anything litty set in Dunedin please send it my way. I am Dunedin. Otepoti is me lol, but also, I really am Dunedin, I am also Otago, but I am definitely not Queenstown, the Ravensbourne of Central Otago. Anyhu my lit/MS services available to the writing public now includes Dunedin as a specialty.
'One thing I know from reading his memoir 147 times is that learning to drive changed Shayne Carter’s life for the better.... Poets almost never drive, which is for the best. Too busy making daisy chains, looking at the lupins and starting fights.' www.odt.co.nz/lifestyle/ma...
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I was chased out of Brockville once, writes Talia Marshall.
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Talia Marshall writes about Noelle McCarthy and her new book. Even from her hospital bed she brings it. newsroom.co.nz/2026/06/03/n... More coverage of Stakes this week on @newsroom.co.nz newsroom.co.nz/readingroom/ Pop your hold on Stakes christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S3... ^DR
Stakes: A Memoir — Christchurch City Libraries Ngā Kete Wānanga o Ōtautahi
Stakes: A Memoir — McCarthy, Noelle
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We continue our week-long coverage of Noelle McCarthy's new memoir with a morphine report by Talia Marshall from her hospital bed
explaining Douglas Murray to people exiledonline.com/big-brothers...
Big Brothers: George Orwell and Christopher Hitchens eXposed
Christopher Hitchens is out to save America. He’s brought the cross of St. George–Orwell, that is–along on the crusade. He’s everywhere in the American media lately, lending his accent and vast self-i...
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Morbid or Maudlin is a lovely name for a man.
Debris is a lovely name for a girl.
Wondered why I'm feeling batty and it's always the full moon.
There is nothing quite like private, high quality conversations with people who have known you, and you them, forever.
Exited hospital with screws in my ankle and no care package. Care packages welcome lol. Just not for me. From ACC. I'll be getting a romiromi and then a mirimiri at least the maoris come thru. Plus my divine sleepy t shirt finally arrived. I'm never entering a hospital as a patient again lol
Mum used to joke that she had to hide me in my perma-tutu in our whare off Cuba St if the radical version of Jools was in town. youtu.be/iNLKAkmLzww?...
Calf Club Day
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Not ashamed to admit that the homemade apricot jam from the foodbank is the best jam I have ever had. The tang!
. How Memory Works Come over here we say to the days that disappear. No, over here. .
What does butter mean in your community...would you die for it?