Kathryn Dick

I can only imagine. The long goodbyes are the hardest, I think. Precious, but draining. How is she doing health-wise? Strong and sturdy in all other departments?

Understand ❤️ Nick has a day programme he goes to (including the schoooool holidays!!) so it gives us a break. No Covid outbreaks since he started there, thank goodness. Just flooding. You are doing amazing mahi and I know you'll be treasuring this time amidst the grind. And it is a grind. I know.

Is she in respite now, or was she set to go for the week ahead?

Shit! I'm sorry.

The cognitive dissonance to have 'Paris agreement is destroying our lives' signs on farms the length of the South Island of NZ while we are experiencing fatal climate 1 in 1 year weather events again.

I might take a chainsaw on the next Dunedin to ChCh trip - the fuckers don't have the right

I'm really sorry you're living this. It's hard enough watching from down south. We spent our New Year there, and I am finding it hard not to bawl. Take care of yourself in the days ahead.

Grandpa Simpson saying “8i saved my files on the computer which was the style at the time” and a picture of him yelling at a cloud labelled “onedrive”

It was a better time

The first part of the finale had me forgiving prior sins; then it fell apart. It wasn't a G.O.T let down, but my teen and I agreed that Noah Schnapp should have stopped at 'child actor' - his delivery of key lines was patchy at best; excruciating at worst.

As my teen lad would say, "bruh!"

There will be time, there will be time
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And time yet for a hundred indecisions,
And for a hundred visions and revisions,
Before the taking of a toast and tea.

Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul
But I do love thee! And when I love thee not
Chaos is come again.

Huge congratulations. That is immense. What a wonderful way to start your day.

And Seymour is clutching his pearls all the while knowing he has a relationship with Snapchat. Thank you for your mahi @marcdaalder.bsky.social

I thought Andrew Coster was a good guy. Instead, he was just one of the guys.

"Root" - I get the giggles just thinking of 1980s New Zild!

I tautoko this. We have walked alongside you even if we have never had the privilege of knowing you directly. We're out here, and I know many of us are thinking of you both. You have been amazing over all these years, Cath, even if you had no other choice than to be... simply amazing.

"Does it get you down?"
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How patronising can you get?
All power to you, Isaac.

"How much do you want a job?"
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I dare Isaac to say, "Yanno, Lisa, not much." That's why I'm talking to you.

@CheckpointRNZ
Lisa Owen, do you listen to yourself?
Asking a 23-year-old who has volunteered to come on air and talk to you, "Do you REALLY want a job?"
FFS

"Despair is a tool of your enemies" - Audre Lorde

I am privileged to have fewer enemies than Audre Lorde, and at least one of the enemies is my own brain, and even still ... holy shit this is a great line with so much to unpack and course correct with.

So true. I’ve never seen another, A Woman of No Importance. She made it her own. I wouldn’t search out another. You only hit that experience of pathos once. If you’re lucky. It deserves to be seen by more people…especially when Hyacinth will get more celebration.

A Woman of No Importance was sublime. I was introduced to it during theatre studies at Otago. Kinda life changing actually, as I learned about her depth and the power of essential writing. Oh, to have either of those gifts.

I knew there were teachery people in your family. DOH! I wish you peace.

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Can I join in the collaborative loss of senses?
I, too, have one of those.
And what adds to the prickly mix?... I'm one of those teacher-thingeees.

Like you and Grumpy, I will try earnestly to be the grown-up.

The word of the day is:

💔 māteatea 💔

māteatea: (verb) to be ignominious, humiliating, shameful, inglorious, abject

and:

māteatea: (modifier) ignominious, humiliating, shameful, inglorious, abject, dishonourable

and:

māteatea: (noun) shame, distress, disgrace, scandal, embarrassment

Auē rā!

You couldn't lower the tone if you tried e hoa.
I am a turtle hurtling all the way down with ya.

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Me too! It makes no sense and yet, considering all they’ve done in power up to this point, it makes perfect sense.

I defy anyone to beat your response. 🤣