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Muse: OPEN HOUSE: Margaret Mahy, The…, in reply to Lilith __,
How can she be dead when all her many books are pulsating with such vibrant and irrepressible life?
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Lilith - the great comfort-
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Margaret impressed me so much...she wasnt just warm & kindly, she was acutely intelligent, had an extraordinary way with words & Story - and worked extremely hard.
Jackie's reminisence shows that: when she came to South Westland, my neighbour & self picked her up from Whataroa, which school she'd just visited. She had on a green wig with...wildlife...in it (I especially remember the spider!) She'd talked with & read to the kids, and we were taking her to Franz, where she'd entrance the
pupils there next morning. And then head south to Fox, and right through to Jacob's River...and then back to Governors Bay by public transport the day after that...
She was awesome.
Her work is awesome, and will last generations yet- -
What does one say, when a true Canterbury icon is dead?
Margaret Mahy is no more- -
Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Nora Leggs,
+1!
That is quintessential southern landscape.Gudrun, I’ll be over in Chchch in v. early September – I’d love for you to take a photo of the house I grew up in (corner of Leaver Terrace & Bowhill Road, #160, because I cant stand to go back there…payment in $$$ or in kind- ka mihi n/n Keri
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Hard News: Good Intentions, in reply to Islander,
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Oh, bloody timeout function-
my added comment was"But love the punning!"
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Hard News: Good Intentions, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Y'know Ian - I've never met - or heard- or otherwise learned about ANYONE eating Egretta alba or any other kind of localised egret...the bird/s, while largish, never seem to have been targetted as kai...feathers, yes, especially breeding plumage ( us primitive natives caught 'em, plucked the feathers and released the adult birds in time for them to continue their breeding cycle. It was only the people with guns who decided killing was the best way to harvest....feathers...))
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Up Front: Let's Talk About Sex, Baby, in reply to Moz,
I think female sex bloggers are damaging to men, because they set expectations quite high on the whole communication and self-awareness front, and that’s just not on. Stiff upper lip, chaps, and don’t let them see your fear.
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Heh heh - o, wait a bit, heh fucking no way-weAGREE! -
Hard News: Good Intentions, in reply to Jeremy Eade,
Yes.
And Dickens.
In ANZ? Very few. -
Hard News: Good Intentions, in reply to Jeremy Eade,
Tempting (licking with double-tongue hot primate lips**) - what isss your case??
*Obviously I get your terror! Magnify it! Crunch it down on your opponent's eyes! Small price to pay-
**Oh?
You have met us? Primateophidians?
Maybe consult Joe?
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Hard News: Good Intentions, in reply to Jeremy Eade,
But what a lawyer you would have made.
fukkin’ terrifying one I theenk!
I'm really good at going for the guts - or jugular - of any argument.
Which is why no-0ne but my mother (& one of my sisters who has the same evilkiller instinct) will play Scrabble with me, sob..
Quite seriously, I have a lawyer's mind - but not a lawyer's need to be part of a hierarchy,
But, also seriously, assistance for creatures like me just simply wasnt available in the 1960s. We made our own strange outsider's way-