Lovely shot of you both, Liz! What an honour to have rubbed shoulders with Him.

...Diamond Harbour, very nice. I once spent a lovely three weeks holiday there in a borrowed bach with a lady. Long, warm evenings. Glorious walks along the sparkling shore. Day trips to Akaroa. It's idyllic, really.

Has there been much development in the last ten years? New stores, or is it still sleepy?

Alas Ross, I've now left Geraldine for the sunny waters of Diamond Harbour, so I guess the pickings for you are getting slimmer

Liz, actually, I meant your face, nose included. Your profile reminded me of Virginia Madsen. And, yes, by "they", I assumed you meant your breasts... but a gentleman always makes sure.

Mark, as I said, a gentleman always makes sure. No wonder the women of Geraldine head for Timaru when they hunger for true romance...

[Ross, you've got to get out of Timaru mate, I think you're going blind ]

"A very vivacious profile indeed."

I presumed you did not mean my nose.
They=Breasts.

"Ross, yes you may be so bold. They and I thank you."

I'm pretty thick: "they"?

is clearly a fascinating man. I do hope he comes to NZ someday so that I can get a picture of me next to him - although I suspect I might not be able to help myself from planting a big smooch right on his ample cheek. (One upmanship you see dear Liz) No, really, sometimes I just get over-zested and act before I've had time to think whether it's appropriate or not!

We've wondered before what sort of philosophy he holds dear. I suspect he's a Nietzschean, but I'm just guessing. I'd really like to know.

I think he and Lindsay would get on tremendously... and if anyone could bring Christopher round to Objectivism, he could. Fellow ex-Marxists and all.

Ross, yes you may be so bold. They and I thank you.

You little Minxette... that's MY man!

Claudia, we are just getting to know each other and you're already picking a cat fight!
Thanks for the flattery. Christopher raises the bar in person- way better looking(intense blue eyes), somewhat rakish like Ross said, a gentleman and most important passion. His talent is tremendous but, it is a shame he isn't an Objectivist. The throngs were just waiting for an alternative to religion for the fountainhead of their values (a main point of D'Souza's argument), and Christopher basically said it was innate. Which was not good or correct enough. Although, when we were outside and someone asked that same question, he said to look to philosophy for the answer-so there is hope.

And Linz, I'd bet my being dead to you also, that he prefers the ladies and would prefer Claudia's chest to yours. But with your infallible radar one never
should gamble should they.

PS. I have had posting problems with Safari-only now able to post?

Ficklety, thy name is Lindsay!

It changes every day.

Grace? I though it was Matty he was to elope with?!

You are dead to me. As nothing in my eyes.

Lord Soprano. Whatayagonnado?

He's all yours Grace! Too sensitive for me.

You are dead to me. As nothing in my eyes. Lord Baron does not dance with slappers. All that drooling over my breasts ... just leading me on.

CHRISTOPHER!

And I bet HE'D think that I was more handsome than you too.
AND I bet he'd like MY chest better than yours.

If you now look like Sam I'll not even need to go straight for you.

But I need to know: whom do you consider more handsome—me or Christopher?

I thought you were getting ready to run off with Grace... you fickle beast. But I have had my hair chopped REALLY short... Infact, on the weekend, someone commented how much I looked like Sam.

She's now in hospital.

...I'd call him rakish.

And, he knows which side of the Atlantic his bread is buttered on--ironically, former Marxists like he seem to grasp it more keenly than the chardonnay capitalists in our midst do--for despite America being impugned for supposedly holding a lower rung on the cultural wank-factor ladder than does Islamo-Europe, Hitchens recently took his oath of American citizenship at the magnificent Jefferson Memorial. Which is precisely where I'd take mine.

We hold these truths to be self-evi... oh, nevermind.

And I thought *I* was your man?! Just when I was ready to go straight for you??!!

He's a bit scruffy, which I rather like Claudia :)  And some of his footage on YouTube has certainly piqued my interest to dig deeper.

You little Minxette... that's MY man!

But what a great picture of the both of you. X

PS. I could tell from your avatar that you were that gorgeous! And isn't Christopher handsome? Sigh.

Recently finished "God Is Not Great" by Hitchens. Good to see an old Marxist come to his senses. Great wit and sarcasm.

And Liz, if I may be so bold, your avatar doesn't do you justice. A very vivacious profile indeed.

I appreciate it.

A photo as special as this deserves to be viewed at the right angle:

After many times of trying to get an image posted-I finally do and well... I throw my hands up at this photo business -sorry for the size and Hitchens and I are sideways??