With all the media hype about a new flag for New Zealand I thought I would get involved in designing something that is a little more representative of who we are as people. Incidently, life would be more rewarding if the media were so excited about true journalism, the injustices of the world and my blog as they are about a silly new flag.

Anyway as I have said I wanted something that would represent us as New Zealanders. We have a British history so I have therfore kept the Union Jack in the corner. This also reminds us how far we have come as a nation.  However, our summer has been so poor I have yet to see the southern cross so I have got photoshop that out of the new design. In its place are pictures of the four pillars of New Zealand society – Beer, Sport, Beach and Sheep. To ensure that the Treay of Waitangi is acknowledge in my flag, my picture of a beach doubles as a seabed and foreshore.

While these four pictures represent our pillars, what draws all New Zealanders together is our dislike of Australia and Australian. Therefore, I have put a statement from one of our previous Prime Ministers that will certainly draw all New Zealanders together.  As a sportsman I could think of nothing more inspiring than reading those words before an important sporting contest.

A New Zealand hedge trimming company has struck a gold mine by diversifying their product into what they call ‘extreme clipping’. Usually just resorting to trimming hedges with a hedge trimmer the company was forced [...read more...]