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'Civilly unified' is good. 'Civil universary' is good. But an equally bearable label for 'person I am in a civil union with' continues to elude me.
Civilian? :-)
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Great post :-)
I wish there was a word for "person you are in a civil union with", as surely it's a step up from a de facto partner: you've bothered to make it official. And even with de facto partners, we don't have enough words: when I lived with a partner, we both intended it as a lifelong commitment, but there was no word to convey that. ["So why don't you get married?" people would ask]
We didn't get married because we'd seen too many friends do it for reasons we just didn't share (religion, wish for respectability, social conformity, wishes of parents or families). To us, it was a more serious commitment to be together without being married.
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my remixed CD of Kylie </shamefacedadmission>
I once heard an interview with Nick Cave in which he said his bestselling album ever was Murder Ballads, not what you'd expect, but of course it's because of his duet with Kylie Minogue on Where the Wild Roses Grow. Cave says he's sure every single Kylie fan bought that album and then went, "What the fuck??!"
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Want to live somewhere? Learn the language as soon as you get there so you'll fit in.
My maternal grandparents, originally Scottish and Irish, having lived in South India and learned passable Hindi, arrived in NZ in 1934 to settle with their young family. They were expecting to learn Maori, the local language, but were informed by friends that this "wasn't done".
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The story that Donoghue unfolds is vaster, larger, deeper and more humane than any of that. It's a modest ante-chamber that opens into a labyrinth of paths; wandering them as you read will take your mind to places it's never been before, and to some places you've been but have forgotten
Of Donoghue's books, I've only read Hood, Kissing the Witch, and Slammerkin, but your description could equally fit any of them! Those stories are still vividly present in my mind, and I feel richer from having read them. And I have some catching up to do!
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Homebush, the homestead in Dean's Bush
Actually, the homestead in Deans' Bush is Riccarton House, the rather confusingly-named Homebush is on another Deans family property near Darfield, very close to the epicentre of the quake.
As far as I know, Riccarton House is OK, although I'm guessing it may have lost its chimneys.
I feel sad about Homebush, it was a beautiful house.
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I find it very charming that on consecutive days Jim Anderton is endorsing Woods, and recommending wood.
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Typography under seige
I'm guessing you mean the siege machine
and not the Microsoft© font...Hells, that link was supposed to go here!
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"what kind of a universe sends this level of damage but leaves Camelot Court completely untouched?"
It'll be more dramatic when the trebuchet hits.
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I can't speak for anyone else, but you have my sympathy.
Aw, thanks. :-)
And how come we didn't see you at the pub on Saturday?
I'm a Pub Vampire: I have to be invited, before I can cross the threshold.