Gone Girl: a review

By Dave ‘Wisely’ Mitchell. One of the perils of going to the cinema is that generally you cannot pick who sits around you. 

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Becoming a mother

By Charlotte McLauchlan So much has been written about it.  The enormous life change, the intoxicating love for your baby,

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8 things I learnt from the World of Wearable Awards Show

Lord Sutch took me on a ‘date’ to the World of Wearable Arts Award Show (WOW). It was amazing. It also gave me an opportunity to spread my wings

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Neverending storrrryyyyy

A few days ago, my flatmates succumbed to my insistence that we watch ‘The NeverEnding Story‘, one of my favourite movies as a young child.

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A review of WOW written as though I have many personalities

I was asked if I’d like to review the World of WearableArt

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Labour pains

**warning, this post a) is quite long and b) gets quite explicit in places**

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Ramble ramble, ranty rant

Hello again, it’s me, your second favourite left wing ranter.

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Election 2014: Reckons Roundup (Updated)

After the election delivered National back into power, many people have been sharing their reckons. It has been hard to keep up with them all. So here is a roundup.

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Ōtautahi Spring

Christchurch is verdant, floral, and blossomy.

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You guys are so choice

So yesterday after repeated emails from my webhost I finally caved and upgraded our hosting plan because we exceeded our monthly cap by quite a bit

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Cyberbullying: by Loren Heaphy

The Ruminator’s Loren Heaphy (LOZ!) is a finalist in the Westpac Millennial Women of Influence competition.

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Labour in Vain

By Colin Jackson It’s now 24 hours since the election result, a victory for the National Party giving John Key his third term. This, after the strangest election campaign I’ve ever seen, where jousting over policy seemed to take second place to juvenile sneering – and that’s just the protagonists.

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Baby, baby, where did our love go?

So that was a pretty brutal massacre wasn’t it? There’s an awful lot of reflection happening around the country as the left wing comes to terms with just what the hell actually happened.

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Pundity punditing

So I made some predictions and based on the provisional results this is how I did:

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A letter to New Zealand

Hello New Zealand It’s Dave here.  How you been?

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Election Prediction

I hate predictions, but I saw that Danyl made some. So I thought I’d get on board and hazard some guesses:

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A reader writes: an endorsement

A long time reader has written the following. It’s interesting.

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Hugely scientific twitter poll

So I’ve been running this on Twitter now, and thought this would be another good way to check.

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