Posts by Ian Dalziel
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Salem's Lot...
Do we have witches in our parliment?
Well we do have a witch-finder general at TV3 - Dunkin' Garner...
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more platy-cheweds...
monotreme obscenity
won't someone think of the echidnas...
Elric the Axolotl...
mexicans with good cell coverage?
talking about my re-re-regeneration... -
I was surprised to hear that Roger Shepherd's drink driving conviction, in Wellington today, warranted a spot on Radio NZ news...
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I'm sure they don't really believe a state visit is costing more per day than the entire Afghanistan war --
you sure you got that right?
I can't believe they've only spent $200 million on the war in Afghanistan...
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Vikings from the Orkneys, purported to worship various gods (mainly aspects of nature.)
including otters...?
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Indian Tarkaways - being sold a a pup...
Has anyone here tried a chicken tarka?
It's like a chicken tikka, but a little 'otter.Tasty!
Some like it 'otter... -
...on the lookout for easy things to print/publish!!!!!
Did you get the email about my limited print run chapbook As Above, So Below - Wit and Wisdom from the Hutt a deliciously thin tome, the blank pages are great for shopping lists and phone messages...
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We don't need no steenkin' badgers...
...but a romp of Otters is always a welcome addition to the thin literary Lutrinae canon, joining such classics as Tarka the Otter by Henry Williamson (also made into a movie by Gerald Durrell & Peter Ustinov), Gavin Maxwell's Ring of Bright Water, Brian Jacques' Redwall Series and Russell Hoban's Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas - which was turned into a televisual classic by Jim Henson:- will we see an otter musical by The Bridle Path in the near future?
Wikipedia also reminds us that Hermione Granger's Patronus is an otter...
... and I was fascinated to read that the word Otter (Otor, Oter) stems from the Proto-Indo-European language root wódr which
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It's the kids. They ooze life, preschoolers.
I've just been reading a book on this - called The Life that Lives on Man - we are real estate for a plethora of beasties from bacterium to bed-bugs...
:- )But I know what you mean, Kindergartens and Playcentres are great incubators for the patterns and behaviours we will embrace, and repeat, for the rest of our lives...
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Quantum of Solanaceae
(there is a readily-transmitted lurge called Tobacco Mosaic Virus--when I worked in glasshouse cultivation, we were advised to avoid smoking--especially rollies)
Maybe it's just a Waikato thing - wasn't there a heavy metal band from Hamilton called Knightshade?
:- )But seriously hand washing between handling infected plants can minimise passing on the infection, it's almost like TMV is the Herpes of the plant world (and thriving in the Nightshade/Solanaceae family), but plants like grapes and apples show no symptoms when infected, you can try spraying with milk, this can inhibit the infection apparently...