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E Day Plus 5
From the correspondence of D F Mamea, Esquire, newly of Northland. The Kitten makes the best of her circumstances. Dearest Lovely Wife Dave the Chimney Sweep arrived and went to put a temporary fix on...
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Whangarei
The Dog on her old bed on her new deck. Would you believe that I’ve moved to a town that I first visited* only several months earlier? It feels like The Goddess‘ Five Year plan pulled a sack over my...
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Boxwatch: The Return of Fox and Dana
By Source (WP:NFCC#4), Fair use, $3 The original run of The X-Files was not quite the appointment viewing that Law & Order was. When I did watch it, I thrilled to the case-of-the-week but quickly...
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Mod Cons
Relocating Fortress Mamea to a rural location means a little bit of doing without. Cellphone reception is spotty — upon departing the property, cellphones tend to trill with backlogged txts and...
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Mammoth (and some housekeeping)
Housekeeping here. First, my apologies for the cliffhangers — in case you were wondering: the buggered burner: Dave the Chimney Sweep rebuilt the burner and re-installed it a fortnight later. The time...
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Stalk and Leaf
I’m obsessed with Jerusalem cherry: I’m walking the dogs, I see it, I pull it; I’m dancing through the Orange Grove, inhaling its citrus fragrance when I see a certain leaf shape and I stop and pull it...
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500
That’s the number of posts I’ve written, including this one. On the not-too-distant horizon is this website’s tenth anniversary. Check out The Dog before this blog began: The Dog, Jan05 — and now:...
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KINGSWOOD: a reading
Holden Kingswood (1971-1974 HQ series) What’s the connection between film director Katie Wolfe, writer Jo Smith, Radio New Zealand producer Jason Te Kare, theatre practitioner Louise Tu’u, and...
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Narcissism is —
— when one sees there’s a film out called Risen and one immediately assumes one’s grand plan to make a feature-length adaptation of Sure to Rise, one’s short comedy about erectile dysfunction, has been...
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KINGSWOOD: post-reading
By Sicbird – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=39196356 After a two-day workshop under the direction of Katie Wolfe and Ahi Karunaharan, with dramaturg Jo Smith...
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Box Watch: The Flash (2014 onwards)
By Source (WP:NFCC#4), Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=44059392 … a man who moves so fast that his life is an endless gallery of statues — Saga of the Swamp Thing, 24 May 1984,...
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Dog Cuts
Back in the Big Smoke, The Dog and I had a basic three-mile running route that I called, with writerly flair, the fleur-de-lis. Fleur-de-lis: ‘X’ marks the start and finish point. (I’ve just remembered...
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Box Watch: Marvel’s Jessica Jones
By Source, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=47431125 Ten episodes in and I feel like I’m on a hamster wheel where: our heroine, Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter) catches her nemesis,...
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Crawl
The other week I was in the Auckland CBD and I thought, Aw, it’s early in the day — I should be able to hop on to the motorway and get to where I’m going in a jiffy. Nah-ah: I quickly found myself in a...
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Box Watch: The Good Wife
I was looking forward to the week’s viewing when I realised that The Good Wife ended last week. Hard to believe it’s been seven years since housewife Alicia Florrick (Julianna Margulies) stood by her...
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Tight Spot
Now that the cavalry element have settled on the same property as The Goddess, they’ve been finding ways to make mischief. The Exmoor Mini in particular has provided entertainment (for me, at least;...
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Go To
Contrary to popular belief, when energy, motivation, and/or creativity is low in the Writing Cave Keep, I do not resort to singing along with Ms Krall ad infinitum. If it’s a technical challenge, I...
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Hop — Jump
By Richard Giles from Perth, Australia – Beijing Olympics: Men’s Triple Jump Panorama of Idowu Phillips, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4638191 Some projects come about...
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A to Z
Okay, so all I’ve got is a beginning and ending. No problem, I tell myself. I’ve no idea specifically what happens between the beginning and ending I’ve written but all I need do is reread what I have...
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