Posts by Isabel Hitchings
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Am I correct in assuming that "Tink" is reserved for the person who brings every thread around to their special interest rather than the one who is absolutely fine so long as you manage to avoid one or two topics?
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Up Front: Where You From?, in reply to Megan Wegan,
I can navigate by the port hills, but I just can’t do that in welly.
When I was in Wellington recently i tried to use the google maps app on my phone to find the place I was meant to be meeting friends. it kept telling me to head south but, without the port hills, I had no idea where south was.
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Up Front: Where You From?, in reply to Emma Hart,
Yes! Having happy things on the horizon is going to make a difference especially when most of the news is along the lines of "Thing x will not be fixed for a minimum of y months."
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Up Front: Where You From?, in reply to Bart Janssen,
Aaaaww!
I suspect that, if you can't magically fix the sewers and the roads right now then supplying kittehs is one of the best things you can do for my flagging spirits.
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Up Front: Where You From?, in reply to Megan Wegan,
I wonder how that’s going to manifest.
I suspect we're going to see a lot of mental health issues over the coming months. It's like when you're depressed and can't foresee anything good happening for a long time except with a rational basis. We're managing by making sure we fit some 'good things' into every week but I know people who are still too scared to do things like sit in a movie theatre or go where there are crowds and I worry about them greatly.
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Up Front: Where You From?, in reply to Emma Hart,
n the eastern suburbs, there’ve been constant conflicted messages about whether we should be flushing (our street was offered chemical toilets if we wanted them, not told we should be using them)
I specifically asked the young soldier who offered us a chemical loo if we should be using it and she had absolutely no idea. This week they put two portaloos in our street and a dump-site round the corner which I am taking as a very strong hint. I do, however, find moving from flushing (albeit sparingly) to using the camping loo again quite hard psychologically - a step away from any hope of normality.
Megan It seems like the convention for public loos (eg in malls or restaurants) is to flush normally but assuming you have a loo that's your own for the duration of your stay my gut feeling is that the "if it's brown flush it down..." rule should apply.
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Busytown: A new (old) sensation, in reply to Jolisa,
Also, a secret library door, and the ultimate bibliophile’s staircase.
A secret bookshelf door which leads to more books! I think I just exploded from squee-ness!
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Busytown: A new (old) sensation, in reply to Emma Hart,
Everyone has fantasies about ladders on runners, right?
I know I do.
After reading Neil Gaiman's blog about Diana Wynne Jones i am rereading Deep Secret which is familiar and silly enough to creep into the dusty corners of my brain and remind it that reading is fun and not just something I do because it's part of my bedtime routine.
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Since September I've found it hard to hold a plot or complex cast of characters in my brain and consequently I'm finding it hard to engage with novels and each one takes ages for me to plough through. I think I'm going to have to resort to rereading comfortable and familiar kids/young adults books for a bit.
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Oh and I lived in a Mary Clifford flat on Gloucester St in the mid-nineties (at which point the buildings were run by a trust). It was a crazy old place full of doors that lead nowhere and a floorplan that lead me to suspect there was a sealed room in the middle. It was totally rundown yet had several pieces of utterly gorgeous art deco furniture. I shared it with a succession of increasingly dodgy flatmates - the league player who was so thick he actually got smarter when stoned, the guy who would spend days on end in his darkened bedroom then come out and speak incomprehensibly fast. Fortunately my bedroom was huge and had a sink and an outside door so I could largely avoid contact.