Thursday, December 30, 2010

Mark Amery on Maurice Gee

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The 28th in this occasional series of reprints from Quote Unquote the magazine is from the June 1996 issue.   The intro read: Maurice Gee’...
Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Female communication

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In our house recently, a discussion about our eight-year-old and her best friend: Q: What is the age difference between X and Y? A: Six mont...
Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Competitive gardening: the sequel

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Competitive gardening is an idiotic concept, but has that ever stopped anyone from playing cricket? Way back in October I responded unchar...
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Hell is other people

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Christmas Eve: 18 adults here + 19 children. Christmas Day: 6 adults + LaughyKate + 4 children. Boxing Day: 4 adults + LaughyKate + 2 child...
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Friday, December 24, 2010

Xmas is a four-letter word

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But as we say here in New Zild, have a good one.
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Letter of the month

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A man writes to the Cleveland Stadium expressing concern at people attending games there who make paper darts out of the programmes: this, h...
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Thursday, December 23, 2010

Down on the farm

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A week ago I observed that here in the Waikato we needed rain, and lots of it. In the comments, Cactus Kate took issue with my reasoning: ...
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Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Sentence of the day

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Fergus Barrowman’s Taranaki Air Guitar. Monitor: IIML Twitter
Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Happy birthday, Frank Zappa

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He would be 70 today if he was still with us (he died on 4 December 1993). To mark the occasion, tonight at 10 p.m. on Concert FM James Gar...

Prime time

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Fun fact: 2011 is a prime number.   Prime numbers are surprisingly common : 1951 was a prime-number year and so were 1973, 1979, 1987, 1993...