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James, the miracle

10 Nov 2023 5 min read

For Fawkes' sake

For Fawkes' sake

I’ve had a lot of time to think about fireworks - mostly in bed at night, gritting my teeth, at my previous home in Upper Hutt. Somewhere, across the back fence, lived a household of chronic firework nutters. I never figured out which address was theirs. I often wondered

05 Nov 2023 9 min read

Nerd Sunday: Wai oh wai! What's next for our water?

I will never be anything but a small town girl. From my little house, my teenage son makes a ten minute walk to school, slouching there and back on spindly legs below his shorts. When I come home from my job in the city at night, stepping off the carriage

29 Oct 2023 10 min read

On the eve

I own a new house. It's part of row of houses in a new subdivision in Upper Hutt. It's little, sure, but it's all that most people dream of: warm, decent, a foundation for dignity and security. The day I moved in, that a

13 Oct 2023 1 min read

Four stories of the lost

07 Oct 2023 10 min read

Thought for the day, 4 October 2023

I’ve been musing. Everyone knows (hopefully) that the right to vote was hard won: wrested from the grabby hands of older white blokes with property. That's stuff we learned at school, yeah? Civil rights, workers rising, protesters dying, yada yada yada. And, of course, Aotearoa was first

04 Oct 2023 2 min read

Nerd Monday: Tearing up the rule book?

Nerd Monday: Tearing up the rule book?

A word of warning. Regulation is a super complex area with a bunch of experts, and I'm definitely not one of them. But I've been reading and discovering some ideas. Hold on to your hat!

18 Sep 2023 14 min read

I'll give you an earful

10 Sep 2023 7 min read

A blast from the past

A blast from the past

When I was at school, I was a mostly unexceptional student. I was resigned to it, and not overly bothered, but every now and then I had an inkling that I was smarter than my marks, as well as a hankering to prove myself. When the fifth form English research

20 Aug 2023 2 min read

Remember, remember

The problem with David Seymour is he's actually really smart. Guy Fawkes was still a thing when I was a kid. There were fireworks, of course, and that was fun; but you also made a human effigy to throw onto the fire. It seemed kind of messed up,

18 Aug 2023 2 min read

For my boy

13 Aug 2023 3 min read

A note about notes

I just did something possibly silly but also joyful: bought a cheapie electric piano on TradeMe. I'd promised myself I'd have my house fully unpacked and clean and pristine first - then I broke my own promise. I taught myself to play piano as a wee

07 Aug 2023 1 min read

Ambulances, cliffs

Normally, I try not to bust things out in haste. Haste is a byproduct of anger. For me, at least, if the anger isn’t given it’s due - allowed to run a little of its course - then the quality of the words is less. Tonight, I don’

30 Jul 2023 4 min read

From a schoolgirl in 1992, who will always want what she hasn't got

I just coined a phrase in my mind. Sineád was the patron saint of the fucked up but unable to back down. I wasn't so much younger than her, but I didn't quite get it at the time, in sixth form, in 1992. I’m still

28 Jul 2023 1 min read

High functioning

25 Jul 2023 2 min read

Nerd Sunday: Going gangbusters

We've heard a bunch of reckons from politicians. What does the evidence say?

23 Jul 2023 14 min read

Thought for the day, 19 July 2023

I believe in reason, in being reasonable, even if I don't always practise what I preach. I'm not aligned to any group, but I'm a left voter. I try not to be slavish about it, or tribal. I know batshit people on the left

19 Jul 2023 1 min read

Takiwātanga

02 Jul 2023 7 min read

A sequel

Please be warned that this post is deliberating confronting.

10 Jun 2023 11 min read

Of memes and metaphors

It's unpopular opinion o'clock. Years ago, at university, I read The Handmaid's Tale. It was memorable, mostly because I actually finished it. I was not a gifted student. We’ll leave it at that. It was memorable for other reasons too. I suppose I

02 Jun 2023 3 min read

Obliging

27 May 2023 11 min read

Thought for the day, 17 May 2023

I don't yet know what happened. No one does. I get that. But we know it happened in a doss house, not in an upscale hotel or a golf club or a koru lounge - and that the people who flung themselves from the windows weren't

17 May 2023 1 min read

Words

Marama Davidson did not use the right words. She had been hit by a man on a motorbike, and hurt; and perhaps in another time or place, a public assault on a woman leader might have garnered concern. But this is New Zealand, and this is now, and Davidson did

28 Mar 2023 2 min read

Thought for the day, 24 March 2023

Posie Parker. I don't feel qualified to weigh in on the visa issue. I don't know what the rules are, whether they're reasonable, or whether they've been correctly applied. I feel fully qualified to weigh in on the Nazism issue. The rules

24 Mar 2023 1 min read

Reparation

Two cautions. The first is that this is a violent and traumatic story. The second is that I'm not a lawyer, so I've stuck as closely to others' expertise as I can. Any errors are entirely mine.

19 Mar 2023 30 min read

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