Posts by Muriel Lockheed
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Angus said
Look at Mr Key seeking & getting accomodation with Sue Bradford. Look at the polls before and after
ummm I didn't think he reached accomodation with Sud Bradford, infact Helen Clark sent him a note inviting him to meet and the compromise happened from that meeting.
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re the Listener...........
I get Joanne Black rage, can't stand her rabbiting on blah blah blah.
Love Jane Clifton. I miss pg 94 desperately. Come back Steve, few gawds sake!!
The Listener aint what is used to be.....sigh
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I think so. I've had many upsetting moments in (gak!) 13 years of online discussions, but each one is just a discussion thread. There'll be another one tomorrow.
I am into my 12th year of being online. Started in the xtra chat rooms, all newbies together and then graduated to usenet. My heavens that could be toxic and sometimes you would get drawn into it..................I had a few upsetting moments.
Now when I feel irritated with someone and dash off a post in reply to something they have said, I read, re-read, then preview and then I walk away from the computer, have a cup of tea, pull some weeds in the garden and then I come back, and if I still feel okay about the post I send it.
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I didn't ask how you were feeling now Russell, but I was thinking of you, does that count?
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Strong feelings on this one, partly because I was a postie for two years
I am not a dog person. I had problems with a pack of dogs wandering (not wondering) at my place a few years back. It came to a head one day when there were five of them in my yard and they would not allow me to leave the house, bared teeth, growly tones, so I was trapped indoors for an hour or so till they left. Don't ask me why I felt it necessary to pull the curtains during all this! My imagination was rampant- my own Stephen King horror playing in my head. I was actually quite scared. I rang dog control and they came up and set up "cage trappy things"; the only dog caught was an adorable little dog from down the road, that I don't think would hurt a fly but however had wandered into my yard. I did feel rather guilty about that.
Funnily enough the dogs never came near my place again and no longer wander, I am not sure whether dog control had anything to do with this or not. I am just glad to see the back of them.Enforce the current laws I say!
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I remember at age 13 babysitting my brothers, we were playing this game of chicken. Somehow or other during this I managed to fall through a window badly severing an artery in my lower arm. Bemused as blood began spurting, I gathered my senses, slapped a hand over it and went to the neighbours. Knocked on the door, Mr Campbell answered and I very politely said "I think I have cut myself". He told me later that as I was covered in blood head to toe he nearly laughed at that piece of understatement. Off to the local GPs, arm swathed in towels, said GP grumpy as it was afterhours, and he had been called in. His tune changed when he saw the extent of the injury and I was hospitalised for a week. Ambulance ride, with lights blazing, sirens blaring, I was in heaven.
Needless to say we were banned from playing that particular game again.
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Sounded good Craig, well done. I won't leave a message on my answerphone so phobic am I about hearing my voice coming back at me, so radio ..........nah!!
Anyway fave movies
anything from the GREAT Hayao Miyazaki and almost anything from the Ghibli Studios - Spirited Away, Howls Moving Castle
Fargo
Gone with the Wind
Brick (2005) Rian Johnson
Pulp Fiction (1994) Quentin Tarantino
3 Iron (2004) Ki-duk Kim, understated Korean masterpiece IMHO
Pan's Labrynth (2006) Guillermo del Toro
Pride and Prejudice (1995) Simon Langton
Grave of the Fireflies (1988) Isao TakahataFor those girlie moments
My Life without me (2003) Isabel Coixet
Wilbur wants to kill himself (2002) Lone Scherfig
The Warrior and the Princess (2000) Tom TykwerLoathed, hated, scorned
Forrest (bloody) Gump OMG what a crock of shit
Anything at all with Jim Carey, sorry, he is an idiot
Reservoir Dogs, pointless, gratuitous
Eyes Wide Shut, as in asleep
Babel pointless, pompous twaddle
Ahhh the movies. Roll on the film festival. -
shudder
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I, once, confronted a rat in my kitchen. Paralysed with fear I rang for my BIL to get his butt round here now, unfortunately he was not home so my sister came instead. She found me on the table, cowering, then announced that she didn't know what to do. In desperation she throw a cardboard box over it, said she would get my BIL to come round to deal with it when he got home, and left saying she couldn't deal with rats. Thanks sis! I was alright about the rat until it began dragging the box about the kitchen floor as it scurried round. BIL came round hours later, I had spent those 4 hours locked in the toilet in mortal fear.
To this day I am not sure why I thought the toilet was the best place to take refuge.
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When I was an adolescent I once read Jane Eyre five times in row. I still read it every now and then. What a book! I also loved the Anne of Green Gables series. I wanted to marry Gilbert badly.
In my early twenties The Third Eye by Lopsang Rampa, I was also into Kahlil Gibrain too. Some strange spiritual/mystical phase I was wandering through.
Winnie the Pooh.
Pride and Prejudice.
Adrian Mole.