Posts by Isabel Hitchings
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Sayana - amazing I didn't bump into you ;-) Didn't Bowie look cute in a parka? I was hoping for Station to Station or The Return on the Disco King both of which did get a few outings on that tour. Space Oddity I can live without luckily as it pretty much never gets played live anymore.
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We're seeing David Byrne on Valentine's Day. I don't think this is particularly romantic.
I spent Valentine's Day 2004 seeing David Bowie. It was very romantic in a letting long suppressed teenage fantasies run free kind of way.
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I think I'd have an awful lot of inhibitions to get over before being able to usefully use any kind of voice activated system to replace a keyboard.
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I can kind of get the medical romance sub-genre but the one that boggles me is the 'blokes with kids' ones (of which there are a lot).
I was never much of a romance reader but I've had a few friends and flatmates who were so I've picked up one or two when I've had nothing else to read.
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Oh stop it. What I did, pretty much, was drink merlot and hunch over my keyboard giggling to myself.
I can't think of a better way to spend an evening.
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Am I the only one who suspects that Emma enjoyed writing this ... a little more than she should have?
I'm fairly sure she's still feeling a little flushed and weak at the knees over it ;-)
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I flatted with a woman once (I won't call her crazy on the grounds that I'm not qualified to make that kind of diagnosis) who genuinely believed that being able to cook was a sign of oppression. On her own, she'd have been so unoppressed she wouldn't have been able to feed herself.
I flatted with one of those too. Not the same one though (assuming you are talking about who I think you are talking about) the points of similarity were remarkable. It was a point of principle to be incapable of wielding a dishbrush and yet she still got her boyfriend to do all the heavy lifting and tricky jar opening.
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In the house it might include cooking, cleaning, cleaning-up-after, tidying, organising, beautifying, gardening, home maintenance, doing shopping, budgeting, paying bills, doing laundry, repairing clothes and sewing on buttons and name-tags, making clothes, organising activities and co-ordinating schedules within the household. These things aren't really covered by "parenting".
Very few if any of these jobs are exclusive to the partnered though so how come single women, even otherwise unemployed single women, never refer to themselves as homemakers?
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My mother called me a slut one time. I was horrified until I realised that she meant I really really needed to tidy my room.
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I have a book which claims that Turkish Muslims used to have to promise to keep their wives supplied with coffee, which strikes me as potentially relevant to modern marriage vows in Wellington
That's the whole basis of my relationship.