Posts by Geoff Lealand
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@Jacqui; I agree--this thread is a bit all over the shop. The problem is where to put stuff (such as my aside re the Phoenix Foundation). A bit like finding a space for useless ornaments. Perhaps we need a higher authority to come in for a dusting and tidy-up.
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Thanks, Sacha. See you at the picnic?
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If Samuel Flynn Scott is in the neighbourhood, The Word magazine (UK) 'Something for the Weekend' for Jan 13 features The Phoenix Foundation with a link to Youtube and their 'Now Hear This' CD.
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I should have put it here but a piece I wrote on What We Did In the Holidays has just been posted on kiwiboomers.com
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@Rob Stowell. Your dad taught me a course or two in American Lit. at UoC. I recall him taking a bunch of us to a Bicentenary concert led by Aaron Copland in Christchurch.
I also think he was also a Bay of Islands neighbour of a paramour of my old mum--a bounder and a cad named Max. Ring a bell? -
Slightly Foxed was closed but I found it in a store selling antique clothing in the Victorian Precinct. My daughter went gaga over the clothes. I think that Oamaru is one of the most interesting towns in NZ. The olde worldy stuff does get close to twee but those old buildings are just magnificent. I used to dream about such a place.
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@Joe . Yes, the ghost of Janet does linger around Oamaru. An odd coincidence in discovering this book was that we had just the day before we had trekked across a paddock to see the grave where the drowned of NZ's biggest maritime disaster were buried (131 on the Tararua which foundered off the Catlins in the 1800s)
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Which means that there are treasures still to be found in NZ secondhand stores. Better than the Kaikoura bookshop owner who had never heard of Graham Greene!
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Amongst the things we picked up in our South Island travels (Oamaru) was a tiny book of William Falconer's "The Shipwreck and Other Poems", published in 1836 by Tilt and Bogue (great name, eh) of Fleet Street. Apparently Mr Tilt and Mr Bogue published the first graphic novel "The Adventures of Mr Obadiah Oldbuck" (also 1836).
An interesting local connection is that this book used to be owned by Pat Lawlor, a significant figure in the Wellington literary scene in the 1920s and 1930s. -
My university pretty much tells you that you have to do you duty (obligations to lectures, exams etc are not a valid excuse), and then they demand you hand over the daily fee.. Bastards!