The actress said climbing the53 metres to the platform they were occupying was well out of her comfort zone and the toilet arrangements were interesting to say the least.
The eco-warrior princess says she would rather be at home with her three kids but was protesting to save the planet for future generations.
Hear, hear, I say. Drilling in deep water, or freezing temperatures, is fraught with environmental hazards and should not be allowed.
As we in the Bay of Plenty know, oil is a killer - of creatures, of ecosystems and of businesses.
The Rena should have shown our leaders that even relatively small amounts of oil - such as the 1500-odd tonnes that ruined Papamoa for months - are destructive and costly to clean up.
And yet, they are allowing deep-sea exploration off New Zealand's East Cape. An oil blow-out there, as happened in the Gulf of Mexico, would cripple New Zealand's tourism and fishing industries.
And for what? Short-term gain.
Anyway, I digress, I should have been climbing up the drilling ship's tower taking pictures of Lawless. If only the blasted vessel had been in Tauranga.
Never mind, I'll get over it.
Somehow. Sometime.
Well done Lucy, you've lived up to your surname, and you've made Shell more than a little Xena-phobic.
ONLY in the sooky West could a convicted rapist get the chance to waste taxpayers' money by suing the Corrections Department because he had to sleep on a thin mattress and could only use a small towel.
Ohhhh, there there.
Poor widdle Nicholas Reekie wants $1 million out of us because, while he is on preventative detention for 31 charges, including abduction and rape, the guards are being vewwy mean to him.
Reekie also says he was forced to eat dry sandwiches and didn't have enough loo paper to use.
Now here is where the Justice Minister needs to step in and say enough is enough.
Reekie and his ilk do not deserve soft treatment while serving time for their crimes. In many countries he would have been executed.
Shame that doesn't happen here.
WHEN will personalities learn that when you make comments in public - even at a private function - then there is a chance things will be reported.
The latest person who thinks he's above the plebs is He Who Finally Won the Rugby World Cup at his Second Go - Sir Graham Henry.
Now Sir G has been touring the country yakking about the triumph, which I'm sure is very thrilling for all concerned, but at his latest event in Napier he ended up being quoted in Hawke's Bay Today.
Sir G was very unimpressed about being quoted as saying if he hadn't won the cup then "I would have been in the south of France smoking marijuana and drinking red wine".
He added: "I would still have the same woman ... nobody else would have me."
Sir G was so miffed because he had asked that there be no reporters at the $120-a-head function.
You know Sir G, those comments only make you look human, rather than a surly old headmaster.
Anyway, what will you sue over? The fact you drink red wine? Joked you smoked dope? (There's no way that visage has ever cracked in a drug-induced eyewatering, pant-wetting fit of the giggles!)
Chill out, mon, and pass da bong.
richard@richardmoore.com
