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But of course ! Mobile phones are the devil’s plaything, and he was right there too – as we now…
Allegedly he also refused to own a mobile phone of any kind.
There’s a lovely memorial piece in the Post today, by Virginia Fallon. https://www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/360676000/bobs-bit-conversations-sir-robert-jones Her memories of Sir Robert echo mine…
I’m surprised that he wasn’t insisting on smoking his pipe ! No, that would have been bloody silly, even for…
He didn’t take aviation safety briefings very well either… “Sir Bob Jones was escorted off an Air New Zealand flight…
Bob also didn’t like to use a computer, and would either write a letter (with a feather quill on parchment…
Yes, but like much of what Bob said, that’s bullshit. Good design is good design, and award-winning design is good…
RIP Sir Bob. Never met him but my father worked on several of his Wellington buildings. One of his better…
“I’m presuming that the house rising out of the extensive green gardens is the Vatican Palace” Nope, notice the great…
Quite possibly the world’s longest ongoing example of development hell.
Shouldn’t columns just be straight up and down? A bit of entasis perhaps, some fluting would be nice, but twisted?…
For sheer gilded madness, it’s hard to beat St John’s Co-Cathedral in Valetta, Malta.
“Lacking completely in any form of good taste, it really is totally over top.” A bit harsh, young nemo. Twisted…
Time for another visit Starkive !! I’ve heard that it has progressed by leaps and bounds in the last 2…
Meanwhile, the (prayer) wheels are turning to make Gaudi a saint… I have walked through the Segrada Familia twice -…
Post-script – apparently there was a Pope Joan, allegedly a woman who ruled as Pope for two years during the…
I was thinking about whether ladders and rings are enough, and you know what? They probably aren’t. When you fall…
Yes, although this is true in NZ, the situation varies from country to country. For instance, in France, apparently, the…
As I understand it, much of the quality control in the New Zealand construction industry is done by the Local…
Strangely enough, Jones refused to hire accountants. Just another one of his many contradictions, but then again, quasi-libertarians like him…