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Emma Hart

Mon, 29 Sept 2008 13:39:18 +1300

Emma, my boys are jealous – your guy has a room of his OWN??

Yes indeedy. What you need to explain to them is that my boy has a sister, not a brother, and while they shared a room until Boy was about six, we really couldn't have kept it…

Jolisa

Mon, 29 Sept 2008 13:34:02 +1300

Thanks for all the compliments on the delicious children. It is amazing what you can do with photoshop and/or a soapy flannel.

Bob, on the other hand, is unretouchable. I can testify that he is spectacularly gorgeous (if something of a wimp).

Emma, my boys are jealous – your guy…

David Haywood

Sat, 27 Sept 2008 21:45:18 +1200

Deborah wrote:

What beautiful children.

I must say that you're certainly an excellent judge of beauty, Deborah. Yes, the lads have boldly seized the torch of NZ's international reputation for beautiful people (as previously carried by Lorraine, Rachel (patron of the Rachel Hunter Lowland Gorilla Fund), Jemaine, and Bret).

There…

Kerry Weston

Sat, 27 Sept 2008 14:36:47 +1200

Hooray! So pleased Mr Haywood is publishing a book, I'm very taken with his style. It shall be requested for my xmas stocking.

Deborah

Sat, 27 Sept 2008 11:02:14 +1200

What beautiful children. All three of them. Almost as beautiful as mine, and that's saying a lot! :-)

There will be a trans-Tasman release of that book, won't there, Dr Haywood? Please? Or am I going to have to wait until we head back to NZ for a few weeks…

giovanni tiso

Sat, 27 Sept 2008 09:00:08 +1200

I'm advising all buyers to lower their expectations before reading.

Before reading but after buying, right?

David Haywood

Sat, 27 Sept 2008 06:40:17 +1200

Don Christie wrote:

Good. Did he say whether it would be out in time for Christmas?

Barring terrible disasters, my book should be out by the end of November/beginning of December. I'm advising all buyers to lower their expectations before reading.

I'm hoping that we'll have a book from Jolisa…

Venetia King

Fri, 26 Sept 2008 19:05:50 +1200

Reading this earlier today made me laugh so hard I could barely breathe. I was glad I'd gone home for lunch as it's not a pretty sight... Thanks, you cheered me up no end after a rather trying morning.

Don Christie

Thu, 25 Sept 2008 15:47:42 +1200

And the results – I’ve had a preview — are seriously exquisite. A collection of essays you will be proud to own, and to purchase for your friends and relations.

Good. Did he say whether it would be out in time for Christmas?

Jackie Clark

Thu, 25 Sept 2008 15:42:03 +1200

Thanks for putting those photos in, Jolisa. It's nice to put faces to the boys antics.

Emma Hart

Thu, 25 Sept 2008 13:10:21 +1200

Oh, the curls, not the gorgeous golden curls! I miss them so much.

And I note that despite your glowing testamonials re young Master Robert, he is unconscious in that photo (something that oddly doesn't diminish his resemblance to his father).

GemmaG

Thu, 25 Sept 2008 10:26:17 +1200

I'd just like to congratulate you on reaching "Page 100 of 100" in your Public Address archive! Way to go big sis xxx

Danielle

Thu, 25 Sept 2008 09:32:40 +1200

Jolisa, you have my undying devotion for the namechecking of Gerald McBoing-Boing.

Also, the intense cuteness: it burns.

David Haywood

Thu, 25 Sept 2008 08:04:35 +1200

Jolisa,

Thanks for all the hospitality on the weekend, as well as your kind comments on my forthcoming collection of words (I will pay you the bribe money as soon as I get my next salary payment from Public Address).

And, wow, the machine in your photograph is uncannily like…

Public Address

Thu, 25 Sept 2008 08:04:35 +1200

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