Mapua Movies
Hi, all Packhouse Cinema goers, and to any new people who think they might like to go to the movies which we’ve been showing for the last 6+ years
This time, we plan to show the movie "Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont" on Sunday, 21st August at 6.30 pm in the Mapua Community Hall. Bring your own chair and drinks etc if you wish, but please be prepared to stay in your own bubble, with a wee space between you and the next bubble
Some of us go to the Sprig & Fern for a meal at around 5pm, and there will be a table reserved for any who would like to join us.
We have some excellent movies planned for coming winter, and this will be the first one for this year. So, we look forward to seeing you there. We have all missed the monthly occasion and all of you.
All income from this event will go towards the Mapua Community Hall!
Cheers,
Di& Peter, Reinhard & Angelika
Mrs. Palfrey (Joan Plowright) is a recently widowed English woman of independent means who decides to move to a small London hotel she saw advertised in a newspaper in Scotland. As so often happens the picture in the newspaper was much better than the reality she discovers upon her arrival! One of the things that had most attracted Mrs. Palfrey was the promise of enjoying some fine English cuisine. Something the taxi driver transporting her to her new home finds extremely amusing.
‘The Claremont’ turns out to be a crumbling old edifice that serves as a retirement home for a small, weird, but fascinating group of tenants: Once settled into her barely navigable room, Mrs. Palfrey meets her fellow 'inmates' at dinner and announces she has a doting grandson who will be calling on her at times. Yet despite multiple attempts her self-centred grandson Desmond (Lorcan O'Toole) doesn't respond and Mrs. Palfrey realizes she has ended up moving into a world of loneliness.
But then Mrs. Palfrey meets Ludovic when she has a fall on the sidewalk in front of his apartment. "Ludo" as he wants to be called is a busker - a young man who sings in the underground in exchange for coins thrown into his guitar case. Trying to be kind to Ludo she invites him for dinner at the Claremont and asks him to pretend he is her missing in action grandson. This proves to be the beginning of a happy and uncomplicated friendship between a woman at the end of her life and a young man just beginning his.
🧩😏 Riddle me this, Neighbours…
I am an odd number. Take away a letter and I become even. What number am I?
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Labour Party Hypocrisy
Well, here we go again. More Labour Party hypocrisy.
Just as Labour MP Rachel Boyack has cried crocodile tears over National not building the promised new Nelson hospital when Labour had promised (showing both how little a Labour promise is worth and the hypocrisy of their tears) to get the hospital started before their term ended we now have Deputy Prime Minister Seymour calling for the Air New Zealand shares owned by the government to be sold.
Now that is to be expected given Seymour’s party policies but what is astounding is Labour’s finance spokesperson Barbara Edmonds comments in response.
She tells us Air New Zealand is critical national infrastructure and the Government should not be selling its shares.
Very good, but wait. Labour has clearly (and conveniently) ‘forgotten’ which party privatised Air New Zealand.
In 1989, the Labour Government sold Air New Zealand into private ownership. The sale transferred the airline from being a fully state owned national carrier to a privately owned company. The sale was part of a broader wave of Labour privatisations, also including:
• Telecom (1990)
• New Zealand Steel (1987)
• PostBank (1988)
Labour may well have built state houses for working people (not just beneficiaries like Ardern’s government) in the 1930’s but what have they done since? Very, very little other than to ride on that one good thing ever since and, as we are seeing again and again approaching this election, spent most of their time practicing their hypocrisy. Remember the Kiwibuild promise?
If you want truth in politics beware Labour.
Some Choice News!
DOC is rolling out a new tool to help figure out what to tackle first when it comes to protecting our threatened species and the things putting them at risk.
Why does this matter? As Nikki Macdonald from The Post points out, we’re a country with around 4,400 threatened species. With limited time and funding, conservation has always meant making tough calls about what gets attention first.
For the first time, DOC has put real numbers around what it would take to do everything needed to properly safeguard our unique natural environment. The new BioInvest tool shows the scale of the challenge: 310,177 actions across 28,007 sites.
Now that we can see the full picture, it brings the big question into focus: how much do we, as Kiwis, truly value protecting nature — and what are we prepared to invest to make it happen?
We hope this brings a smile!
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