Posts by Isabel Hitchings
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I keep walking past the big box set of Sapphire and Steel in Whitcoulls and just not being sure if I dare. I don't remember the plots but I do remember the fear.
The Dr Who episode that haunts me the most is "The Empty Child". My chest tightens a little just thinking of it. Lovely stuff.
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My uni years were a litany of taking things too far, too seriously and too personally. If I had a time machine the first thing I'd do would be go back and hit myself upside the head and say "stop being such a DORK".
Then dinosaurs. And also rock and roll.
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It has a slo-mo replay mode!
I don't follow rugby so I have no idea who I'm perving at but a perve is a perve, right?
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Typing as I think here but...I think it's pretty different when you're at university level and you've got students who have chosen to study science and have specialised a fair bit already. If you're teaching them "facts" you can be pretty sure they want to learn those particular facts, that they have a purpose for knowing those facts and that they will easily see how those facts were discovered in the first place. It's a bit different for kids at primary and secondary school doing general science because they have to and, for them, I do think process needs to come first.
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I don't think the point of education (in science or any other area) should be about rote learning facts so much as that in the teaching of research and analysis methods it's inevitable that facts will be discovered.
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Maybe I'm oblivious but in my 17 or so years living in Christchurch I can count on my fingers the number of times I've felt threatened or unnerved. Admittedly I've spent less time out at night since I had kids but for the decade before that I spent a lot of time out at night often alone and always felt fine - even when I lived in a really scungy house near the Arts Centre in town.
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Danielle- I think there's a middle ground of "this awesome song helped me through some tough times - maybe it can do the same for you." which is worth striving for.
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I'm fairly sure that 35 is at least 10 years too young to be middle-aged. And I'm going to keep telling myself that.
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I chose to wear the tie of my high-school uniform because if you didn't wear the tie you had to have an open necked blouse which was very chilly of a morning.
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If one was lying in the gutter wearing a corset could one get up again without assistance?