Depressing

I’m at the start of yet another cycle – I think this is the 46th since we started, and it’s the 24th since the last time I was officially pregnant.
I’m considered infertile now as well as being a recurrent miscarrier. There appears to be very little hope left. Combine that with Podna’s current [...]

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Um…

Slightly laughable article today about being gay in Gore.
This is my favourite bit.  A local cafe owner says:
“I don’t know why it is, but I definitely haven’t noticed any gay couples coming in who are local. I think Mikey Havoc only said [Gore is the gay capital of NZ] because gay rhymes with Gore.”
Rhymes? Perhaps it’s the accent.

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The missing link

The Independent today has an article about why we walk on two legs. Apparently the latest theory is that it’s more energy efficient once we developed longer legs.  But naysayers are complaining that this explains why we kept walking upright, but not why we started to walk upright.
The answer, I has it.  They only need to ask me.
It’s the other way round. We stopped walking on four legs [...]

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Finally

David Benson-Pope is gone
I liked this bit:
When [Helen Clark] had compared answers Mr Benson-Pope had given in Parliament with answers to questions put by the media on Monday, she realised the situation could not be sustained.
What she means is, this time she found a lie to the House which even she cannot explain away or [...]

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Well I never

I’ve just been filling in some gaps in my early family history file, just fleshing out some early rellies by marriage, and lo and behold one of them plugs right in
No wonder I liked Warwickshire seeing as how I own it (ha ha, if only) – Guy de Beauchamp (1278-1315) is my 20 [...]

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Another sign I’m getting old

When I was in charge of some halls of residence in a British university, obviously the subject of drug use came up, and we would pretty well have to enforce some fairly but not completely strict rules.  For instance, if a student was caught with illegal drugs, whatever our own views on the matter, the [...]

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Contemporary fiction

The other day I was in need of a book so I dropped into Whitcoulls.  Not my normal preference, but I was in an area where that was what was available. And they sell lots of books so surely there was one that might suit me.And I found what I keep finding at the [...]

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Things people say

Today I spent the morning with a client who likes me to help her keep her website up to date.  It’s content rather than systems, so, normally not my bag, but I don’t mind and she seems to like it.  Today we were editing her members directory (actually that phrase is funny in itself) and [...]

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White night

Over the weekend we discovered that one of the servers we look after, the one at the place I work in the afternoons, had had a hard disk failure. For the non-techo types, we have a RAID array of disks, which means that disks are arranged in pairs that mirror each other (in our case), [...]

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Interesting blogosphere

I’ve been browsing some of my fave blogs.
Today in NHS Blog Doctor I found a post from last week where he discusses elderly care. I seem to have managed to arrange matters, for the time being at least, so that I am on the opposite side of the world from my parents AND my [...]

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Wanda Harland is Tops

Click here to find out how the statement “Uranus is full of gas” is both factual and scientific.  Who knew

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Wimbledon

Wimbledon doesn’t make it onto the free-to-air TV here, presumably not enough people are interested.  It’s the only tennis tournament I watch, and I do miss it.  Since coming to live in NZ I have lost touch with who the greats are although I am dimly aware of the Williams sisters and names like Roger Federer.
At [...]

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Bad habits

Marewa Glover makes an interesting point today.  If you’re successfully rearing your children in a smokefree environment, does it help to have a load of anti-smoking publicity on the TV, billboards etc?
It reminds me a little of me. At the tender age of 43 I am still a chronic nailbiter. Despite periods of non-nailbiting, [...]

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That’s entertainment

Having been dismissive of daytime TV for twenty-five years or more, I have to say Podna and I are fast becoming devotees of Trisha currently screening on UKTV (at night! yay!!).  That is, we’re in the middle of our second episode, although it’s been on for ages. It is an amazing window on [...]

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Doesn’t look like I’ll be buying an iPhone

I watched this video from Reuters via the Herald showing a tech commentator demoing the iPhone.  Watched is the operative word – I don’t have sound on my laptop at the moment (can you believe…) so admittedly I have no idea whether he was saying “this is really cool” or “this is a bit naff.” [...]

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