Posts by Hilary Stace
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Also, I hate 3am feeds with all my soul, and I've only been doing them for three weeks. :)
Danielle, they don't last forever, and I'm impressed that you can feed, think and type at the same time.
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DRIVING AROUND AIMLESSLY
Actually they did. It was called going for a Sunday drive, and was a chance to use and show off the family car which had been cleaned and polished on Saturday.
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Philip, you might be right about the era. My earliest television memory is going over to watch the neighbours' television, as they were the first locals to get one. We watched a comedy featuring a maid called Hazel (as was the series). US culture, enormous houses and servants were all a bit of a shock. And then there was Lassie (who was apparently a male dog).
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I think black and white Dr Who was too scary for my little sister so didn't get to watch it very often, but I much preferred programmes with strong female characters anyway. Bewitched was my favourite, and I have strong memories of Patty Duke playing cousins, Maxwell Smart and the smarter Agent 99, and Ena Sharples and Elsie Tanners' dominance of Coronation Street.
Which is the more vigorous survivor, Coronation Street or Dr Who?
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A friend of mine who's ten years my senior still thinks the first (William Hartnell) was the best, and it was scarier in black and white than colour.
Agree. And the original daleks were pretty scary too.
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Yes, more of Marilyn please. She's one of our few public intellectuals and public policy experts, and her international work on women's unpaid work was years ahead of its time. She's never been valued much by NZ, perhaps because she's not a sports hero.
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I would like to know whether Garth McVicar ever reads research or policy reports or anything academic (which would inevitably contradict his beliefs) or is being anti-intellectual an important part of his public appeal?
What does he think about forgiveness? Does he give any credence to forgiveness as a precursor to healing?
Have Simon Collins on
Yes please. Not just on this issue but as a great journalist who not works for a major right-wing daily and also believes in social justice. In the neo-liberal 1990s his free newspaper City Voice was about the only sane Wellington media outlet.
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Giovanni, thanks for that wonderful clip from Annie Hall. I had forgotten that scene.
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Sacha, there is already some nice public art in that area in the form of the wind sculptures. The giant orange needle, the coloured boxes that require a bit of a gale to rotate all at once, the swaying grass and the much vandalised light circles. As well as the sea, the shoreline and the hills. I don't think we need anything on that hillside, apart from the 'Vote Annette King for Rongotai' notice that appears there briefly every 3 years.