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Everything is fine
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It's raining, I have the hip hop music on the itunes, coffee and toast with freshly-made lemon curd (made by me, even), and am indulging in the fun part of the software development life cycle (yes, there is one, at least in Heatherland). There's leftover rogan josh (made by me!) in ( Read more... ) -
Colleen Donaldson 1945 - 2009
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The family eulogy, written & presented November 26th, 2009
Hi, I'm Heather, Colleen's eldest daughter. Today I'm speaking on behalf of Colleen's husband, Bill, and the children - Peter, Sheryl and myself.
Firstly the family would like to take this opportunity to thank the wonderful ( Read more... ) -
100 Years Of Solitude
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Two characteristics stand out in this house, even now. I assume its shape and composition contribute to the strange noises in the night. Of course my apartment exhibits its fair share of creaks and crashes, but it takes a lot to compete with the city's constant white noise, and brick ( Read more... ) -
Sweet, sour, salty, bitter
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After a lie-in, I spent the morning padding about the house in my pyjamas and my mother's slippers, mopping the floor and scraping dog hair off the sofa, while Dad mowed the lawn. Such is the pastoral lifestyle. Mum's back in hospital, after being finally strong-armed into calling up ( Read more... ) -
War and Peace
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Although I've had lots of fascinating trajectories on which to lapse lyrical over the last couple of years, the final step - the act of sitting down and writing - has been repelled, very much as two magnets' like poles drive each other away. On those rare occasions I've written ( Read more... ) -
My favourite things
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Like most aspiring somethings, I harbour ever-present grand plans of overhauling my web presence; transforming it into a mighty virtual empire, connected and collated into a representation of my life's achievements. Granted, at that point, the sum total of my life's achievements may ( Read more... ) -
I miss this
I've just been trawling through an old friend's livejournal, back six years to when we met. Posts that refer to me and comments I left trigger my own landmarks, and remind me of my own timeline in Auckland ( Read more... ) -
A change is not as good as a rest
The flatmate-kindred-spirit-combo left for foreign shores on Friday; her departure as fine, friendly and inebriatory as her tenure. She left in her stead a stack of sold & discarded possessions, and over the previous week each room has had been by turns immaculate, and a construction zone. The construction zone eventually settled into a large ( Read more... ) -
Some things that are AWESOME
Three days ago I got an email from Frontier Touring saying "update your details and win tickets!", so I did. They asked "which act would you most like to see?" and after some consideration I responded "Nine Inch Nails, the last of my top 20 that I have not yet had the privilege to see live". I submitted my info, clicked through to the home page, ( Read more... )