Aging is an extraordinary process, where you become free to be the person you always should have been – David Bowie.
Anyone who knows me, also knows that I am a sucker for books. If you do know me, but didn’t know that before now, then you can add that to the list of fascinating things you know about me. Bookshops and libraries give me secret joy. I feel a wee pleasurable flutter of anticipation in …
Continue reading This has got to be the Teeniest Bookshop in New Zealand.
I’ve got a bone to pick with Morgan Freeman. Or, rather, I have a bone to pick with whoever wrote the movie The Bucket List. Morgan Freeman was just the actor who got to say the lines about the list of things he wanted to do before he kicked the bucket. He and Jack Nicholson …
I have a darling little demon on the end of each hand, each one skipping along to their own tune. We we’re going to Tūranga - on the bus! And there will likely be treats, too. Grand-aunties who have lived a child-free life are useless at saying “no”. They know this, like they know apples …
He watches me as I get undressed, and put on my flannelette pyjamas. Defiantly, I tuck the top into the pants, in the way of the old and the very young. I am of an age where I will wear what I want, how I want, and where I want. Okay, maybe I’m not gloriously …
When a right-wing pale male politician in Australia in 2016 called a senior female journo a “mad fucking witch”, there were some women who thought “well, that’s one thing you got right”. And they created a group with that very name (https://www.facebook.com/MadFckingWitches/). Double, double toil and trouble, is exactly what they intend to bring down …
Continue reading Hail to the ‘Mad F8cking Witches’ of Australia.
Just when we thought that there had been enough outcry over ‘talented’ rapists being let off with light sentences, and that judges will now think twice about it, a New Zealand judge does it again! An eighteen-year-old sportsman sexually assaulted a fourteen-year-old girl, and then a few months later raped another girl. Who knows how …
Continue reading Here We Go Again! NZ Rapist too “Talented” to get more than a light sentence.
In a move entirely in keeping with their customary practise, the new English bosses of Aotearoa New Zealand forced the Waiohua Māori off their land, because in 1863 that’s what the English did. They then sold that land to another English person. The English weren’t the only Europeans to give indigenous people in newly occupied …
