Posts by Jolisa
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Busytown: “Glory! Glory! There’s the salt!”, in reply to Tamsin6,
A deep breath and a bit of a pretend cough…and back into it again.
We should start a support group :-) Picture books are great - it's always good to be able to point to the illustrations while you go "ahem" and get it back together. Whereas the other night I lost it while reading Great Expectations (Pip leaves the village and never looks back, waaaaaaugh, and then keeps thinking he'll hop down from the coach at the next stop, or the next, or the next, but doesn't, WAAAAAAAUGH), and there was nowhere to hide!
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Busytown: “Glory! Glory! There’s the salt!”, in reply to Laura Vincent,
I was a suspicious child (and have become a naive adult, haha)
That strikes me as a perfectly excellent evolution, beautifully described! I'm a bit the same. The world only gets bigger and more unfathomable, eh?
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Busytown: “Glory! Glory! There’s the salt!”, in reply to Tim Michie,
Thank you Jolisa. Enduring gratitude Margaret.
Great link! And we should all dash over and watch this too. Tattoos, porridge, lions, hard hard work… and a fascinating disagreement about the ending of The Lion in the Meadow.
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Everyone, quick, grab another box of tissues and head over to Elizabeth Knox’s blog for more powerful tribute, from one who knows the magic inside and out!
(Midnight last night must have been Mahy-time on the internet!)
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Busytown: “Glory! Glory! There’s the salt!”, in reply to Carol Stewart,
I also love the way many of her stories have this gorgeous subtext in celebrating diversity, eccentricity and people on the fringes, overturning stereotypes.
Absolutely, Carol - and even the "normal" families aren't particularly normal (Tycho's family a splendid example). As Hilary S was saying (on Twitter? on Craig's thread?) Mahy humanised solo parents, in particular. But also any sort of off-the-beaten-path life.
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Busytown: “Glory! Glory! There’s the salt!”, in reply to Russell Brown,
Hey, Dad of Boys Whose Father IS a Pirate -- I know. It's like you look up from the book and someone's quietly given you a tattoo of a sailing ship while you were reading.
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Hard News: Friday Music: When there were…, in reply to Greg Wood,
Devo, a winery act… my 13-year-old self just turned in his velcro-and-domes geometric shirt.
I'll go if you go, bro. And I'm sure we can source you an excellent replacement for that excellent shirt. I'll be wearing this.
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Hard News: Friday Music: When there were…, in reply to Danielle,
Also: bugger it, we’re going to see Devo, winery or not.
Are we not men? And, uh, women, and also babies?
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Hard News: Moving from frustration to disgust, in reply to Richard Aston,
"And then I got all angry again and had to play an angry song on the stereo."
Just curious Russell , what was that song ?
And was there dancing?
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Hard News: Moving from frustration to disgust, in reply to Russell Brown,
I was thinking about this last night while I made dinner and came to the same conclusion. What is being threatened for education is much more frightening than asset sales. And then I got all angry again and had to play an angry song on the stereo.
Funnily enough, I was thinking about this last night -- angry music and dinner were involved too -- and came to the opposite conclusion, for reasons that I'll see if I can articulate in a blog post. Naively, perhaps, I reckon parents are too smart to fall for this one... for all that Parata keeps saying "Parents need this, parents want that", I think she doesn't have the measure of what they do want -- nor how thoroughly teachers and parents (and students!) are on the same side on this question. And I think she underestimates the ability of the sector to ignore/redefine/work around whatever gets imposed.
Whereas asset sales, once done, are so much harder to undo. And so completely economically STUPID.
That said, of course it's not a competition for crappiest, most angry-making policy. It's okay to be royally fucked off about both of them, and I still am!