Chalkeyes presents Slack times
At the end of the last column I was standing on a scaffolding five metres from the ground, getting a fresh coat of paint onto the roof and taking care to not
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David Slack
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You can see my house from here
I hate heights. Briefly, as a young man, I had no fear of them. I would happily get onto the roof, trailing cable from my valve radio and attach it to the TV aerial so I could pick up Radio Hauraki from Feilding in the daytime. The TV went out just as Dad was settling in after a hard day’s farming t
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Chalkeyes presents: A standard of living
I have never been an employer. I have been a boss to a team of employees, but if the wages aren’t coming from your own pocket, it’s a different thing, is it not? For the most part, I have only worked for the corporate kind of boss: the one who is spending someone else’s money. It was only my earlie
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