rachelbarrowman.bsky.social
Writer, editor, Aro Valleyan
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I am appalled but not in the least surprised.
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The Guardian says green
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Sorrowscopes having a particularly dark week it seems –
Taurus: The good news is, you’ll be reincarnated. The bad news is, you’ll come back as yourself.
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How pathetic of them. Don't they recognise art when they see it?
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effing hell!
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Please admire my Ned Kelly tea towel from the Art Gallery of NSW
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I know someone who got into that and it very nearly destroyed their marriage.
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I hope you cursed them way worse than that in Italian.
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Having become an early riser (for which I'm primarily crediting sobriety, though it could just be age), I agree: I really enjoy it. (Most of it; not Gyles Beckford's intro music.)
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That is one way of looking at it, for sure.
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It’s become a point of pride to me that I have never dyed my hair, even when I started going grey in my 40s.
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Yep
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Have you read Catherine Chidgey's The Wish Child? It's brilliant – and chilling – on the insidious way in which the public mind is manipulated by an authoritarian regime, and people become complicit without noticing it happening.
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See also Aurelio Zen.
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I'll always prefer to stay in an old-school motel (though there are fewer and fewer of those, sadly).
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Same. I only ever used it once, eight years ago.
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Bought little paper bags of milk tokens either from the milk boy or ( think) at the dairy. Metal tokens at first, later plastic.
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On my flight down to Takaka recently (from Wellington) it was just me and the pilot on board so it wasn't an issue.
It was magical flight: clear blue sky, hardly a breath of wind all the way.
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If you fly with Golden Bay Air you have to declare your body weight when you book, and under the terms and conditions they can not allow you to board if your actual weight differs from what you declared.
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Especially since the planter boxes etc. were installed.
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I've pretty much never worn shoes in the house – certainly my own house – since I was a teen probably. To be honest, it's just to do with what feels comfortable and natural to me. (Would also take them off at work.)
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If you were in Wellington I'd suggest the Shelley Bay rye (which is not very helpful!): shellybaybaker.co.nz/product/100-...
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The ones I remember are the ones we sang as rounds: Row Row Row Your Boat, She'll be Coming Round the Mountain
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Ah, that's what that ubiquitous orange flower is called.
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Is that the 70s one featured in Stuff this morning? That looked fabulous. (I figured you’d be checking it out.)
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And once upon a time that was the standard price for, say, tarakihi fillets.
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The first – and last – fish I ever caught was a leatherjacket, from a dinghy in Queen Charlotte Sound when I was six. When it came up I screamed and dropped the line in the water. (They have a huge spike protruding from their back.)
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Sweet, nutty, succulent. I just pan-fry them in olive oil and butter, eat them with my fingers. A much underrated fish, imo – and therefore cheap: these were $12.99/kg.
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My small morning joy has been finding leatherjackets at the Cuba St fish shop this morning: not quite the same vibe, but I haven't seen them for a very long time.
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Did you know they’re about to launch a Streetdog 80? (I’m not a bike person; just heard one of the guys interviewed on RNZ recently.)
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I have not investigated the novels; will add them to the list.
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Clearly: I see they have Lean on Pete coming up soon.
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That sounds about right – it was intensely fragrant. I've just looked up Coe's Golden and see it was raised from a greengage: www.orangepippin.com/varieties/pl...
(I love this site, which I came across several years ago and used to be just about apples.)
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Actually I tell a lie. I picked a very large, very oval, gold-coloured plum from a tree in Golden Bay the other week and it was delicious. No idea of the variety.
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Yum. The only plums I have any respect for aside from omegas (the very best plum).
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Best apricots I've ever had were from the heritage trees at Stewart Town, Bannockburn.
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I share mine with Star Wars; and, more importantly, Audrey Hepburn.
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Ah yes! I knew there was someone else illustrious.
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Happy birthday to you! (and to my late little brother)
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Almost as good a name provenance story as Board of Canada.
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I know this because I just googled it. (Had never heard of them.)
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Adorable might be just what is needed right now.
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Thank you for the reminder: I've never seen Parks and Rec and it's all up on TVNZ+ (but will I get to the end before they start taking it down, as they are wont ...)
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Same
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I watched that thinking, is this really what everyone's going on about it? Or is there another interview I'm meant to be watching?
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What public holidays are for - catching up on things, and a bit (or a lot) of lazing about.
Me, I’ve been reading Deborah Levy and visiting my friend in a rest home.
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Not sure where the shame comes into that. Sounds very productive.
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I never stopped listening to my CDs. Though when I upgraded my pretty ancient CD player a little while ago it was a revelation. (Amp remains ancient – basic but great.)