Posts by Isabel Hitchings
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It is disgusting out there. 20cm of water on our drive and probably worse on the street. Storm water going the wrong way so the toilet won't drain and bubbles ominously. We rang the council who recommended sealing it with gladwrap and a brick. We have the chemical loo on the go again. Partner is obsessively looking at property listings for suburbs west of here.
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Up Front: The Up-Front Guides: The…, in reply to steve gray,
It really doesn't matter to me who wrote the bill or whether its passing would affect them in any way. It also doesn't matter how I feel about marriage as an institution. All that matters is that some same sex couples do wish to marry and there is no just reason why they should not be able to.
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I'd been largely avoiding reading anything for fear of acknowledging the fact making it all become real but then my kids' school (where I am a teacher aide) spent today crafting notes and stories and poems which will adorn Margaret Mahy's coffin and it's all a bit too much.
Margaret and my mother were childrens librarians at the same time (though in different cities) and she was an enormous influence on my Mum and thereby me as well. Somewhere I have signed copies of several of her books - always with a little doodle of a lion or a crocodile.
I think my favourite of her picture books is The Witch in the Cherry Tree. The mother being delightfully vague and half engaged with her son's ideas, the witch yearning for the cosy domesticity inside the house and the little boy, David, who is cannier than either of them.
The teen books came out at just the right time for me. All those "ordinary" girls who were anything but left me with powerful feelings which never quite subsided but I think it was the adults who left the biggest impression - parents who were fully rounded characters with flaws and fears and dreams of their own.
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The only damage I can see from sex blogging ( assuming a certain degree of non-arsehattery from the blogger) is in not having enough of it or, more specifically, not having a wide enough variety of voices out there.
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Were we to ever get married there would be this:
and maybe this:
And then, because maybe it shouldn't be all Bowie all the time we could have:
I suspect my darling would, however, prefer discreet jazz and nothing that encouraged dancing which may be why we continue to live without benefit of wedlock (as my uncle once described how we were raising our kids).
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Bowie for funerals? For me it has to be this:
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Hard News: OGB Update, in reply to Jackie Clark,
The horror!
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Hard News: OGB Update, in reply to Jackie Clark,
But were there name tags?
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There were nametags in Wellington last year though some people still couldn't figure out who I was until I told them my twitter handle.
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Up Front: You're Telling My Child What, Now?, in reply to Suzanne Shirley,
If my kids married their first sexual or romantic partner I'd definitely have concerns, especially if they were also very young. I've seen it work and I wouldn't stop them but I know that my early relationships, and those of the majority of my friends, mostly served to demonstrate exactly how little we knew. It took a few goes to work out the differences between how I thought things should be , based on books and the media, and what actually worked for me.