Posts by Jackie Clark
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Nice, Sofie. (Squid and tree survival, I mean). I enjoyed the Media 7 Russell. I thought Philip didn't have enough airtime though. Interesting points made about Attitude. It's a programme I watch every week, I know some of the people who work on it (you meet the best people at the Big King), and I too have wondered if it might not, at times, be a little white bread. I appreciate there is a lack of funding, and the people who work on it do it for lots of love, but it was a salient point Philip made. I had never heard of that Sally journo person - very articulate and funny. Is she on National Radio or summat? Sacha, you looked suitable serious - very thoughtful. Full of, what's that word, gravitas.
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Maybe I'm missing the point. But I really don't like the Lily Allen video of her own song. Much prefer the LGBTA ones - the NZ one especially. As Russell says, it's lovely to see older people. And Buckwheat in a suit? Divine.
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It's talked about so little, isn't it, Islander? And you're right, of course. True inclusion would involve people of all sexualities - including those who have none. Sensuality, now, that's another matter altogether, wouldn't you say? Your obvious love of your environment, the joy you take in what you see and hear, your love of words - all would point to you being a sensualist of sorts.
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And speaking of beautiful people with coats of many colours, here's the video I've been on about since Russell previewed it at the Great Blend.
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No apoplectic landlord?
Well, there is a gentleman who hangs around sometimes, but he's more endearingly grumpy than apoplectic, really.
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Sofie - akeake (particularly the red kind), toru, kowhai* & ngaio - & wineberry , matipo, tree fuchsia & tarata - all seem possum-proof going by my tiny patch of bush. Manuka also-
Islander, you would love Sofie's garden. It is like the Garden of Eden. Only better.
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Oh no, Sofie! Quelle catastrophe! Your lovely Puka.......RIP. Will you put something in it's place? Will the lush gorgeousness that is your garden survive this natural betrayal?
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Well thank the goddesses for that, Russell. At last!
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I have to admit, Emma, I would have welcomed seeing you in Chch. Maybe if I know more people I like down there it will dissipate my angst about going there. I shouldn't overdramatise it, really. We spent a lot of time there as kids, but always in town. (Good ol' Noah's) So I love that bit of it. It's just that I stay out at Waimari beach, and always in Winter. Grey, and wet, and just un peu, how shall I put it? Cold. Yes, that suits nicely.
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But I have been forbidden from donating any more blood since they found that I had been in the UK during some specific period that they seem to think renders my blood a haven for BSE prions.
It kinda pissed me off after having overcome my fear of deliberate puncturing and done soemthing vaguely altruistic.
I, too, am unable to give blood because of my time in the UK during those years. When Ian had leukemia, I wanted desperately to give blood - just a little gesture, since I had seen for myself the restorative powers of blood transfusions. I was a bit pissed off too, and I still don't really understand the logic. Surely this many years down the track, our blood would have ceased to be "unclean" ?