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member name: Pat M.
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August 11, 2008 12:08 AM EDT --
Despite my previous article to the contrary I actually spend quite a lot of time in the kitchen, especially as my Darling Beloved has no idea how anything in there works.
Don't get me wrong. . . . more
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July 12, 2007 10:27 PM EDT --
First diary, and disclaimer.
Whadda you lookin’ ad?
Id had do habben. Afder dwo mondths of cold winds, grey rainy wedder and drying not do slip on der black slimy sduff growingk on der driveway, . . . more
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October 22, 2007 01:04 AM EDT --
To anybody who may have noticed my current lack of anything resembling an original post, I apologise as I have been a little preoccupied.
I have for the last six months or so, been in the market for . . . more
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June 23, 2008 12:48 AM EDT --
( This was written after reading John Phillip's Battle Of the Sexes pieces a couple of weeks ago. I know I'm way too late but, hey, I'm writing from Enzed. They don't call it . . . more
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July 07, 2008 01:35 AM EDT --
Take heed and please take pity
'pon this benighted soul.
For I endure such trials
that would give pause to the Heroes of old.
My poor Medusan visage
would turn mighty Perseus cold, . . . more
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March 27, 2007 02:04 AM EDT --
What can I say about New Zealand? Well, it’s not part of Australia. If you think I’ve said that before you’d be right. Thanks to people like Rob I’m gonna keep saying it too. Maybe . . . more
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April 19, 2007 01:02 AM EDT --
It's Peter Jackson's fault.
Before the world's richest hobbit decided to poach half the cast of Shortland Street as bit actors, we weren't that used to seeing our countrymen and -women . . . more
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July 27, 2007 01:57 AM EDT --
I apologise in advance if this diary descends into stream-of-consciousness drivel. I'd like to say it was for narrative effect, whereas I really just ran out of time and inclination.
I was casting . . . more
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September 10, 2007 01:53 AM EDT --
As a tribute to our Monday morning moderator Chris, I’d like to begin with a haiku reflecting on the ennui that is the modern human condition. Ahem:
Solitary caterpillar,
suspended
‘pon a . . . more
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April 04, 2007 11:40 PM EDT --
I guess I should start by repeating my previous caveats that you can't trust a bleedin' word that slithers off my keyboard.
Okay, I've prattled on previously about the most important . . . more
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April 11, 2007 01:36 AM EDT --
Okay, I've now covered Auckland and the North Island . That just leaves me with the South Island.
You can't miss the South Island, no matter how hard you try. It's the big appendix-shaped . . . more
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June 08, 2007 03:27 AM EDT --
Original disclaimer, and previous attempts. Okay, now we've got that out of the way...
Well, My Darling Beloved has returned from her European “training course” and had managed to . . . more
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June 02, 2008 05:05 AM EDT --
( Warning. This article, much like myself, contains moments of mild profanity .)
I blame the Aussies.
Here I am comfortably sitting down at the end of a hard day, watching television . . . more
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March 20, 2007 07:16 PM EDT --
A Gather friend enquired whether I would like to write about my little corner of the world, New Zealand. To ensure that nobody ever makes that mistake again, I present to you my Condensed history of New . . . more
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March 26, 2007 04:48 AM EDT --
Ok, this will be the first and last time I post an anything about me article. As it is none of them are actually weird, only four of these are actually directly about me, and one of them is not true anyway. . . . more
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May 18, 2007 05:51 AM EDT --
Okay, I’m taking the plunge. I’m going to try my hand at a weekly blog. Or fortnightly. Or monthly. Or whatever.
It may surprise you to know that I’m not doing this for you, dear reader. . . . more
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May 25, 2007 05:22 AM EDT --
As per my previous disclaimer, satisfaction is not guaranteed.
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I’ll never be a successful political journalist.
Last week Ron and Buddy advised me stay away from politics. I should have . . . more
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June 01, 2007 06:35 AM EDT --
If this is the first time you have wandered, Hansel- and Gretel-like, across an article of mine, it is only fair to bring to your attention my disclaimer and previous sad attempt at blogging.
Dunno . . . more
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May 02, 2007 11:44 PM EDT --
Enzed is a little bit of paradise and not at all a horrible place to live. Despite my previous rants to the contrary, I quite like it here. But other Kiwis must find the place extremely boring. That’s . . . more
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October 12, 2007 11:05 PM EDT --
When did we become a generation of crybabies?
I was watching TV the other day, or rather my Darling Beloved was and I had been co-opted into keeping her company on the couch. It was one of her favourite . . . more
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