Saturday Morning With Jack Tame

Before yesterday, I can honestly say I’d never heard the word grouse.   Well, actually that’s not true, I’d heard the word grouse. I knew it as a bird. As game for a hunter.   But I’d never heard it used in the slang form.   “It is grouse,” said Christchurch Mayor, Phil Mauger, as he cut the ribbon in his city’s brand new $683m stadium.   So long as you mean it’s excellent, I thought, then I’m with you Phil.   I was born and raised in Christchurch. I’ll always have an affection for the ‘03 that comes from having had a great childhood based in a place. It’s never been perfect, but it’ll always be home.   We could see the old stadium from our family home. The first time I was ever on TV was while sitting with my dad on the old embankment at Lancaster Park for a test between Pakistan and New Zealand in February 1994. The cameraman came and got a little cutaway shot of us, and the next day at school various people excitedly came to tell me.  There’s no doubting the new stadium i