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Funktionslust at the beach

On April 3, 2022April 5, 2022 By Katrina8 Comments

Is there anything more joyous to watch than a dog revelling in the freedom of being at the beach? Running flat out, smiling like the devil’s on their heels but knowing that it doesn’t have a hope in hell of catching them. Today, we finished daylight saving here in New Zealand, and the day was …

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The release of the thug duck gang

On March 21, 2022March 22, 2022 By Katrina11 Comments

They started off as cute fluffy ducklings, as all ducklings do. These little bundles of maximum cuteness were a delight for the eyes, and time watching them was not time wasted. Then they grew up and terrorised the neighbourhood. Okay, that last bit was an irresistible rhetorical flourish, but they did end up being unexpectedly …

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Patrick has gone

On February 10, 2022February 10, 2022 By Katrina29 Comments

Sadly, on Sunday 30 January, my cat, Patrick, went on his last adventure. He popped out through the cat door around 9.30pm, and never came home. I later learned that that he had been found dead in the neighbour’s yard upon their arrival home from holiday a couple of days after his disappearance. I looked …

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Walking the long way round in pictures

On January 30, 2022 By Katrina14 Comments

As I've mentioned before, I live close to a 'red zone' in Christchurch. A red zone is an area that got totally munted in the earthquake of 2011, and the land was deemed uneconomic to remediate and rebuild on, so all the homes there got demolished and removed. Much of the red zone is by …

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How much should we tolerate in the cause of free speech?

On January 16, 2022January 16, 2022 By Katrina12 Comments

A wee while ago I wrote that I had joined the Free Speech Union of New Zealand¹. Like many others, I’m fed up with ‘cancel culture’, and the wokies who pay homage to it. They want to turn the world into a big bland tin of safe grey paint, and it’s boring the tits off …

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Elliot’s amazing world of vacuum cleaners

On January 5, 2022 By Katrina8 Comments

I had the great pleasure of meeting Elliot the other day. Elliot is the seven year old son of the nephew’s friend, whom I had already heard much about and his amazing world of vacuum cleaners. So when the nephew brought a boy with a big smile into my flat, I was charmed to finally …

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Happy New Year!

On January 1, 2022January 1, 2022 By Katrina7 Comments

Happy New Year! I followed the same tradition last night that I have maintained for many years now, and did nothing. Being only a ‘mildly social’ person, I’m happy in my mildly curmudgeonly ways, which I don and discard in no particular order, and at will, according to the occasion. What can I say? I’m …

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Cat antics and cat tactics

On December 29, 2021 By Katrina15 Comments

The cat put his foot in my breakfast this morning. I should have been disgusted, because who knows where that foot has been. Upon weighing it up, however, I decided that I’d rather polish off my breakfast than be disgusted by the cat putting his foot in it. Now that I’m more than sixty and …

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We’re all connected, no matter where we are.

On December 20, 2021December 20, 2021 By Katrina9 Comments

We’re all connected. No matter how independent we may think we are, we have connections that impact us on our journey in this world which we can be both barely, and very, aware of. Everything we do touches someone or something else.   Recently, via Speak Up For Women NZ, I sponsored a young woman …

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The great mushroom fail

On November 18, 2021November 18, 2021 By Katrina9 Comments

It was supposed to be foolproof - or as close to it as possible. But it didn’t take into account my superpower. Not many people know this, but I have the ability to kill plants at fifty paces by doing nothing more than having them in my vicinity. Actually, I tell a lie – most …

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