To contact Alf Grumble email him. He welcomes laudatory messages but although committed to robust debate is apt to turn tetchy when his views are challenged.
To contact Alf Grumble email him. He welcomes laudatory messages but although committed to robust debate is apt to turn tetchy when his views are challenged.
jeeze boyo you are only up the road and round the corner from rangitumau. Nice blog… welcome to the VRWC
The local tip is closing next year due to expiring constent so there will be no where local to take any rubbish or recycling ,so costs will explode
Oops – I’ve been a bit slack in dealing with this. I was thinking about buying a skip and leaving it somewhere handy within the electorate. Locals could have dumped their rubbish in it, and each week I would have hauled it to Wellington to be emptied on the Green seats in the debating chamber. But getting the skip past Parliament’s eagle-eyed security guards seemed to be an insurmountable problem. Look what happened when my mate Shane Ardern tried getting his tractor up the steps of Parliament. Let’s just say I’m keeping eye on this one.
Hi Alf, nice article regarding The Bakshi brothel beat-up – you hit it on the nail – keep up the good work!!
You can be sure the good work will be kept up, because all my work is good work and I am not ready to retire. But thanks a lot for your kind words. You are obviously a bloke with a splendid sense of what is good and what is crap.
Whats your opinion of the Fiji Debarcle – does he have a right to assert authority or is he just a bully?
I think the commodore had good intentions about cleaning up matters – in the electoral system and with corruption – that cried out for attention. His ends are admirable – the means he has chosen to reach them are not.
Is this a serious article? I find it interesting that you are compelled to write an article, first indicating that all unemployed in Porirua are Maori and secondly getting your knickers in a twist over correct usage of a language that you are ignorant to.
Let me remind you, the alphabetisation of the Maori language occured so that ignorant Pakeha could actually pronounce it, Maori didn’t need this alphabet, and in that sense once again we are in a position to place Macrons on a the language so that the ignorant Pakeha can pronounce it properly.
Instead of writing useless articles on a language you seem to have little knowledge of, perhaps you should learn something useful, like another language and then you may grow some respect for something else other than your articles
I presume you refer to my post on macron mania in Porirua. If this be so, you draw a long bow when you say I was claiming that all unemployed in Porirua are Maori. I said no such thing (but if you insist that’s what I did say, then regard this as a clarification). As for getting my knickers in a twist over anything, sorry, but I don’t wear knickers. Good old jockeys for me.
Hey, I just started reading your blog – thanks for the good work. As an FYI that it’s not displaying properly on the BlackBerry Browser (I have a Tour). Anyway, I am now subscribed to your RSS feed on my home PC, so thanks again!
I think you’re missing the point on Pat Norris completely, he filmed his cheating wife which I think far outways the fact he caught her on film without her knowledge. Boo Hoo the poor innocent victimised wife, I applaud Norris’s actions, shame the skank.
Kia ora Alf,
Would you have contact details for Te Whanau O Hamiora Mangakahia.
We have just recently received information that they are claiming kaitiaki status over the Kermedec Islands.
Ngati Kuri is one of the Northern most tribes of Muriwhenua, and we have close historical ties to the kermedec Islands and have placed a pou-whenua on the Island some years ago.
hi alf i’m one of the woman so called known to police and all the other names that my daughter and myself have been called in the press, i aprreciated reading your support sincerly as the story dictated was mostly out of oontext, we are facing 6 to 12 months of court hearings and hefty fines or imprisonment this is ridiculous we had nothing against cyclists at that stage cheers and thankyou again tracey
Thanks for your approval … let us know your address and we’ll send you some of fantastic new brew to sample.
Hi Alf,
You got a great blog here and perhaps you should next time in the near future write up a blog article about the issue of people who abuse the student loan system and refuse to pay it all back.
Thanks for the kind words and for the tip. Alf will keep an eye on the issue.
Alf,Your email address is not working;
Hi Alf, I came across your blog the other day whilst doing some research, an excellent read.
I have just completed building a website today, called Kiwis United – http://kiwisunited.com/ and have added one of your pages into the mix. I hope you don’t mind, credits included, and placed a link to your blog in our site links.
We would appreciate more of your refreshing articles if that is a possibility.
Best Regards
Alf has no objection. All of his articles, of course, are refreshing.
Hi Alf
I wrote a comment on one of your blogs that I was wanting to edit. Is this possible?
Email Alf to let him know which comment you want edited, and the nature of the editing you require, and Mrs Grumble (if she is in a good mood) will take care of it
Hello, Mr. Grumble. Can you write touch on this issue which is now in the news in regards to this: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10729337
Thanks
Yea gidday mate.
A while back you did a blog on lewis stirling. he stole a car around blenheim and drove it round town in a police chase. well seems he didn’t last long. Hes back in jail, thank goodness. Thought you might like to do another blog. Whats your thoughts on guns?
http://www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/news/5241840/Man-kept-in-custody-in-air-rifle-shooting-case
Alf is indifferent, when it comes to a view on guns. But he does have stong views – critical ones – about tossers who don’t respect guns or, worse, who put guns to criminal use.