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Posted at 11:33AM on 26 Nov 09. Permalink.

otherwise the poor man would have nowhere to put his pencil

So Jen isn't coming along for the trip too????

Posted at 11:41AM on 26 Nov 09. Permalink.

So Jen isn't coming along for the trip too????

Between all of Jen's attention and half of mine and David's, we should just be able to manage a Certain Baby.

And I have no idea what you might be implying. If anything.

Posted at 11:47AM on 26 Nov 09. Permalink.

And I have no idea what you might be implying

Why nothing untoward of course, the thought that "pencil" might be some kind of euphemism would never occur to me...

Posted at 11:51AM on 26 Nov 09. Permalink.

Eeeew!

Posted at 11:52AM on 26 Nov 09. Permalink.

I’m about to climb on a plane and head to one of my favourite New Zealand cities. Please, if I know you but I’ve never seen your face before, do come up and introduce yourself, I’d love to meet you all in the flesh.

And, once again, if I may be so bold, if you are brave enough to go up and say hello, you will be meeting one of the sweetest people. EVAH.

Posted at 11:55AM on 26 Nov 09. Permalink.

Hope you're going to clear 90 minutes of quiet time on Sunday evening to catch The Waters of Mars. Just not fair that Lindsay Duncan has so much of the world's limited supply of awesome.

Posted at 12:00PM on 26 Nov 09. Permalink.

And, once again, if I may be so bold, if you are brave enough to go up and say hello, you will be meeting one of the sweetest people. EVAH.

You don't even need to be brave. She's not that scary

Posted at 12:05PM on 26 Nov 09. Permalink.

Hope you're going to clear 90 minutes of quiet time on Sunday evening to catch The Waters of Mars. Just not fair that Lindsay Duncan has so much of the world's limited supply of awesome.

Big, big love to whoever it is at Prime who is getting this stuff over so fast, and indeed at all.

She's not that scary

It's true. I don't bite. Strangers. For free.

Posted at 12:41PM on 26 Nov 09. Permalink.

I'm so glad that mine is not the only mind that went there when reading about "Dr Haywood's pencil".

Posted at 1:27PM on 26 Nov 09. Permalink.

What filthy minds you all have. It's a traditional and perfectly sensible way to keep your writing implements warm, especially in a Chch winter. Means you never have to shell out for a heated pencil case to stop your fountain pens freezing up.

(NB that definition of pass/fail still doesn't make any sense to me).

Posted at 1:44PM on 26 Nov 09. Permalink.

Thanks for the public announcement message, Fräulein Hart. I had a dream (nightmare) last night that no-one turned up to these book launches.

In fact, I can already see myself blogging on the unfolding disaster: "We felt like killing ourselves", etc.

Bart: please try to drag your mind out of your underpants! I know that our nation's CRIs are a hotbed of steamy sex, but I hope you can keep some perspective, and come to realize that not all of us are the over-sexed scientists that you encounter in your day job. And no, I wasn't suggesting anything by my usage of the word 'come' in that sentence.

And furthermore, I think (hope) that Emma would choose something a little larger than a pencil if she was making a double-entendre. Perhaps a nuclear submarine or a Saturn V rocket.

Posted at 1:49PM on 26 Nov 09. Permalink.

David - I hope you don't mind, but I mentally parsed the penultimate sentence of your third paragraph as:

...but I hope you can keep some perspective, and can realize that not all of us are the over-sexed scientists that you come across in your day job.

Posted at 1:51PM on 26 Nov 09. Permalink.

Perhaps a nuclear submarine or a Saturn V rocket.

Or Thunderbird 1. Think about that the next time you spend two hours playing "Tracy Island".

Um. Okay, now I really am going to get on that plane.

Posted at 2:05PM on 26 Nov 09. Permalink.

Um. Okay, now I really am going to get on that plane.

Enough already.

Posted at 3:03PM on 26 Nov 09. Permalink.

Big, big love to whoever it is at Prime who is getting this stuff over so fast, and indeed at all.

Seem to be hitting the airwaves everywhere pretty damn quick -- ABC1 in Australia on December 6. Subscribers to BBC America have to wait until the 19th, but the lucky fuckers get 'The End of Time, Part 1' on Boxing Day. (Come on Prime, you don't want the Yanks showing us up!)

Posted at 3:03PM on 26 Nov 09. Permalink.

Big, big love to whoever it is at Prime who is getting this stuff over so fast, and indeed at all.

Seem to be hitting the airwaves everywhere pretty damn quick -- ABC1 in Australia on December 6. Subscribers to BBC America have to wait until the 19th, but the lucky fuckers get 'The End of Time, Part 1' on Boxing Day. (Come on Prime, you don't want the Yanks showing us up!)

Posted at 3:04PM on 26 Nov 09. Permalink.

I'll be there.

David: Want me to bring rope just in case no one else turns up?...Oh silly me...you will already in Hell,,,,,,Wellington. :-)

I heard that Arty Bees buys second hand books. ....I wonder how much they will offer me for an author signed copy of some non stained RB book I got in the mail recently.......If I wait 'til after the hanging....

Posted at 3:54PM on 26 Nov 09. Permalink.

please try to drag your mind out of your underpants!

Huh? Emma is wearing underpants on her head??? Is that post operative thing?

I know that our nation's CRIs are a hotbed of steamy sex

Well I did spend half of yesterday helping our petunias reproduce...

Think about that the next time you spend two hours playing "Tracy Island".

Oh cool I was wondering what I was going to do tonight, BTW does anyone know where I can get a replacement T2 - my friend's children broke mine. Yes I did recognise it immediately during the geek quiz at the last Great Blend.

Posted at 4:49PM on 26 Nov 09. Permalink.

Crossing fingers for the Christchurch thing - I was going to be in Wellington tomorrow, as it happens, but instead I will be listening to forty-five other people talk about their medical summer school projects, which is unlikely to be nearly as interesting. Curses.

Posted at 5:07PM on 26 Nov 09. Permalink.

BTW does anyone know where I can get a replacement T2?

Several on Trademe at the moment, even a couple of the Islands.

Posted at 10:00AM on 27 Nov 09. Permalink.

Emma, David. Very best of luck today. I am sure you don't need it but best anyway. If you feel like putting one book each aside for me in Ak, I will buy them , honest :))

Posted at 10:26AM on 27 Nov 09. Permalink.

Same. Even buy yous a drink.

Posted at 2:01PM on 27 Nov 09. Permalink.

Same. Even buy yous a drink.

Fuck,you guys are going to rot your brains with all those drinks your planing to buy each other.

Anyway, I've seen the books in the flesh. I was surprised how big David's one was. Emma's was more shinny.

Posted at 2:57PM on 27 Nov 09. Permalink.

Hope the Book Thing is going well for you both. xx

Posted at 4:07PM on 27 Nov 09. Permalink.

Sigh. I think this evening in Parliament is going to be sadly lacking in the decorum front.

Posted at 4:39PM on 27 Nov 09. Permalink.

I was surprised how big David's one was. Emma's was more shinny.

Must ... resist ...

Posted at 4:40PM on 27 Nov 09. Permalink.

Book signing went very well. About to put pretty dress on and head to the Back Bencher

Posted at 7:29PM on 27 Nov 09. Permalink.

Big, big love to whoever it is at Prime who is getting this stuff over so fast, and indeed at all.

I think they figured out that if they didn't, people would torrent it.

TVNZ's snappy decision to screen "V" has just saved me some bandwidth. OTOH, whichever moron isn't screening Dolhouse only has themselves to blame.

Posted at 9:56AM on 28 Nov 09. Permalink.

Well, that was fun.

I got to satisfy my curiosity and buying one/both of the books is on my list.

Posted at 10:20AM on 28 Nov 09. Permalink.

Any anecdotes?