Posts by Kerry Weston
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(I also, as a child, believed that there was a verb "to misle", meaning "fool or deceive", which I inferred from what I thought was an obvious reading of "misled").
Mine was "unched" tears, instead of the unshed ones I girlfully held back.
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Loved how OF kicked off with door-whacking, coitus interruptus, as the new cop erupted into the show. All we need now is for Wolf to come back.
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Dorothy Butler's reflection on loving child-rearing
I enjoyed that, too. Especially the tales of the old hearse used as the family wagon to transport oodles of kids. Man, she must have a huge house to hold all those books!
I used to stay with cousins in Wellington as a child - they lived up Ngaio Gorge Road and had a huge old Plymouth which I loved driving in, swooping down the hills :-)
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Nobody ever told me that it was possible to be homesick regardless of where I lived.
It's possible to feel that way and yet never left the country for an extended time. :-)
poorly insulated homes, ratshit public transportation, high food prices, a vacuous mass media, and fewer and smaller niches than wherever we came from.
Might be just me, but there seem to be fewer, less populated niches than there used to be 20 years ago. Seems to be a lot more aggro and intolerance even, which I find hard to comprehend.
But it seems to stubbornly resist that in favour of provincialism. Such connections are performed quietly and individualised. And I can't explain why. It isn't 1850 any more.
Not many of us know our own history or understand it. Late 20th C was pretty challenging of everything we had been and done. I reckon many are still in shock,either pulled the blanket over their heads, or still running round like headless chooks. Or left.
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Kids are miraculous but. I know that's a risky phrase to be using in this mainly secular space, but they just are.
Divine bundles of hope - Congratulations! Hope you're spoiling your wife - usually involves sleep, feet and massage, something yum to eat.
I seem to recall birth & motherhood hit me like a tidal wave, nothing's the same thereafter, that's for sure. But such a lovely, smoodgie time ....
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Radio Live, Newstalk ZB: minus infinity
Had my car radio tuned to Live lately (hits self on head) - Maggie Barry 4-6pm is good - but Lawhs and Jackson ....I start to feel I live in a really ugly country and wonder how widespread the shitty thinking is.
i really do wonder if the superficial thinking is more ingrained than we acknowledge? As a mature uni student, I'm horrified at the shallow intellectual debate - what debate? - or committed curiosity & exploration of ideas amongst students, English, History and Media students at that.
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Laws' marital malfunction hasn't had anywhere near as much ink as his daughter's illness has it? Funny that.
starter for ten - he was babbling on Radio Live today (I know, I know, swimming in muck) about changing his will now that he's separated. For one ghastly moment I thought he was going to launch into an odorous expose of Life in Lawhsville, but no. Odds on, someone will.
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Oh, and Kerry: Absolutely no disrespect taken. You put forward a contrary POV, and while I wasn't convinced it was thoughtful and cogently put.
aww, shucks.Thanks, hon.
you bet your sweet arse this well-fucked, alkie faggot never would, since only saints need apply.
Ha! cracked me up nicely at the end of a hard day at the books.
See, I'd rate you for public office over Rankin because you are open and you condemn intolerance and narrow minded guffery. You have integrity and she doesn't.
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I hope you can understand why I'd not much like having all that dragged out in the light for strangers to leer over over their Sunday brunch.
And yet here you are, telling us all about it. No disrespect intended, Craig, I'm a believer in talking out these things and have done so myself on here. I feel much compassion for you and respect your open-ness. But you're not running for public office in a sensitive area.
Bennett is Key's protegee, he had to stick up for her. But someone wants her out - maybe Key isn't doing so well at keeping the power-hungry freaks at bay.
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Thomas the Tank Engine & co always had unscripted bits when read aloud here. When my kids could read them for themselves they'd hunt through the pages, looking for stuff that had mysteriously disappeared. :-)