Posts by Amy Gale
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is it weird then that I made a cat toy for my cat from its own hair?
There is usually an ad in the back of Interweave Knits from someone who will spin your pet-brushings into yarn. You could make your cat a little sweater to wear while it plays...
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Am currently hard at work on a heatwave-proof stove-top/uncooked dinner to tempt our flagging appetites.
We're all about salade nicoise in this weather. If you do enough eggs, you can even keep some in the fridge for the next salad (technically this is also true of potatoes, but leftover potatoes ask so loudly to be sauteed that I cannot in good conscience ignore them).
The other thing you can do - though it's more of an hors d'oeuvre than a meal - is snack intermittently on the garden as you play with the dog after work. Obviously this requires a garden, a dog, and a job, but local variations could work too. It's a rather lettuce-heavy undertaking right now, but tomatoes and radishes seem to be coming along well.
And is that the watermelon barley salad from the NYT article on dinner co-ops? I saved that but haven't made it yet. The idea of a dinner co-op is pretty darn tempting, too. Especially the bit about using up your CSA <cough> bounty.
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I was thinking last night about Upper Hutt. My conclusion is that Upper Hutt is less like Gomorrah to Wellingtonians, and more like Minnesota.
- It's far away. To the north.
- You can't imagine living there, even though all the people you know from there are very nice. And even though housing is actually rather inexpensi...no. No.
- You can only really see yourself going there in order to visit friends or relatives. You do have some vague sense that you might have heard about a mall or something.
- This last even though you are well aware that there are some lovely scenic bits, and may well have even visited them.
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Blonde bobs, turned up collars, maybe chunky pearls - I thought that was a Khandallah Wadestown sort of thing that you learnt at private girls' schools.
I went to private girl's school AND had classmates from Khandallah and Wadestown AND was a disgusting girly-swot. As I remain pearl-less, bob-less and collar-less, I can only conclude that it wasn't on the main curriculum.
Therefore, they probably covered this material at assembly on Wednesdays, while I was at orchestra practice.
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In a previous life, I did a bit of MRI work. We used to model for each other. WheeOOOwheOOoo DONK DONK DONK.
The weirdest bit, though, was going down on Friday nights to do data pickups and sitting in the waiting room with all the young boxers in for their compulsory brain scans. Weird and sad.
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On the subject of correlation vs causation, it occurs to me that the drop in cycling-as-transport could also be related to the introduction of Japanese used car imports, which happened at about the same time as the bike helmet legislation and the education campaigns that preceded it.
I'm having a Bad Google Day and can't determine whether Australia had a similar overlap. I also can't find any indication that cheaper cars have been considered as a factor by people analyzing the effects of the helmet laws, but that might be the Bad Google Day too.
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ooo! ooo! Within 10 years AND quotable:
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- Oh, son, for that you traded your everlasting soul?
- Well, I wasn't usin' it.##
- Mrs Hogwallop up and R-U-N-N-O-F-T.
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The line that keeps on giving is "whaddya call this?..yeah, but what've ya done with it?"
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“I’m a Derek, and Dereks don’t run”
My favourite PJ movie quote is still "I'm a New Zealand zoo official, and this monkey is going to Newtown".
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Yeah ... and they had a Ches & Dale ad on it. Claiming to be from 1969. But in colour. Oh well.
I believe Calvin's dad once explained this