Comments on: Hamiltoff http://www.robyngallagher.com/2008/11/23/hamiltoff/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hamiltoff Adventures in words and web Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:20:53 +0000 hourly 1 By: Robyn http://www.robyngallagher.com/2008/11/23/hamiltoff/comment-page-1/#comment-10860 Robyn Sat, 29 Nov 2008 11:10:18 +0000 http://www.robyngallagher.com/?p=1682#comment-10860 Paul: They should include a cheese and butter option. I would have that. Stephen: Yah, I used to defend Hamilton too. It wasn't a terrible place to grown up in, and the '90s were particularly good for me. I guess that's why it's so much more painful to see how empty it's become. My favourite verse of the policeman song is the one where "oink" is repeated to the tune. Genius. Paul: They should include a cheese and butter option. I would have that.

Stephen: Yah, I used to defend Hamilton too. It wasn’t a terrible place to grown up in, and the ’90s were particularly good for me. I guess that’s why it’s so much more painful to see how empty it’s become.

My favourite verse of the policeman song is the one where “oink” is repeated to the tune. Genius.

]]> By: Stephen http://www.robyngallagher.com/2008/11/23/hamiltoff/comment-page-1/#comment-10859 Stephen Sat, 29 Nov 2008 10:09:23 +0000 http://www.robyngallagher.com/?p=1682#comment-10859 Yes, you've captured what's gone wrong with Hamilton very well. I harangue Dad about it when I visit, but he likes it. He has a car, he's retired and he likes a suburban existence. What kind of snooty so and so would force people to live in ways they don't like? Sometimes you talk to people who miss the towns they grew up in. I sort of envy those people. The only thing I miss about Hamilton is the ability to grow a good vegetable garden. A lot of good things happened to me in Hamilton (and not a few bad things) and I will defend it out of loyalty, but I really feel when I go back to visit that there is, as they say, no _there_ there. The place is run by crony developers and their mates who have no more vision than ever more subdivisions on the fringe - that's why it's "developed" the way it has. Auckland and Wellington suck away the people with ambitions for better things. After we first left Hamilton, I used to tell people how mistaken they were about its dullness and monotony. Now I agree with them. Also: I just sang "I'm a policeman dressed in blue" to myself. Yes, you’ve captured what’s gone wrong with Hamilton very well. I harangue Dad about it when I visit, but he likes it. He has a car, he’s retired and he likes a suburban existence. What kind of snooty so and so would force people to live in ways they don’t like?

Sometimes you talk to people who miss the towns they grew up in. I sort of envy those people. The only thing I miss about Hamilton is the ability to grow a good vegetable garden.

A lot of good things happened to me in Hamilton (and not a few bad things) and I will defend it out of loyalty, but I really feel when I go back to visit that there is, as they say, no _there_ there.

The place is run by crony developers and their mates who have no more vision than ever more subdivisions on the fringe – that’s why it’s “developed” the way it has. Auckland and Wellington suck away the people with ambitions for better things. After we first left Hamilton, I used to tell people how mistaken they were about its dullness and monotony. Now I agree with them.

Also: I just sang “I’m a policeman dressed in blue” to myself.

]]> By: Paul Litterick http://www.robyngallagher.com/2008/11/23/hamiltoff/comment-page-1/#comment-10623 Paul Litterick Thu, 27 Nov 2008 01:43:54 +0000 http://www.robyngallagher.com/?p=1682#comment-10623 I was in Hamilton a couple of weekends ago, on the way back from Raglan. It was bleak. It rained, quite a lot. I visited the baked potato cart on Garden Place, because I had read (in a large Waikato Times feature) that it was threatened by new by-laws relating to the proposed redevelopment of said Place. The cart offered two vegetarian options: coleslaw and butter or coleslaw, cheese and butter. I suppose I should not extrapolate from this one example but it did seem to be a place lacking in imagination. I was in Hamilton a couple of weekends ago, on the way back from Raglan. It was bleak. It rained, quite a lot. I visited the baked potato cart on Garden Place, because I had read (in a large Waikato Times feature) that it was threatened by new by-laws relating to the proposed redevelopment of said Place. The cart offered two vegetarian options: coleslaw and butter or coleslaw, cheese and butter. I suppose I should not extrapolate from this one example but it did seem to be a place lacking in imagination.

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