tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2131514811483888026.post4544404548760308146..comments2024-01-26T20:41:02.065+13:00Comments on Quote Unquote: What I’m readingStephen Stratfordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00426799380228308536noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2131514811483888026.post-350638876423308812012-03-16T18:21:37.841+13:002012-03-16T18:21:37.841+13:00Thanks Stephen! It's ridiculously fat I know -...Thanks Stephen! It's ridiculously fat I know - some serious displacement activity going on - but it's proving an effective calling card here at the Leipzig book fair.Fergusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2131514811483888026.post-49503936623481291792012-03-16T14:43:36.678+13:002012-03-16T14:43:36.678+13:00As I understand it they were offered separately an...As I understand it they were offered separately and as a job lot but offers came in for the job lot. They are not very attractive farms for a buyer because you'd have to do so much work and spend so much money bringing them up to scratch re effluent compliance etc. The farms are already overseas-owned, by banks, Westpac mostly, because the Crafars stuffed up so badly. See Home Paddock for a series of short accounts of the full story plus links to information.Stephen Stratfordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00426799380228308536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2131514811483888026.post-59326661214247377212012-03-16T13:39:40.031+13:002012-03-16T13:39:40.031+13:00Why were the Crafar farms not sold seperately? I k...Why were the Crafar farms not sold seperately? I know nothing about agriculture, but surely this would have meant that actual NZ farmers could have bought at least some of them?helenalexnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2131514811483888026.post-88377153482569239282012-03-15T20:24:06.830+13:002012-03-15T20:24:06.830+13:00Quite. The US transcription I stole this from had ...Quite. The US transcription I stole this from had it as "buttresses thrust up the chapel knave" which is even wronger. Also "barber jacket" in the first line. <br /><br />I wonder why there is no US equivalent of the Young Fogey.Stephen Stratfordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00426799380228308536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2131514811483888026.post-7788165158255794502012-03-15T19:05:49.272+13:002012-03-15T19:05:49.272+13:00The buttresses ought to be outside the nave to do ...The buttresses ought to be outside the nave to do their job properly, but otherwise a splendid work from the Divine Comedy.Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08024440694895271805noreply@blogger.com