Wilderpeople adventures

So a couple of weeks ago this amazing thing happened where my fiancé, who is something of a clever clogs, won a competition via Air New Zealand for tickets to the red carpet premiere of Taika Waititi’s latest film “Hunt for the Wilderpeople”. I was pretty durn excited about it, I can tell you.

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Things I done wrote #2

Another digest of recent day job writings Interviews Courtney Barnett: Touring and reading Chatting with New Zealand’s Threatened Species Ambassador History Charles Reginald Shaw: Father, surveyor, farmer Commemorating peaceful protest – Parihaka

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Things I done wrote

A digest of day-job writings I’ve produced recently – Reading and literature High-rise: J. G. Ballard’s vertical zoo Patricia Grace: On Belonging Modern Modem Romance History Oxford to Oxford: The emigration of Henry Smith Land is the very soul of a tribal people Popular Culture Twenty years of Darcy’s wet shirt Long ago in a…

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Posts from library-land

Back when I was working as a librarian at Christchurch City Libraries I wrote a lot of stuff on the library blog – themed lists, reviews of books I’d read, television shows I’d seen and all sorts of literature and book-related things.

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Te Ahi Kaa, Radio New Zealand

This was an interview I did back when I was working at Christchurch City Libraries. I talk a bit about my work at the library and bit about blogging for Stuff which was still a kinda new gig for me at that point. I like that the intro compares me with Superman. My bit starts…

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