Posts by Jackie Clark
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yes, I raise both hands too. Not guilty, nor ashamed, nor stricken that I cannot live if I miss Survivor, or the Amazing Race, or the Apprentice, or Top Chef, or ANTM, or the fashion designer one, or Piha Rescue, or Police Ten 7, or Motorway Patrol.........and the list goes on.
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I said goodbye to twenty years of my life that day. Wasted years
Just because they weren't good years, doesn't mean they were wasted. Experience of any sort is never a waste. Truisms are called that for a reason. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger and all that shit, eh?
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Jeremy, that was a beautiful eulogy to your father in law. Made me all weepy, and I do like a good weep. Robyn (and with all due respect to Jeremy being a Hamiltonian), my dearest friend in the whole wide world lives in Hamilton, and I can't stand the place. It's so........other. To me, anyway.
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I agree, Joanna. Tell us more. It sounds like the ten yr old got to go on some sort of odyssey even if she didn't want to. We need to know more!
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Oh, Don. That's a sad ending. Some are, whereas some, as Heather and Emma have said, are a little strange and awkward, and some are cataclysmic. And most always, they lead to new beginnings of some sort. The ending that's had the most impact of me has been the ending of my father's life. It was so beautiful. He was a bit scared at first, but with all of us around him talking to him, and with my brother's hand on his heart, he went quietly and beautifully. It's true what they say, you know. You can tell when their spirit has left their body. Dad went about 2 minutes before his heart stopped. Peaceful. Exhilarating. Reassuring. A good ending to a great life.
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I think it's hard to over-estimate the damage Muldoon did to the National Party when to an increasingly large proportion of the electorate he crossed the line between 'strong leader' and 'paranoid thug'
My father, a business leader and fairly well off man, always voted National. My mother always voted Labour, but that's another story. My lovely Dad, bless his capitalist cotton socks, was much enamoured of the National Party to the extent that he found himself on the Foreign Affairs something or other committee so spent a reasonable period of time in the Parliament buildings. Imagine our horror, then, when he voted Labour, once and once only. I can't remember what year it was. He hated Muldoon vehemently, said he was an "evil little prick disguised as a poisonous dwarf". That always said something to me about the man. Because like me, my Dad was very partisan.
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Is Ikea large? Will there be lots of people there? In that case, count me out. It's lovely furniture, but anything larger than the corner shop throws me into a panic, these days.
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Attagirl, Deborah. They're lovely women at DVice. They have this great shop in Ponsonby Rd, and they're always at the Big Gay Out. Very helpful with advice.
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I like MMP - I like that people like Nandor and Sue Bradford can stroll the corridors of power with all the others. And the joy about being partisan? You always know who your party vote will be for. Fickle, I am not.
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I get rather impatient with the nostalgic mythology that New Zealand was some kind of Eden before the 1984 general election.
I certainly would not suggest that, Craig.