puff 552 Thursday 28th

Peter Cleave at the London


Peter Cleave on guitar and vocals at the London on George Street Palmerston North- Fridays and Saturdays 6- 8.30pm. The London is one of New Zealand's best restaurants. Come and eat. The gig goes into its second month. It started with a show called Peter Cleave aqnd the British Invasion to go with the theme of the London. Beatles, Stones, Van Morrison and the like and it carries on from there.

Saying of the week
Its not those who inflict the most who will win but those who endure the most
Who said this? Did it come from Ireland asks a reader.


Thursday 28th

Te Ao Toi

Kaupapa koorero moo te raa nei
He aha te tino pikitia Maori o ngaa waa katoa? He aha ai?

Rangahau

Subject of the day
Analysis
What is the best Maori movie of all time? Why?
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Maori Unpacked continued
14

Naming and Doing

Standing back and looking at what has been unpacked...
A naming phrase or a noun phrase starts with te, nga or he.

te refers to a singular thing.

te mahi. the work, the activity

nga refers to more than one thing, to things plural,

nga mahi, the works, activities

nga is said long as in ngaa but written short

Nga mahi a nga tuupuna.
The deeds of the ancestors.

he is the indefinite article. It means a or some

he mahi, a work, a deed, an activity

he mahi, some works, deeds, activities

In Maori a word can be a noun or a verb, a naming word or a doing word, depending on what comes before it

Ka mahi au i te mahi.
I do the work.

Ka mahi is a verbal phrase introduced by ka.

Te mahi is a nominal phrase introduced by te.







There is even a way to make a naming word that involves some doing.

Say we talked about the doing or the making.. We could use the word mahinga.
This is a gerund, we will have you know! Its a bit of a verb and a bit of a noun, a verbal noun you might say.

Mahi- work plus -nga, an ending for the gerund. The gerund always ends in nga, sometimes on its own and sometimes with more before the nga as with -tanga, -ranga, -hanga , -kanga or -manga.

Sometimes the gerund is an -ing word like mahinga- making, doing

Sometimes it is a -ness word
poouri, sad
poouritanga, sadness

Hei tauira, for example

aahua
form

aahuatanga
likeness

maatau
to know

maatauranga
knowledge

hopu
seize, snatch

hopukanga, snatching
Te hopukanga o te koura
The snatching of the gold

Is that enough mahi for the moment?

Isis: the dancing tramp by Benjamin Drum continues
Part Sixteen
Strange Punters indeed

Astor charges about snapping at flies. There are plenty around the picnic. It is high summer after all. Again it is time for strawberries and cream on the Isis. Life could be a lot worse.

The Tramp sits in the middle of a little sea of food, hampers and cloths. He is slowly recovering from his ordeal. People tiptoe around him. They still don't understand what happened, let alone the background.

He is content to sit back and watch proceedings as if from a great distance. He has been so shocked that some of the conditioning that he had gone through at the hands of Torturer in the first place is now starting to become undone.

Sam made a vegan meal especially. She is not sure whether its quite the Tramp's thing but she is determined to give it a go. Simon and Sam take bets on who will and who won't like it.

Esme and Bella made a salad. She used fresh lettuce and herbs grown outside the Boathouse. There were also tomatoes from Italy and cucumbers from Spain.

The Guv opened the Garden Bar, the Tramp usually being excluded from this area. People sat about and reflected on life in the sun. The subjects of kidnapping, brainwashing and that sort of thing were scrupulously avoided.

Paullie came up from London. He had a cheque for Simon. No questions to be asked but the Tramp was to be looked after. And the Don. Where was the Don? Lost in Cambridge somewhere from what people could make out. People in this case being Simon's mum.

There was a major surprise. Paullie had Giselle with him. She had flown in from Texas via Trinidad. Simon was aghast. It hit him that giselle was part of the family now. Simon's mum treated Giselle like an alien. Sam couldn't get it at all and just talked more.

People partied. Because there were several elephants in the room and so mush that could not be mentioned they talked about strawberries, punts, minutiae.

Across the Isis Walter stood, coat collar turned up, was watching. He nodded to the angler who was in place, casting a line. Walter had a line himself on Giselle.

Simon was none the wiser. It was as though Isis Investigations had never engaged in the case. But he had a cheque, it was good to see his Dad, the Tramp and the Don were back in place and life went on along the Isis.

Simon thought back to the start of the case when Esme and Bella first came to him. This had been a very disturbing case, very dark and very strange. No question, he thought, strange punters on the river did stand out.