Posts by Tamsin6
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I'll add my sympathies too on behalf of my partner Vivian, who to her ongoing dismay seems to attract mosquitoes like some kind of lightning rod.
I'm not sure they were mossies - the usually make me swell up and itch like crazy. These were more like little midge-y type things. But nothing is a patch on the sandflies that used to bite me at Papatowai - those things were evil.
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The thing about pubic plumage is that everyone seems to have an opinion. When I was being shaved in preparation for the C section birth of my first daughter, the rather lovely nurse asked me (pityingly, I see in retrospect) if I wanted her to have a general tidy up down there while she was at it. "Knock yourself out" I said, or words to that effect. I mean, they were about to slice me open, rummage around for my daughter, whip her out, and stitch me up again. In contemplation of that, I hadn't really considered trimming the (by now rather extensive) shrubbery. Did you know that ALL your hair stops falling out, but doesn't stop growing, while you are pregnant? Now you do. Consider 9 months of luxuriant undergrowth. Not sure why she bothered - at that moment I had no plans to let anyone else near the vicinity for some considerable time.
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I'm back in the UK after my first trip home in 5 years. Was fantastic weather, had lovely Christmas with family together for the first time in 10 years, and had a chance to show my two girls a little bit of New Zealand life. Ngaio met 3 cousins she hadn't seen before (including the latest addition, 7 weeks old at Christmas time) and was re-acquainted with those she hadn't seen since she was 6 months old. Sinead was in heaven meeting all her big cousins - the more the better to her! Interesting seeing NZ after so long away, and to realise that there is so much different now that I feel a little more like a stranger than I ever did before. This latest family gathering will be the last that will include my dad, so very sad about that, but also very quietly contented that he had this time with all of us, and with my girls.
Felt a little bit like a child abuser putting the girls through that long, long, long flight - we have been back 4 days, and they are still not caught up on sleep. I had the most uncomfortable flight I can remember - having been bitten to bits the evening before we left NZ, sitting on the verandah of our friends house on the Te Atatu peninsula. Happy days...
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Islander, I love the little regional differences too - perhaps tan square is a South Island name - I remember being very surprised by finding a version with chocolate chips - my favourite bit is the (much less sweet than the topping of goo) crunchy cake crumb part sprinkled on the top. I always assumed they were the same stuff as the base the goo was spread on.
Dyan - my Nan used to make the most awesome walnut cake. She had a walnut tree in her garden and had to find some way to use them all up - preferably with as much lovely golden syrup (rather than all treacle) as possible.I don't remember cheese and onion sandwiches, but being originally from Southland, I have a soft spot for cheese rolls...
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When I was in NZ in October, perhaps the most delicious thing I ate was a proper lovely Neenish tart. But I could not find a decent tan square anywhere. Are these a thing of the past? Possibly only a regional treat (I only made it to Tauranga this trip). Suggestions please for when I return at Christmas. I'm desperate.
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Speaker: Dancing with Dingoes, Part II, in reply to sally jones,
Hmmm - cake as the gateway drug...first pumpkin muffins, then a little soup, and then full on, actual, roasted pumpkin...but it MUST be slathered in gravy. This is not optional.
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Speaker: Dancing with Dingoes, Part II, in reply to sally jones,
And your point Tamsin6? Well, apart from roasts and soups.
My point Sally? I didn't really have a point. I guess I was too hungry from the cake porn to have a point. Just that I really used to like the pumpkin and chocolate muffins at the Boulevard Bakehouse. Even though (back then at least) I didn't think I really liked pumpkin at all. Roasted or in soup.
Dyan -
But I like old colonial cooking – I have a NZ book from about 1903 I use a lot
My mum still uses her old school cookbook, from the 1950's - excellent recipes and I think when I come home for Christmas I may have to photocopy vast chunks of it...
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I have also eaten pumpkin cake. And pumpkin with chocolate chunk muffins from the Boulevard Bakehouse in the Christchurch Arts Centre (do they exist any more?) - this is practically the only way I ever eat pumpkin. In cake.
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OK, so now I am EXTREMELY hungry. And I have no cake! Damn you and your cake porn, Dyan….
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Up Front: That's Inappropriate!, in reply to Tess Rooney,
Short skirts highlight the upper thighs. They skim just below the buttocks. As a woman walks in a short skirt her hip movement is accentuated and her thighs can be seen rubbing one another.
None of this causes promiscuity.
However it does send a sexual signal. I’m saying we should reign in teenagers from giving out sexual signals. If you disagree with me, fine.
Tess, I so disagree with you. Quite apart from your lack of reasoned argument about why young girls should be prevented from giving out sexual signals (why not? They have a sexuality, it is theirs, why can't they explore it?), on the one hand you mention upthread that netball skirts are short for practicality - I've worn them, they ain't practical - shorts now, for netball, would be excellent, and wouldn't lead to those irritating little boys looking up your skirt as you play netball - presumably trying to get a load of all those sexual signals you are sending with those thighs rubbing together.
Also, around here, in a very Muslim populated area of East London, trousers are discouraged in certain schools, unless paired with a shapeless skirt or tunic to completely conceal the pubic area. That way, I suppose, we could pretend young girls don't have a pubis, and therefore no-one (including the girl herself presumably) will think of using it. FFS.