Posts by Carol Stewart
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I had something even cooler than a mountain buggy for the very small baby stage - an ancient pram. It was a Thing of Beauty. Baby could lie down flat, completely protected from the chill Taupo winds. I traded it in for a mountain buggy once he could sit up a bit.
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When did the law change re: corporal punishment?
1989, apparently, for corporal punishment in schools. And, of course, 2007 for protecting children from corporal punishment in the home.
Words really fail me when I think upon Larry Baldock. Fortunately plenty of others here seem to be on his case.
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Also, does he support caning as a part of good parenting?
It wasn't that long ago that caning was considered an indispensible part of schooling.
And somehow the sky didn't fall in when we got rid of it. -
Isn't there, like, some Code of Conduct for mayors?
We have our qualms about Kerry Prendergast, but my 10 year old wrote her a steamingly indignant letter about threats to blue penguins on Wellington's south coast and got a disarmingly charming and helpful reply.
The people of Whanganui must be masochists. -
Well put, Sacha.
I really despair of The Listener. Any shred of a social conscience seems to have long gone. -
The only place where I'm ever that witty, is in my imagination.
Or on the stairway?
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Here's the difference, Angus.
The first time you say, "You wanna fuck?"
May I humbly recommend an enrolment at Charm School?
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Take me to your Leder...
Take me to your lieder ..
..as someone once remarked to Schubert -
It's not 'brave' to say what you're saying. It's not 'common sense'. It's the same tired old shit we've heard for centuries
The line between brave and stupid was ever a fine one ..
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And back to Teddy Kennedy for a moment .. this by Joyce Carol Oates, in the Grauniad, is well worth a read. Oates wrote a book, Dark Water, inspired by Chappaquiddick, and writes well about Teddy's redemption from Great Gatsbyesque spoilt rich kid to genuine democratic hero. Noblesse oblige writ large.