2011
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Flying to Pauanui
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I made a late entry in the comment thread of the year over at Dim Post, a challenge to “submit a paragraph in which Shelley writes a passage from a classic New Zealand novel in her own inimitable style,” referring to the Herald’s Remuera housewife on Valium / crack columnist Shelly Bridgeman. My paragraph is…
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I take photos
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Santa makes a slow, silent and ultimately doomed bid for freedom Lunch A tugboat doing a wee, for the easily amused Sneaky bollard is sneaky Oceanside
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Auckland, Aotearoa Gill
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An evening with AA Gill, Auckland Readers & Writers Festival 13 May 2011 AA Gill, the man himself, dismantler of restaurants and sharpest dictaphone in the west strolled slowly on stage suited and booted, ready to talk. And talk he did, about food, criticism, his mother, his father, television,travel and his previous life as a…
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Cinema’s greatest sandwiches
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Food tweets
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Update on pizza notes. Roast hogget stuffed with honey, mustard and breadcrumbs from Donna Hay. Scalloped potatoes from the Edmonds Cookbook. Important to point out, these were two separate meals.
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Getting sociable and sensibile in the Bay
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MediaSense is a new social media conference put on by Hal Josephson, a Hawke’s Bay entrepreneur, impresario and top bloke. For me, this was a fantastic chance to meet folk I don’t normally meet, with people from all around the country attending. The Bay was well represented and I was most impressed with the locals’ friendliness…
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Two things too small for posts of their own
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One: I’ve signed up at goodreads.com. My first review is of Donald Sturrock’s Road Dahl bio Storyteller. I recommend it, and wrote a review over there. Most interesting to me was Dahl’s view of himself as an outsider, never conforming to any individual’s or the literary establishment’s expectations, and the fact that he came to…
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#retroavatarfriday – requiem for a meme
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It all started with a tweet: This got a few comments, TV3 changed theirs, a hashtag was born, and before long, it became a *thing*. The retro avatars fell into three categories – corporates, who went through the brand crypt to find logos past, people who uploaded old pop culture references, and baby photos. By 3.30pm the next day, the internet had…
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Pizza notes
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I’ve been experimenting, trying to make the best thin base pizza I can at home. I’d heard that Italian pizza is about the crust, not the topping, the same way Italian pasta is about the pasta, not the sauce. I wanted on board. With much trial and error, using me Dad’s basic bread-in-a-breadmaker* recipe: …I’ve…