening, you st. I was just getting on the conversation about people moving down to the South Holland and droves. I remember going back to South Holland for thro Tom and Tetay them and there were still people leaving the bottom of the South Island and drives, and there was row after row of houses and Avocago that were empty that Lenolds couldn't rent.

No.

I remember after the earthquake and chriss each around that time that you know, there was a lot of incentive for people to move to chross Chuch. But there's this old story that there was no way for people to live. And I just heard something about it just a few days ago that there was there's still not enough places for people to live. Who for moving down there.

It's funny. It's funny because there was that, you know, in Vercago had the fastest declining population in the Southern hemisphere. There was that, Yeah, And I don't really know what turn that round. Probably in all reality was the dairy boom and so much dairy support and dairy workers. I think there's that, But also to this funny old micro migrations too funny enough. After the christ Church quake, I noticed a lot of people moved from christ It's two

Yeah, that is interesting. Yeah, I think it's all that seems always interesting. Hey, Marcus, I did want to ask for something else. We went over to the Pikatarki broach today just before tunny as work, and we drove through some floodwaters on on the way towards Pokahena coming from Totonga. And that the Pikatarki bridge is over one hundred years old and it's going to be replaced. But it's it's absolutely terrible. And when you have it's a traffic light bridge,

It's a single it's a single lane bridge, isn't.

Yes, Yes, there's traffic light at each end and so it runs out like you know that the old pedestrian crossing runs out before you get to the other side. Tunes read again from green Well this this happened today and I thought that's pretty dangerous.

What we're doing. What we're doing in the crane.

I've got a truck with a crane. It's just a small one and I'm just doing a little bit of work on it before I get a tear cel and start my own little delivery business of sides eight tons and yeah, a nice little crane there.

So what will you be delivering?

Oh like railway sleepers when we can get them again, and yeah, paving palettes to building sites. But it interesting thing on the way down today to one and we saw the railway lines and there's a hole of golf carts on railway tracks. Now there's a little tour you can go on down the just around each comp Yeah I hate it. Yes, it's cheer boy.

Doesn't doesn't. It's just a disgusting that we had a great rail in it. We Now we got people on golf frolly saying, oh look at this is amazing. I mean, you know anyway, what what what? What is interesting? I think at tunning our tour and you know about this there was a shared road rail bridge. Is that the one you're talking about?

No?

Did that goes as far as twenty A tour where was the road rail bridge the shared one?

Do you remember we a sheared road railroadge for us and to with the railway track in the road. No, no, my patents.

From the remember.

I might have my rise crossed.

Yeah, there's a whole lot of railway line that's up. That'scott farmland on it. So there's the railway's been abandoned. There's BlackBerry growing over the top of it near the river. Yeah, and so there's railway sleepers. People have come along and just checked up the railway lines and punched them all.

But what's Johnny, what's the sleeper worth?

Oh?

Retail ninety dollars? Oh yeah, yeah, shocking, isn't it.

Well try and making one, I suppose. Yeah, I guess they're worth what people will pay for them.

Well, there used to be reasonably priced to buy, but now you know they're run well over one thousand dollars for a bund or twenty five. So you're looking at transporting those as well, which is about it up to twelve hundred kilograms.

Yeah, I'm going to run Johnny on news. But look, it's nice to talk to you. Thank you for that. Keep your calls coming through and enjoying it greatly. People, it'scared to say the time now in case and who's going to come down the pipes? What are you saying that, Jason Marcus? Welcome Marcus made a right, Yeah, good Jason yourself.

Hey, he'd pretty good on the headline there. We're just talking about facial recognition technology and a bit behind nowadays. Hey, I want to swing back to the railways for a second. You know, one of the biggest issues is maintaining the railways and keeping it eye on the tracks and all the people. We need to actually go ahead and actually make sure the railway is safe for people to use.

Very exciting.

Actually, facial recognition technology is being used all around the world. Are you excited about it or you're not?

For you, how is it going to possibly impact your life?

I think probably removing I think probably removing the sphere of whether there are desirable people in places I don't want them to be, especially if we know who they are.

Does it Are you scared? Often? Have people been where they shouldn't be or where you are?

Well?

No, but I think there is a I think there is a more fragile group of people out there. As as we engaging population, there's chrime rates starts to sort of you know, tear off. We've still got a bit of the unknown. Is there somebody in a bar who shouldn't be there because they caused the ruckus three weeks ago? Is there somebody who was I'm.

Not necessarily going to cause a ruckus this time? Are they if it's a well managed bar. Are that you're handing too much faith into the technology?

Well, we're moving that way, and we're using that airport's already all around the world. We're using going to have train stations already all around the world. We're using it when we go to the airport, when you go on your flight, when you arrive in America, when you arrive the most sort of you know, airports in the world. We'd already using it, would be using it for a long time. It's nothing new. What I'd be interested in is how far are they going to take it? Where

That's probably I think.

It's concerned God on here, Jason, thanks for that. Twenty five to ten, someone said it's another way of saying up until is two For a good point, Marcus, are the stories online about Bradley Walsh being sacked from the chase?

True?

Is at fake news? I click on the stories but seems to get redirected other websites. Cheers, curious that will be fake news. If Bradley Walsh got the don't come Monday, it would be third story up in the bulletin. So yes, but thanks for asking. But yes, they go to and then they get the hits, the clicks Marcus, it's the news up to six, but the upper is usually dropped. Oh my god, that was so boring. My English daddy is to say the time was five and twenty past, Kezzy,

Evening, Marcus. How are you this fine evening?

Good things has excellent?

Hey, thought I just took my take on a field days today.

Yeah, I thought it was.

I thought it was really busy. I've been to a few of that events over the years. Looks like it was the best kind of best weather window was today. I'll head back there tomorrow and finish off my circuit. But yeah, I thought it was a really positive, h positive vibe out there. A lot of farmers, a lot of people looking at big machines, and I dare say, you know, some text breaks are going to be very welcome.

Are you in the market for something now?

Not really, I'm I'm in the building trade myself, and I had a look around. I mean, the building world has been pretty.

Challenging the last few years. No secret there.

But yeah, I thought it was a lot more positive conversations I had with.

Yeah, as a builder, why were you there?

We were exhibiting? Yeah, we were there.

And I'm going to be on the stand tomorrow, so z'd be listeners more than welcome to stop by Lendmark.

And it's worth your while.

You sign up homes and stuff with people there.

Look really field Days as a chance for us to connect with people and kind of understand what the what their aspirations are and that kind of thing. And you know it's I mean, you're not going to sell a house at field Days, but you certainly might meet someone who you do build a house with. And I think, you know, it's a great chance to connect with people and really.

Relaxed.

Plenty of good food and good drinks and that kind of thing around. Plenty of cool new toys to look at field Days.

So I think it's a really cool atmosphere.

And you know, what's what's your what's your thing to get people into yours, into your stall.

Yeah, look, it's really that that kind of quality that we shoot for at Lamarck Holmes.

Yeah, but you're giving free free coffee or anything like that, what I mean, You've got to you got to You've got to get people in there, don't you.

Yeah, Well, we've got a we've got a helicopter. Funnily enough, we've got this place out and Takofi and Hamilton that's at air Park.

We've got a few sections.

And they've got a promo helicopter, so they we've blasted Landmark all over it, so people going, we'll see that there. It's usually got taps for beer. But I was disappointed to hear that they are not live with. Hey, maybe something to shoot morning time.

Always next time. Heys, thanks so much that nine from ten angel Ats Marcus, good evening.

Hello, I'm ringing from Northland.

Fra.

Yes, I the awkward thing I.

Lived with for a long time. Bought my first house in my twenties and in Terrace, and then from my late twenties had you know the word out cash up now sar your house moved down to christ Church and I did that and looked around for a bit because for me coming from Auckland, the city was coming back to front so where the eastern suburbs was pretty much like well, not our eastern suburbs in Auckland, but I found that the closer got to.

The airport, the railway lines and the.

Your big pole lines, and that that was the richest suburbs. So normally in Auckland you go to Manory and that's your poorer.

Suburbs and so forth.

But in christ Church that was where the western suburbs are wealthier, so that took me a while to get the head round. But aside from that, got there settlement and took me about three years and ended up buying a place over in Littleton. Loved it, loved the community. Had an earthquake, the dad rocks out of nowhere and I'm thirty eight and there's a lot you're coming home,

So you've moved around a lot plan Sorry, you've moved around a lot.

Not really, because I've just been Auckland, christ Church back up.

To from Ra so not really, it just sounds like it was a very busy itinery would you be worried about would you be worried about would you be worried about another quake in christ Church?

No, I'm probably worried the fact that I'm not thirty two anymore and fifty one just bought a place and for me to sell up and go back down. I'm not fearful of another quake because that could be anywhere.

What seems to be people from Auckland moving up There are people from there moving elsewhere.

People from Auckland will been moving up here.

I know that.

I suppose reason being is that you can get into the proper market and be close to the water, you know, like to the carco or a carcraon all around that area. You got Wypoo and so forth, And it's quick to get back down to Auckland if you wish you away or want to go down to town or so forth.

Like what I've got?

And I'm actually in the up around Omoru tomorrow and destinations which I haven't actually looked at. But when you look at it, I can actually see where people you know, where you can spread yourself out to think, well, I'm going to have a lifestyle and in a good solid base.

So tomorrow.

It's the funny sort of towns. I don't know. Yeah, I I guess it depends on the days you're there. Actually, doesn't it.

Well, if Omor is always good because you've got steampunk, and if you're into steampunk, into the Victorian thing, it doesn't matter what.

I find that a big negative for the town. I thin I'm having people with top hats and goals. They freak me out. Honestly, I think it's got to be one of the most banal things I've ever said. It just is a massive negative for me.

So where are you based again?

Oh? Everywhere? And I'd like to go into it too much Angeler, but I'm stay not a steampunk that's I'd like to say. I'm down on bluff, but nice to hear from me engine. We're just ambling towards the news. People who want to talk after eight hundred and eighty ten eighty and nine two nine two to text if

Yeah great, that's great.

Good Wayne. How are you going all right?

Yeah?

Good good.

I just called you mentioned people moving from the north folt itself on them. We moved from Tarranger to cross Reach at the start of this year, just for something different. Really, our kids are down here at the cross at Kenebary Uni, so we just moved down to be closer and support.

Then really gone.

Yeah, yeah, my wife's a teacher, so she's just leaving here and there and I reckon oz and in mine, so yeah, I just come home for two weeks and then fire doors for two weeks.

And so you're so your employers don't care where your bosses don't care where you are for five four doesn't matter, right Nah?

So yeah, it didn't matter for me for jobs. I don't have to try and get another job down here.

Yeah, and and the and the and they'll fly you from anywhere in New Zealand, will they?

Yeah.

I was just going to get myself to Brisbane, Okay, I understand.

Yes, that's quite convenient because I can get direct flights from Brisbane to cross Chach. We're in Tarang. I got to go in Auckland and then spend the night in Ookland Import and then Trager in the morning.

And did you have a house there? Did you sell a house and buy one in christ Church?

Nah?

We've still got a house in Tarango, Yeah, and pet Mara were and we're just renting it out for a year, that's the plan, just to see what happens. We don't know. We're just renting the house just north of Crossis and Cliply and yeah and joining it down here.

Do you think you've made a decision yet to stay?

No, not one hundred like it down here there are some advantages like more flights, uh, you know, good, closer to the kids. Another reason, Yeah, yeah, well far Les traffic a bit. Yeah, I used to hate the traffic and tearing that so well.

You got that, you got the I mean there itself would seem a good reason to move to me.

Yeah, but I don't have to put up with it now, with my roster and stuff, I can please myself.

So are you kind of open to moving permanently?

Are you?

Or we'll just wait and see.

It's just yeah, wait and see. Really yeah, we're just given ourselves a year see if we like it. It's it's definitely a lot colder. And I would have brought firewood tonight.

Yeah, it's that time, isn't it. How much how much you pay per meter?

I just got two thirds, so I've got a third of Pine and as sead of Oregon and those one hundred and twenty five dollars.

Okay, be cheaper than that in South. It'll be much cheaper in South. And way nice to hear from you. Thank you for that, Marcus. I've heard through Key. We were there doing a case study doing a train to Helensville. It'll be run by the Glenbrook Vintage Railway. I see there there is some sort of a advocacy to bring the train out. As far as who were Pie, I think, or coome you and who are Pie? They're almost the same. But I mean it works. It works if there's congestion.

Hi there road rail bridges, Eh, yeah, I've I encountered one the many years back on a brass monkey motorcycle really to the South Island. I don't know if you've heard.

Of such a thing.

Yes I have.

So we traveled from you know way wherever we were to the Iderburn Dam and oh, yep, that's the one. Coming in. We zig zagged but went over the Lewis up through McKenzie Country. I think coming into Hoka ticker was a bridge that had a.

Train trace and that's now gone. That's how separated. Yep, that one's gone.

Yes, well I I crashed on that due to the railway on my motorcycle.

Dangerous, a terrible things.

Oh it was like it was my poles, you know, I just did n counted such a thing. I thought, oh they're all you know, some of us and we zoom zooms are coming in and I said, ah, railway tracks from the middle.

Of the bridge.

There was a funky bridge too, with the you know, sort of the sides to it that looked a bit gothic and I've just had it wrong. My wheels dug into this thing. This is a good yarn actually, and my bike stabbed banging against the side of this when I had a tank bag on the motorcycle that jumped off, went down to this river below, floating off. I was bettered when my colleague stopped run down tried to retrieve my stuff. They had my fairy tickets, my wallet, everything,

Yep, it's good.

Get down there. And there was a couple of dudes under the bridge there. There was an older guy and a young bloke almost web footed, and he said, ah whatever, and we're running after the thing. And he swung me up and got my bag back. God bless him come back and and he said what are you reackoning about? That's uncle Frank to the other guy and he said,

Of course the bike wasn't there make.

That bike was a one hundred GB five hundred Ye?

All right?

Did you get? He scrambled these days?

But it's luckily I haven't smashed it into any break.

There is another road. There's one on the there's a road rail bridge and Hindon and the on the Tirie Gorge railway. That's the other one that you might have come across on your way to Tura. Who did you come across that one?

And remember I think I might have Actually we did bit Yeah, so where.

I could hear crickets in the background.

Where are you Auckland? Auckland said, he mean this crickets and they've come under the hares.

The buggers buggers. Evening, Richard, it's Marcus welcome.

Yeah, hi, Marcus. You mentioned the new road that had opened today or yesterday. Why hasn't he got a toll moment?

Because I think they kicked up Bobbsey dying den the verk and they had meetings in their campaigned to the government and they didn't have the guts to do it.

Yeah.

But you see, Torona has two toll roads. Hamilton has the expressway and there's no toll on that. Auckland has one in the north. I think there's a toll on that. But down here in toront we are two.

Yeah. So you asked me why, and I told you they might best understand that's why they kicked up and might be a bad I think there's four toll roads in the country.

Three one, two, three, I think, and we're going to get the fourth one with the toe Roung Northern Link. It just seems very very unfair that we're going to end up with three, Auckland one and nowhere else.

Has a toll road.

You could move to denner Vig.

I have thought about moving, certainly have my boy. Yeah, yeah, it's a possibility. Yeah, but just just interested in my Okay. They kicked up the sync.

Anyway, Yeah, that's why, and that's my saying. They kicked up a real stink. It was quite big on talkback as well. Owen good evening, Oh goody, hi, hi, Owen.

I was talking about the rail is the subject is rail.

Oh, the subject is all over the show tonight. But there was some discussion about rail and I see the Southerner will ever come back because there's no point to.

It all right.

Well E Cam was looking at a possible commuter system between Rangiora and Rollinster. Needs interesting track and they want to get it done within the next couple of years. The problem with that is a lot of the track is single and on the northern line, going through some of the richest suburbs Spendleton, you've only got a single track next to a bike path and they were talking

Railway had still it with remote signaling, couldn't you. I don't know, okay.

I was looking reading up the history of railways in christ Church and it was quite a system of track. They went to a little river, they went to Leaston, Southbridge, they went to Oxford, they went everywhere and they just ripped them up and I just thought, well, why in the resource that would have been.

And not only did they rip them up on that, when the quake happened in christ Church, which was a great chance to rebuild, and they completely blew it. I remember speaking to the guy interviewing them who was behind the whole rebuilding of the NBC of christ Church, And the problem was, I don't think they had any idea or any faith in what they were doing. I don't think they realized how big christ Church was going to become.

Well, the biggest mistake they made was moving the rail station. It was then moving the Northern line onto the main South when it used to connect to the Middleton line. Yeah, the stakes have been made and that's because of previous national governments doing this.

Or because we know in the national governments are always very much supported by the road Transport Lobby.

Yes, definitely, there's so many trucks on the road, especially when you're going to say, through Kaikoura, through what's the path that goes past hand the springs. Yes, trucks. Virtually a convoy of trucks. Billions of dollars spent on the city rail loop in Auckland. Well that could have been spent.

Oh, don't get me wrong now, and that's a worthwhile thing. That's a great thing that's going to revolutionize Auckland. The thing is you can do both, Marcus, are we tippit? During the construction of the Tiahu Turanga the MNUA two Tallada Highway, workers on earthed moa bones. The discovery was made in twenty twenty one during excavation work. The bones, belonging to at least two smaller mora are found, along

Yeah, good, Marcus has tiva the West coast here. Listen, I live in christ Church. But you know when they run the Coast to Coast. It goes to Graymouth and it stops at Graymouth for three hours or four hours, and then they get on the train again. And then they go through Mowana and you know Lake Brunner.

Through Tira.

There's there's a railway line from Graymouth to Hoker Ticker and it goes over the Tira Macair which is another bridge. It's got a railway line in it. And then they go down to Errahua, you know, getting towards Hoker Ticker and there's another one there. But I don't know why the railways don't run the Coast to Coast to Hoka Ticker. You know, Hoka Ticket is a more lovely place than Graymouth for tourists because you can go and do a

I think, I think, I think the problem with the Transalpine, right is those people go from christ Church to Greymouth and Beck in the day. It's a really long day. Yeah, I know, but that's the trouble with it. And by the way, with those bridges you mentioned, right, yeah, they are now separate. They're not road rail bridges anymore.

Aren't they.

No, I thought that, Tira mckel No, No, it's all they're all separate now.

Oh well, that's better because I.

Remember it used to be on that movie Goodbye pork Pie. I think it was on that and the train came down there on that. Yeah, and that was a legendary kind of scene. Harry Harry, Yeah, great movie. Ye, that's that you're.

Yeah, No, I'm on board and bred West Coaster.

But it sounds like it sounds like you should get back there.

I am. I'm going back. I'm going to go bush them and build a log cabin in the bush and a lifestyle.

When are you going to do it?

TV?

Oh, well, there's not many years left in me now. But I used to work for the Dominion Brewers and gray Mouth, Yeah, and I used to go. I do the pubs from Kramere to hast Wow, and it was them and good because.

You paint all you paint all the pubs.

Yeah. I do the maintenance on the pubs. Yep.

How many would they be between hast Well? They all dB pubs or their Lion pubs as well.

Well, there was TB hast Hotel and I did thirty five motel units, plus the managers, plus the main bar. And I used to go down with the tanker driver, you know, so we'd I'll leave about five o'clock in the morning from Graymouth and go south and he'd he'd have a tanker and he'd have keys, and he'd also have a trailer of created beer and we'd stop him. I'll give him a hand and it used to be a good little trip and we'd see all the publicans.

You know. How many pubs would you be looking for? How many pubs would you be looking after Caramere and Hearst.

Oh, you'd be looking at hope to take a the Greyhound there are tearing a care it would be probably fifteen pubs.

What a great job.

Yeah, and I loved it. I loved it. I meet all the Republicans, and you know, it was that sort of atmosphere with the people, at least the d V hotels that you know, you've got a real friendship with them.

Hey, t Bow and you might find this, you might find this interesting. Someone's just texted me. Apparently the Graymouth Hoker tick A Branch railway line is not passenger certified, isn't it.

I always thought that because they always yes to have petrol tankers and timber on it on you know.

I think I think mainly now it's butter at stuff coming from the West West Country deer. That's money. Yeah, that's you're.

Onto it, and that that that does praises the West Coast and their dairy products.

Yeah, Okay, good on your TVO. Nice to hear from you, Thanks very much. About thirteen past eleven. There we go. That's how it's done. Let's be hearing from you if you want to be a part of the show. Here till midnight tonight, oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty and nine to nine text if you want to come through and yeah, once again, the Southerner railway is on the news because someone's promoting to bring that back. As

Is it?

Coffee, butter, chocolate, olive oil? Marcus. I'll be on the road tomorrow. I'm trying to mar here. I'll try and tune in Sarah. Thank you, Sarah. If you want to talk on hear Marcus till midnight tonight. How's it all going? I really thought t Bone was going to name every pub between Carameir and Hearst. Thought I could have done better than them. He didn't get fat Toty. Seemed like it'd be quite a good job for t Bone doing up pubs. Brilliant. Apparently someone taxi is a paper hanger

Yeah?

Interesting, I wonder what the price of railway sleepers was because a while there that everyone was redoing their gardens with the railway sleepers, weren't they That was a great thing. That's a dugable, all those railway lines in the eighties and the seventies, and there must have been garden centers full of railway seeds. Now they're very hard to get

Hi Marcus. I just wanted to talk about one of my favorite programs on TV. Yes, I'm hearing yourself on the radio. I can't reach down there. I'll lose my hot water bottle if I do.

Okay, well I can see that set up now, yep.

God, And it's absolutely and today was one of the best this evening. It's a better fellow called Drew Pritchard.

Oh you Drew and Tea.

Oh yeah, well they had.

Love it, love it.

Oh got on you, got on you. I know there's another man somewhere. He couldn't something went wrong with the programs a couple of weeks ago, and and he but anyway, Oh it's exquisite. And some of the houses they visits, and but this was all about he picked up these beautiful antiques. God go into these big fancy houses, and he says wildly as a fox. He knows exactly what he's doing. But it's so engaged, you know, every the whole thing.

Although I am I am reading somewhere that he's lost all his money. Drew brought some big flesh house to try and renovate and it didn't work out for him. Now I know. Yeah, it's hard to know, because it's hard to know. If you're seeing a current of an old TV series, I can never keep up. Sometimes I've seen them before. It's always quite complicated. But yeah, I wouldn't mind it a bit more of an update what's happening, because for a while their tea wasn't there on the show that he was back of it.

Wasn't he Yes, so I noticed that, and somebody else was. And then those guys he has working for him that do out all that, they're just you know, it's just the whole, the whole thing. And of course you see all the countryside. But no, this has been in front.

A huge I've learned a huge amount from watching that show. All the old manufacturing places it's that, of course, don't but it's an amazing it's amazing look into the history of industrial Britain as well, because you see all the old factories and woolen factories. It is extraordinary. I love it.

Some of them are still going. And he you know, and he.

Knows so much.

But I know, I'm so glad, but you know, I sit there and watch it. But no, I wouldn't have missed that tonight for quick.

No, No, what channel? What channel's that on?

Mere?

Channel?

Was that on?

Mary?

What was it?

Must have been one? I think?

No, okay, I'll keep it on that, thank you, Mary, Jared, It's Marcus welcome.

Sheldon Marcus, second time.

Caller Jared to hear from here again.

Yep.

Early this year I moved from Auckland to christ Church Great and so main reason I did it was just for a change of lifestyle. I was in Auckland twenty seven years, which is too long for anybody to live there.

Are you are you? Are you older than twenty seven?

I'm a lot older than twenty seven.

Okay, yep, okay, I understand, yep.

Yeah.

And so I was struggling an often for a few years, and I knew I needed to make some changes, but I had trouble just working out what to do and how to do it. And so I did it. In February. I finished my full time job and I started to get my house ready to go into the market, and I found a townhouse to rent here in christ Church, and so I moved down in February. It's just me. I'm single with no kids. The cat flew down with me and she's down here with me, and yeah, it's

Was I think it takes two I think it takes two years to get used to the climate change.

Okay, yeah that sounds of that, right. Yeah, so this is this one my first experience of the cold winter, and yeah, we'll see how it goes from here.

Did you sell the house at Upland, Jared?

Yep, it's sold a few weeks after I moved down.

Because that's quite a fun Did you think twice about that? Do you think maybe I'm not going to sell it until I've made the decision, because then you can't go back.

Or I changed my mind so many times about selling the house. How am I going to do this? Should I find a job first somewhere and then sell the house or do it pretty much the opposite way, And so it's a bit of a risk. But how also quite quickly, I didn't get a great price for it, but I did it to move on with my life, not to get this price for it. So yeah, it's all working out quite well. I've just got to find a job now, but.

It people in christ Church.

I've got family here.

Yep, yep? Is it we originally? Is it we're usually from?

No?

Is it?

No?

I've only ever lived in totng and Auckland.

Yeah, okay, okay, well yes.

I've got my older brother here and my two nieces, so it's really cool to be able to spend more time with my nieces and my brother.

Yeah. And do you think do you think it's a permanent move for you?

Oh?

Hard to say, but I'm happy here for now, so yeah. Yeah, time will tell.

And you'll know when you're settled, because then when you go to leave, you won't want to. That'll be the thing that's the tail a you think, Oh, well that I'm happy here. Nice to hear from you, Jared, thank you, ha past eleven it's called it that janets Marcus welcome, Hi dam Marcus.

Hi.

I love Drew's program as well.

Yeah.

I think I actually prefer it to that that sentimental garbage. What do they call that? That the repair shop? I always think that's a bit too mawkish.

Oh no, I like that one. Sorry, it's a bit sad because they hold my stoorways cry.

That seems a bit. That seems about heart stringing to me. I'm not into that.

Oh you're a funny boys.

Now.

Yes. The other my other favorite program is Saturdays and Sundays and I think it's Channel eight name as Drew's program on Saturday and Sunday, and it's about the family in North Yorkshire Moors in their house. They've got about six children in this little cottage and it's so oh so, it's like it's the best story I've ever heard. It's just so beautiful and the children growing up on the farm and oh are they are?

Are they off the grid? Are they without power?

I don't know. They've never sort of talked about that.

What's it called?

I don't know that either. I never seemed to get the beginning of the program. I just sort of happened by it. But it's in the afternoon Chanel eight.

Yeah, it's not called Happy not called Happy Valley.

Is it?

No?

Our Yorkshire farm?

Yeah, that Yorkshire farm.

Our Yorkshire farm is at it?

Yeah, so you didn't know, Well it's in Yorkshire. It's a farm Yorkshire where I used to live.

No, you don't know.

I don't know. You traveled.

Oh, Y's been all over the place, lived in all sorts of countries.

What took you to Yorkshire?

Well, they've got a chop with the Lord and the Lady Earl of Mispra their cart on Blue Chef and they're looking after their six children.

They don't need much do They just eat sort of cheese on crackers, don't they the blue Bloods?

No three course meal, three every meal?

Like what like what stuff would they eat like beef Wellington or something?

They might have done once? But it was all called on blue That was my that was my specialty. So I was hired as a called on Blue Chef and so the children were school boarding school most of the time, but when they came home from school I had to sort of supervise them as well and fell in love with the oldest son. Him and I had a lovely time when he was home, right, And yeah it was in mister Castle, great, big huge. Then, Yeah, that sounds like.

That would have made a good TV series. That's that's what about a.

Good were you?

Were you in your Were you in your twenties?

Then?

Yeah?

Early twenties?

Wow?

You want did it end?

Well?

Yeah? Oh well I was only supposed to work for three months because then it gets really cold and they go overseas, of course, and when it's cold and it gets snoweded. So but I ended up being there for seven months, and then you know it wasn't I couldn't stay on because they were going off on holiday. So wonderful seven months of my life, I tell you.

Do they not take a cart? Do they not take a cart on blue Cheft when they go on holiday?

No? All the hot places and keep warm?

Now, now, jan before I cut you off, what's your shopping at Farmer's story?

Yes, so we went there today and trying to find some warm tights, you know, made from wool or.

Thick hard to get these days.

No, they had them. I brought them home. I bought about four or five peers, got them home and unpackaged them, and I could hardly you wouldn't get your one leagon and so tight, and they were the they had I think they were called the extra tall and tighters. And it cut your circulation after sure, but not that tight.

Could you sort of could you sort of just slowly get yourself into them over a course of time?

No, No, had cut your circulation off far too tight.

Maybe you need maybe you need leg warmers.

No, I got them from the warehouse and no words. It's all elastic, no hated.

You might you might need to get back on the needles, Jan, Well.

I might sew, so if I can thread the needle on my sewing machine. Anyway. I also bought what I thought was some togs and the sail and I get them home and they've got no bottom skirt, no crutch, no bottom notes.

Where would you be wearing that? Where are you thinking of going swimming in those?

You wouldn't want to be a bit rude, brilliant.

Well, that's a lot of that information called but lost the words with that one, Jan.

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