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Election night: dense, best served buried in cream
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Election night: dense, best served buried in cream
It was not a good omen, if I believed in such things.
When moths collide
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Path of least resistance taken on bowel screenings
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Path of least resistance taken on bowel screenings
Do not imitate the gullible grandmother.
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I meant what I said and I said what I meant to say
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I meant what I said and I said what I meant to say
All these years on, I have no explanation.
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Would you like Botox with your scrape and clean?
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Would you like Botox with your scrape and clean?
My last appointment with a dental hygienist was a disappointment.
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Let’s keep moving and let’s get ice cream
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Let’s keep moving and let’s get ice cream
In politics, it’s all about the timing.
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It’s enough to make you search for a fern stick
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It’s enough to make you search for a fern stick
I know the significance of a road.
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Barbie dolls, scientific advances and nasty fantasy lands
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Barbie dolls, scientific advances and nasty fantasy lands
The same year Barbie was born, I was 4 and mutilating the only doll I had.
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Mail and memories aplenty
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Mail and memories aplenty
There's nothing like a glitch with email to make me hanker for real mail.
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Ugly race to chase the health political football
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Ugly race to chase the health political football
I am not sure I have the stamina for the election campaign, writes Elspeth McLean
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Spurious support irksome
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Spurious support irksome
My dander has been getting a fair workout this month.
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Swearing on Saturday while the King is crowned
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Swearing on Saturday while the King is crowned
I am not sure the about-to-be-crowned King would have approved.
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Name-calling for the sake of it has whiff of the schoolyard
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Name-calling for the sake of it has whiff of the schoolyard
Invercargill seemed as good a place as any to indulge in a bit of name-calling.
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Release information about Lake Onslow, don’t tart it up
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Release information about Lake Onslow, don’t tart it up
We might all be tempted to gussy up ourselves to impress.
The politicking is in full swing
The politicking is in full swing
I could swear my cat knows it is election year.
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Eating copious amounts of cake as the country is swept away
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Eating copious amounts of cake as the country is swept away
Concern about the impact of enforced cake exposure was on my mind after the 102nd Murchison A&P Show last weekend.
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Grow up, stop the toddler-like approach to climate change
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Grow up, stop the toddler-like approach to climate change
Spend a weekend with a toddler and you get used to gibberish.
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Sticking it to Jacinda: enduring the mud of the sad, bad and mad
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Sticking it to Jacinda: enduring the mud of the sad, bad and mad
It was as close as I got to a prime ministerial moment last Thursday.
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One man’s action for the greater good is another’s interference
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One man’s action for the greater good is another’s interference
A casual observer might have wondered if I had finally joined the ranks of a sleazy tabloid.
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Hold fast to friends and brace for ’23
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Hold fast to friends and brace for ’23
When I think about 2023, I already want a cup of tea and a lie-down, preferably in a darkened room with a cold flannel slapped to my forehead.
Let’s give sympathy where it’s due
Let’s give sympathy where it’s due
Being too mean to have a Netflix subscription has saved me from myself.