Monthly Archives: July 2006

creative class of ’06

Posted on July 31, 2006 by lynsey gedye

I’ve been reading the Flight of the Creative Class – it hasn’t been difficult reading, but it has been somewhat uncomfortable. For years I’ve been uncomfortable about New Zealand’s potential as an economic powerhouse in the future. On a global … Continue reading →

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ignis inextinctus

Posted on July 29, 2006 by lynsey gedye

Coelia had spent the last ten years as a teacher, before that, ten years in service, and before that, ten years in training. She could barely remember the years before that. Certainly, her hand-ground grain childhood had been transformed into … Continue reading →

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the lost tribes

Posted on July 28, 2006 by lynsey gedye

I’ve been struggling lately to write here. Not because I suddenly can’t write any more, but because I haven’t been able to find the words the express how hateful I find the interaction between the lost tribes – Israel, Lebanon, … Continue reading →

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lilac, violet

Posted on July 24, 2006 by lynsey gedye

On Friday, last week, I treated us to some new aquarelles. I like drawing with coloured pencils – I always have, and aquarelles – or, more accurately in this case, watercolour pencils – are happy combination of the control I … Continue reading →

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breaking new ground

Posted on July 23, 2006 by lynsey gedye

In some views of gardening, winter is the time to dig the garden. Ideally there’s a been a hard frost or two, and then you turn over the sods, there’s a few more hard frosts, and the nasty critters get … Continue reading →

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myco vegetation

Posted on July 15, 2006 by lynsey gedye

My Dear Wife It has been so long since we have been allowed bandwidth to enable private writing. The charging panels have not worked as well as we had hoped as the light strength is more inconsistent than was expected, … Continue reading →

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psycho-babel

Posted on July 14, 2006 by lynsey gedye

“Yep, he also said, Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.” Jin leaned forward. “Freud said that? I get it. So after humanity tested the existence of … Continue reading →

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mr macaw

Posted on July 13, 2006 by lynsey gedye

Lately I’ve been spending altogether too much time playing with the calculators over at NutritionData.com. I’ve found it fascinating building my pantry and figuring out what I eat during the day, to what seems like the nth degree of accuracy. … Continue reading →

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shine on

Posted on July 12, 2006 by lynsey gedye

It seems like a hundred years ago from the time when this gawky kid sat in the front row in a seminar room of the old Wellington Polytech and listened, rapt, as a very much younger Ian Athfield reignited the … Continue reading →

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feeling down in the mouth…

Posted on July 11, 2006 by lynsey gedye

Had an ‘interesting’ interlude with the Scottish dentist (och aye, laddie, I can save ‘ee one, but yee could be looking at two rrrrooot canals) … that was scary, I have to admit, but I did very quickly become fond … Continue reading →

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