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ROL, Benedict Cumberbatch, Star Trek, good books, great films, nature and science. Here to ignore the dumpster fire that is our planet for a few precious moments. She/her, zero tolerance for arseholes.
Alt text - a fox with a mouse sandwich and The Folly
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Yup.
Just dismantled the rangehood to clean it, so yeah. It's done not, gross anymore, but now it's like 4 in the afternoon.
I want my day back
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Or loosers named Henry with a meth addiction...
Some parents are idiots
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What I mean by this is that there's so such thing as conservative values in this era, and they are being treated as the hateful bigots they are.
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Oh god I thought I was exaggerating about the # of covers
But I just checked it out on Mitchell's website and apparently there are 605 recorded covers of this song
605!
If you really hated someone you could send them a different version every day for 18 months & still not have listened to them all
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I was stymied anyway, the video wasnt available in Aotearoa.
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Mwahahahaa I'm going to put some Bic Runga on and watch it with the sound down.
Evil plan foil
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You should be.
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Yoicks.
That should have lost her artistic points.
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Oh god that's right.
Pedantitry excused. I always forget the title because it makes even less sense than the song.
Is that a local reference to a park where people took lots of drugs because being high is the only explanation for how dumb this song is.
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Worst original song is definitely Someone left the Cake Out in the Rain, though.
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Worst cover ever is every single cover of Big Yellow Taxi.
So many wannabes trying to be deep, just churning out a tepid piece of crap. There must have been at least 3 or 4 dozen shitty covers put out since 1970s
I am a massive Joni Mitchell fan, but tbh it's my least favourite song of hers anyway.
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My mind wanders if I try to do audio books, I don't focus.
Besides, if I start getting shit done while reading it feels like a slippery slope to not being able to say 'sod off I'm reading, get your own dinner' ๐
And then how will the children learn to be self sufficient?
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I've been wanting to try these they look extremely fun but our library only has them as audio books ๐
If I wanted to listen to someone talking at me for five hours I'd call my mum
Sorry mum...
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That seems fair enough!
It's beautiful
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Now in moving Scottivision..
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I know poet/editor who used to slap my hand like a nun piano teacher if he caught me using nasty little common dashes.
Suffice to say the lesson has stuck ๐
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Anne Parrish was a children's writer and Newbery medal winner? Runner up maybe?
They are pretty dated now.
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Ugh, I did not know about the Ayn Rand connection ๐ฌ
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Dear Google,
While you're busy making fraudulent maps anyway, please remove Aotearoa New Zealand altogether before the Orange Nazi decides we should be annexed as part of Hawaii.
Ngฤ mihi.
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@marthawells.com new Witch King!
Knave of Diamonds, the new Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes by Laurie R King
A new Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch
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I got this for Christmas ๐
I haven't read it yet, my short ones got to it first and now it's waiting beside my bed.
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Well done to the absolute hero offscreen who moved furniture to aid her escape!
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I can agree with every point you make while still hating it a teeny bit!
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Bwahahahaaa
Well at least in Welly you have a 1 in 3 chance that if you wear a big coat and hold your arms out like a sail, the prevailing southerly will do the spinning for you.
Like a rooster weather vane on a roof.
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I know right!
48 hours ago it was too hot to sleep, with so little wind to move air through the windows we contemplated going to bed with the French doors wide open.
And now it's blowing a southerly, raining and we're all diฤฃging jerseys out of the cupboards.
Make up your mind Wellington
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Hah!
I just this minute put down a T Kingfisher I've been looking forward to because I wasn't feeling the doom-laden vibe.
Now I just need to decide on whether a quicky absurd paranormal romcom, or a period detective will hit the spot this afternoon....
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0. Me too, and some of them quite recently ๐
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Fox in the Forest is one of our favourite games and your artwork in it is delectable โค๏ธ