Posts by Carol Stewart

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  • Southerly: Wedding Bells,

    I'm with you all the way on this one!
    It is great that people can make their own rules to a much greater extent now. I've been to a wedding in a cave, a wedding on a cliff top and a civil union, and all were fabulous.

    Wellington • Since Jul 2008 • 830 posts Report

  • Hard News: All your Trade are belong to us,

    "I quite liked the star ratings given to films broadcast on tele in The Listener, for example.

    Where else do people look? Or have you all given up on the teev?"

    Well, Karen, my only advice is NOT to look in the DomPost film review section. Phillip Wakefield lost his remaining shreds of credibility last week when he gave the execrable 'The Da Vinci Code' a four star rating .. the film was even worse than the book, and that is quite something.

    Wellington • Since Jul 2008 • 830 posts Report

  • Busytown: If you build it...,

    Am I the only person here to have not loved Under the Mountain? (the book, that is; haven't seen the televersion).
    I adore almost all Maurice Gee's fiction, but I just couldn't muster up the the requisite suspension of belief for Under the Mountain. It just got sillier and sillier.

    Wellington • Since Jul 2008 • 830 posts Report

  • Busytown: If you build it...,

    I forgot to say, Jolisa, many thanks for this charming, thoughful and literate post. A new post from you is always a treat.

    Wellington • Since Jul 2008 • 830 posts Report

  • Busytown: If you build it...,

    Jolisa, I loved Wallace Stegner's ode to the dump - glorious! Thank you!
    This essay would have pride of place in an anthology of dump literature. We 've also recently enjoyed Stig of the Dump, by Clive King; and I think Margaret Mahy may have set a story or two at the dump.

    Wellington • Since Jul 2008 • 830 posts Report

  • Busytown: If you build it...,

    I grew up in a small town, and my brother and I had free rein of the town rubbish dump! Andrew Henry would have loved it.

    Wellington • Since Jul 2008 • 830 posts Report

  • Hard News: This whole, glorious trainwreck,

    >As long as it is not about the Sensible Sentencing Trust.
    >Who's for setting a Senseless Sentencing Trust?

    Yes, the name of the Sensible Sentencing Trust is up there with the Moral Majority... take that, you immoral minority!

    Wellington • Since Jul 2008 • 830 posts Report

  • Hard News: This whole, glorious trainwreck,

    >As long as it is not about the Sensible Sentencing Trust.
    >Who's for setting a Senseless Sentencing Trust?

    Yes, the name of the Sensible Sentencing Trust is up there with the Moral Majority... take that, you immoral minority!

    Wellington • Since Jul 2008 • 830 posts Report

  • Hard News: This whole, glorious trainwreck,

    Oh, you Aucklanders do have all the fun!

    Wellington • Since Jul 2008 • 830 posts Report

  • Island Life: Abusage,

    Au contraire, Juha, this blog is where the pedants come out to play!
    A beauty just heard on Kathryn Ryan's programme: she asked someone (apropos of rest homes) whether the guidelines were 'adequate enough'.

    Wellington • Since Jul 2008 • 830 posts Report

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