Posts by Jacqui Dunn
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Hard News: A few (more) words on The Hobbit, in reply to giovanni tiso,
Yes, but that means that we’ll only find out if there’s an afterlife if in fact there is an afterlife. And I don’t like our chances.
But you could get a surprise!
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Hard News: A few (more) words on The Hobbit, in reply to BenWilson,
I know we all will!
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Hard News: Holiday Open Thread 1: Beach…, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
Are we really going to stew up Tiddles with a few onions and a clove of garlic
Known as "roof rabbits" in some places.
or boil up Rover with a few sprigs of rosemary
Also done in some other places. We just don't have a history of it - well, not recent anyway.
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Hard News: Holiday Open Thread 1: Beach…, in reply to Steve Barnes,
The giant huhu bugs, on the other hand, can be slightly annoying when you get them stuck in your hair and they crawl across your face
Aargggh!!
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Hard News: A few (more) words on The Hobbit, in reply to andin,
There are no secrets of awareness, different dimensions where all is revealed. I dont mean to sound harsh, but we have to trim back on the fantasy realms it makes for mental flab.
But, Andin, that's the point. You won't know until you're there! No fantasy really.
I do understand your view, though, re not wanting to be kept alive. My mother had a huge fear of lingering on, way past her time. I think it was based on seeing her mother, the survivor of a stroke that knocked out some of her ability to sort out right from wrong (although, mind, this is in the view of other people - not a good place to start) living for many years in a mental hospital. When Mum had a stroke, she survived about four hours. All her lights went out. Marvellous really. Way to go! And the lovely thing about it, which my brother witnessed, was that it was a HUGE joke! She laughed and laughed, quite oblivious to the nurses and doctors. She didn't share that joke, with anyone.
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Hard News: Holiday Open Thread 1: Beach…, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
Well, some people have two left feet!
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Hard News: A few (more) words on The Hobbit, in reply to andin,
I dont want to live much past 85.
Maybe you should wait until you get there. From the sounds of it, you're quite a way off.
Who knows, perhaps when we get there, we'll find that the secret of dotage is life/awareness in a different dimension? A real cosmic joke!
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Hard News: Holiday Open Thread 1: Beach…, in reply to Islander,
Oh-oh. Actually, I never did take B6 because I'd just read a book which outlined the danger of taking one B out of balance with the others, and I didn't have a problem with W(h)anganui's mozzies after that, because I went back to Wellington.
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Hard News: Holiday Open Thread 1: Beach…, in reply to Christopher Dempsey,
Midges?? I guess I've got a mindset about mosquitoes - never thought of those!
When I worked in Wanganui many years ago (before the "h") there was a particularly virulent little mozzie with striped legs that took a shine to me. Wherever I was bitten would swell up mightily, and then the whole limb would ache. The answer, I was told at the time, was to take VitB6. The insects don't like the taste (or smell) of you.
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NZDF dismantles 'Kindom Come' set
The Herald headlines a new take on the Lord's Prayer. All to do with the rellies.