This day I began to put on buckles to my shoes, which I have bought yesterday of Mr. Wotton.
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Yes, I have written a PhD about Strauss. No, not Richard Strauss. Music, swimming, that's about it.
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A fair sprinkling of misogyny emanated, at times from columns published via . This 'driven from office' narrative has a whiff of misogyny about it too.
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Shame on our misogyny: It's no wonder Jacinda Ardern was driven from office stuff.co.nz/opinion/300789
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Brilliant, can’t wait to see the fashion spreads for Hipkins and Luxon
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From magazine covers to meetings: A look back at some of Ardern's best fashion moments dlvr.it/Sh5nVd
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I see "worst PM" is trending on NZ Twitter, so I can only assume people are talking about unambiguously NZ's worst leader, Alfred Domett (1862–63): an economic ignoramus, a violent racist who pursued some of the most punitive policies against Māori, and a prolix poet to boot
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In his comments on #Tar Norman Lebrecht criticises #LydiaTar for conducting the trumpet solo at the beginning of Mahler Five - “no conductor would do it” he says. But here with is Leonard Bernstein doing just that youtu.be/9KSESLJ0LWA via #JustSaying
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Somehow I haven't yet read The Mirror and the Light, but it arrived on the desk this morning, and the first five pages are stunning. #RIPMantel, genius.
just overheard a british tourist say the tūī isn’t a nice sounding bird. i’ve heard enough, time to close the borders once again
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How is this the Government’s fault? For goodness sake appalling journalism.
Govt asleep at the baggage carousel as countless Kiwi travellers lose bags
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Atrocious parking and the Minister of Transport is nowhere to be seen. Govt asleep at the wheel.
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Some luminaries of our fourth estate are very touchy and do like to take things extremely personally.
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Making my weekly Twitter visit to (a) check it's still here, (b) make it known that a broken nose really hurts and is annoying, and (c) announce that custard squares (chocolate icing) are powerfully medicinal in the current circumstances.
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Blister on the sole of my foot. How? Why?
It hurts!
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Disgusted to hear Suella Braverman say there's an "invasion on our southern coast", just a day after a migrant detention centre was fire-bombed.
Language like this – portraying migrants as "invaders" – whips-up hate & spreads division.
She's totally unfit to be Home Secretary.
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Tūhono 2022: We Want Your Poems!
Tūhono, Wellington City Libraries’ poetry journal for children and teens, is now open for submissions!
Learn more: bit.ly/3ExGsxU
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Ms Braverman said the current system is "broken" and "out of control", adding: "The British people deserve to know which party is serious about stopping the invasion on our southern coast."- well clearly not the Conservatives who have these last 12 years and completely failed
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Thrilling dream in which I toured the country giving a talk in church halls and RSA rooms on 'The Societal Value of a Weekly National Day of Silence.' Banning adverbs may also have been part of it.
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Would it not make sense to protest at/disrupt an F1 Grand Prix, or an oil company office/HQ?
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A climate protester glued his head to “Girl With a Pearl Earring" on Thursday — the latest in a series of actions by activists that have targeted world-renowned paintings to draw attention to climate change. nyti.ms/3sH5QtK
It's Labour Weekend, when some of the locals start their summer swimming in earnest with a 30km weekend (10km each day). This morning: a chilly excursion in 12 degree water to Balaena Bay and back, and then 5km of sweating in the pool. Tomorrow, pool, and then Worser Bay.
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Hearing play some of the Library's priceless antique instruments on Monday was such a gift, and we were honored and happy to help her share that gift with her concert audience Tuesday night. Here is some more behind-the-scenes footage of her Library tour. #LizzoAtLOC
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Amusingly, the aspect ratio is all weird, so every woman's 90s shoulder pads take up the ENTIRE screen.
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This must be from Turd of Turd Hall
(the play version of the Wind in the Willows)
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Replying to @MichaelRosenYes
I drew this for @Telegraph last week...
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Enjoying the perk of free DVD borrowing from WCL: working through every series of Law & Order from the beginning, and gasping in amazement at how often they uncannily predicted (in the mid-90s) events of the last half-decade.
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Reading this reminded me of listening to the student in the tutorial who hasn't done the reading, but firmly believes that her general feels mean she should talk more than anybody about stuff that has gone way over her head.
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Reading this reminded me of listening to the student in the tutorial who hasn't done the reading, but firmly believes that her general feels mean she should talk more than anybody about stuff that has gone way over her head.
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Why has predictive text added additional words to my tweet? Does it think I don't know my own mind?!?!
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Someone who mistook me for an organized person asked me to tweet about my ADHD coping strategies. So I wrote a massive information dump 🤣 it's actually cracking me up what a rambling mess it is 🤣 Ask an ADHD question, get an ADHD answer 🤣🤣🤣
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My ADHD life is a continuous battle for self-improvement. I don't struggle with motivation exactly, but numbers, calendars, dates, times, and schedules turn my brain to mush. After a LOT of trial and error, I've found some ways to organize my chaos. 
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I haven't done very well at posting photos from my #100DaysOfPractice but, as the instgram crowd were more fun, Instagrambut have now done ten days and it's going well! Updates to follow ...
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The quality with which this has aged!
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Day 2 of #100DaysOfPractice, and I engage with repeating patterns, and keeping the perfect fourths ringing.
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Day 1 of #100DaysOfPractice and naturally a string gives way. Take note of appropriate Early Music Socks and Sandals.
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I really can't see that only answering emails and calls during your proper working hours, and taking your full lunch break equate to doing the 'bare minimum'. It might help you to keep your heart *in* the job. But, whatever you say, Jill...
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‘Quietly quitting is often a sign that it’s time to move on from your role,’ says Jill Cotton, career trends expert at Glassdoor.
'If you’re reducing your effort to the bare minimum needed to complete tasks, your heart is probably no longer in the job or the company.'
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Bach, R. Strauss, and Wagner also featured in the Proms concerts at the Queens Hall, before the intensifying Blitz put an end to the London performances
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Noble statement, immediately undermined by a quick perusal of the programmes/history of the National Gallery Concerts during WWII: "‘We find what audiences want is the music of Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, Brahms,’ Myra Hess commented."
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Some people are worried about calls to avoid Russian music, theatre, etc in public cultural spaces. They needn’t be. During WW2, London concert programs weren’t exactly bursting with Bach & it was probably bad timing for Faust on Broadway. It matters who we celebrate & when. 1/2
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Thomas Mann and his poodle Nico in Hollywood around 1946-7, now . Photograph by George Platt Lynes who is perhaps most famous today for his images of nude men. The Kinsey Institute has a significant Lynes collection.
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Today I was tutted at when parking in a disabled space. I had all these tubes hidden under my clothes, so I looked like a young, healthy person. But in reality, I still have a disability, despite choosing to hide my tubes. Friendly reminder that most disabilities are invisible!
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It needs to be noted here that at 6am, three hours into her return lap, Rebecca requested a coffee with her next feed, ideally a long black. We had the plunger on the big boat, the barista was woken, and coffee was made and handed down into the IRB for her 'breakfast'.
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Just while sharing stories about phenomenal women🏊♀️, here's my friend Rebecca's record-breaking double crossing of Taupō in April. 80+km in 27h 48m.
youtu.be/9DKz_I2VGmQ
Here and there I make cameo appearances, sometimes wearing my commodious straw hat.
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