Posts by Lucy Stewart
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You need to try one at Deluxe. Today if you can!
That cafe at the beginning of Courtenay Place - the Espressoholic, I think? - also did a good hot chocolate when I was last there.
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Oh, the memories - school holiday seasonal employment amongst the fruits - and omitting to remove the wetas from the tomatoes that made the sauce....
Finally, a response to all my friends and relatives who see my refusal to eat tomato sauce as unpatriotic!
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I found Italy pretty good, France very variable. Germany surpisingly good (I think because they have grasped the consistancy thing).
The British vaguely like StarFux I think, because the alternatives there are still like NZ was up until about 10 years ago.
I don't actually drink coffee, but my coffee-drinking relatives found London better than they had expected, coffee-wise, although definitely inferior to Paris. The best coffee on the trip, IIRC, was in a wine shop/cafe in a tiny but heavily-defended medieval village south of Tours.
Singapore, OTOH, was dreadful; we had to resort to Starbucks, and at one point I was served tea with "non-dairy" creamer in it. That was...memorable.
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Give me a decent cup of tea any day!
Hear, hear. Although I feel obliged to point out that the massive popularity of tea over coffee until recently in Anglo-Saxon countries is because a virus wiped out the coffee plantations of Sri Lanka in the 1870s and the Brits were so caffeine-deprived they planted tea to make up for it. Coffee was much more popular before then.
To point out the obvious, British food is just as imported and nowdays just as foreign.
And better for it. The best Indian food I have ever had in my entire life was in this tiny Bangladeshi restaurant in a village twenty miles or so outside Oxford. In fact, all the best meals I had in England were curries of one sort or another; the "traditional" food was crap. And their addiction to pre-packaged meals honestly doesn't bear thinking about.
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But of course it was a cock-up. Not intentional. Oh no. Never.
I think the record of massive incompetence displayed by the Bush administration from there on sort of supports the cock-up theory, no?
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I can imagine. A history MPhil is hard enough!
Precisely why I'm planning to bugger off permanently to the sciences once my BA is complete. *g* I have a friend who did Honours in history over in Queensland - by the end of the year he was practically huddled in a fetal position saying "the books are coming to get me!".
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I seem to recall reading somewhere that one-third of all degrees granted in the last few years are in commerce. That's just bloody depressing.
OTOH, I don't think one degree is necessarily better than another for running the country - the key, if you will, is whether it teaches you how to think and analyse information. And that outcome is heavily dependent on the assessment and teaching, rather than the content.
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Um, no Paul. "X. didn't meet with Y., but there's got to be a secret agenda in there somewhere" is Ian Wishart territory, and I don't see why it shouldn't be called out as such.
Then call it as such. However, Young at no point came anywhere close to accusing Key of being a literal gay-basher, and the direct leap to that comparison, even in sarcasm, was rather confusing.
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Really, has John Key stopped cruising Ponsonby Road looking for fags to bash yet?
I think it's more important to find out whether he's stopped beating his wife, personally.
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Not that I don't like the Fowl-house on its own terms, but it didn't exactly take urban design considerations very seriously (it relates poorly to the end of the street, to the Town Hall, but of course the eponymous mayor intended the old Town Hall to be bowled when the new one was finished).
One of the biggest mind-fucks of my first year at uni was rocking on up to the Christchurch Town Hall for the welcome-to-Canterbury ceremony whatsit and being suddenly very confused as to what city I was in.