tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82239672921178383382024-03-14T04:21:28.191+13:00Don Donovan's WorldRamblings of a much published New Zealand authorAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00489998182673167272noreply@blogger.comBlogger1296125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8223967292117838338.post-64520677769875444462014-06-20T18:47:00.003+12:002014-06-20T18:48:17.320+12:00Don Donovan died May 27th 2014There will be no more additional posts to this blog. The blog will remain online as his prints are still very popular. However any material online is covered by copyright law and I would appreciate being contacted to to discuss any use of his work.<br />
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Patrica Donovan (Mrs)<br />
<a href="mailto:pdonovan@ihug.co.nz">pdonovan@ihug.co.nz</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00489998182673167272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8223967292117838338.post-46346280561454138722014-02-23T16:52:00.000+13:002015-04-29T17:53:54.248+12:00Photoprint for Sale: Wreck Of Hinau Coastal Vessel, Kaiaua, Firth Of Thames, New Zealand<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is an original photoprint from my personal collection<br />
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Size of image is 30cm x 46cm (12" x 18").<br />
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Price is $NZ 50.00 inc. urban p. and p. in NZ.<br />
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Please contact me at donovan@ihug.co.nz or 09 4159 701.<br />
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© DON DONOVAN. donovan@ihug.co.nz <br />
www. don-donovan.blogspot.co.nz and www.printsbydondonovan.blogspot.co.nzAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00489998182673167272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8223967292117838338.post-21991315209722688902014-02-16T16:58:00.000+13:002015-04-29T17:54:14.744+12:00Photoprint for Sale: Wreck Of Hinau Coastal Vessel, Kaiaua, Firth Of Thames, New Zealand<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2IeFc3Ra5VE/VUBxFa5WVQI/AAAAAAAAKBs/uHoQwb-qnA0/s1600/1401%2BWreck%2BOf%2BHinau%2BCoastal%2BVessel%2C%2BKaiaua%2C%2BFirth%2BOf%2BThames%2C%2BNew%2BZealandSmaller.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2IeFc3Ra5VE/VUBxFa5WVQI/AAAAAAAAKBs/uHoQwb-qnA0/s1600/1401%2BWreck%2BOf%2BHinau%2BCoastal%2BVessel%2C%2BKaiaua%2C%2BFirth%2BOf%2BThames%2C%2BNew%2BZealandSmaller.jpg" height="428" width="640" /></a></div>
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This is an original photoprint from my personal collection<br />
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Size of image is 30cm x 46cm (12" x 18").<br />
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Price is $NZ 50.00 inc. urban p. and p. in NZ.<br />
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Please contact me at donovan@ihug.co.nz or 09 4159 701.<br />
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© DON DONOVAN. donovan@ihug.co.nz <br />
www. don-donovan.blogspot.co.nz and www.printsbydondonovan.blogspot.co.nzAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00489998182673167272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8223967292117838338.post-51060604759838628572014-02-15T14:03:00.000+13:002015-04-29T17:54:29.805+12:00Photoprint for Sale: Foleys Barn 1880, Albany Heights, Auckland, New Zealand<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EKGMI-VhLWA/VUBxBSAxI-I/AAAAAAAAKBY/aubuAwTpRgY/s1600/1397%2BFoleys%2BBarn%2B1880%2C%2BAlbany%2BHeights%2C%2BAuckland%2C%2BNew%2BZealandSmaller_edited-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EKGMI-VhLWA/VUBxBSAxI-I/AAAAAAAAKBY/aubuAwTpRgY/s1600/1397%2BFoleys%2BBarn%2B1880%2C%2BAlbany%2BHeights%2C%2BAuckland%2C%2BNew%2BZealandSmaller_edited-1.jpg" height="422" width="640" /></a></div>
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This is an original photoprint from my personal collection<br />
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Size of image is 30cm x 46cm (12" x 18").<br />
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Price is $NZ 50.00 inc. urban p. and p. in NZ.<br />
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Please contact me at donovan@ihug.co.nz or 09 4159 701.<br />
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© DON DONOVAN. donovan@ihug.co.nz <br />
www. don-donovan.blogspot.co.nz and www.printsbydondonovan.blogspot.co.nzAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00489998182673167272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8223967292117838338.post-18053871309446688782014-02-01T16:39:00.000+13:002015-04-29T17:54:43.814+12:00Photoprint for Sale: Albany War Memorial Library 1922, Auckland, New Zealand<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is an original photoprint from my personal collection<br />
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Size of image is 30cm x 46cm (12" x 18").<br />
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Price is $NZ 50.00 inc. urban p. and p. in NZ.<br />
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Please contact me at donovan@ihug.co.nz or 09 4159 701.<br />
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© DON DONOVAN. donovan@ihug.co.nz <br />
www. don-donovan.blogspot.co.nz and www.printsbydondonovan.blogspot.co.nzAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00489998182673167272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8223967292117838338.post-17909052865088157092014-01-27T10:45:00.002+13:002015-04-29T17:55:03.461+12:00Photoprint for Sale: Jacobean Style 'Doctors'Houses' 1897, Symonds Street, Auckland, New Zealand<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NNVb2yCqvs4/VUBw7mgO-tI/AAAAAAAAKBI/6pKbFwC1Up0/s1600/1385%2BJacobean%2BStyle%2B'Doctors'Houses'%2B1897%2C%2BSymonds%2BStreet%2C%2BAuckland%2C%2BNew%2BZealandSmaller.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NNVb2yCqvs4/VUBw7mgO-tI/AAAAAAAAKBI/6pKbFwC1Up0/s1600/1385%2BJacobean%2BStyle%2B'Doctors'Houses'%2B1897%2C%2BSymonds%2BStreet%2C%2BAuckland%2C%2BNew%2BZealandSmaller.jpg" height="376" width="640" /></a></div>
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This is an original photoprint from my personal collection<br />
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Size of image is 30cm x 46cm (12" x 18").<br />
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Price is $NZ 50.00 inc. urban p. and p. in NZ.<br />
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Please contact me at donovan@ihug.co.nz or 09 4159 701.<br />
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© DON DONOVAN. donovan@ihug.co.nz <br />
www. don-donovan.blogspot.co.nz and www.printsbydondonovan.blogspot.co.nzAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00489998182673167272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8223967292117838338.post-77931420312132430612014-01-16T15:25:00.000+13:002015-04-29T17:55:20.777+12:00Photoprint for Sale: St.Andrew's Presbyterian Church 1850, Auckland, New Zealand<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is an original photoprint from my personal collection<br />
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Size of image is 46m x 30cm (18" x 12").<br />
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Price is $NZ 50.00 inc. urban p. and p. in NZ.<br />
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Please contact me at donovan@ihug.co.nz or 09 4159 701.<br />
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© DON DONOVAN. donovan@ihug.co.nz <br />
www. don-donovan.blogspot.co.nz and www.printsbydondonovan.blogspot.co.nzAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00489998182673167272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8223967292117838338.post-57802481066566948712014-01-07T14:55:00.000+13:002015-04-29T17:55:33.778+12:00Photoprint for Sale: Chicken, Golden Brown Head And Neck<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2cvvusrdbsY/VUBwxSMOh7I/AAAAAAAAKAo/xhK6tjCVH-w/s1600/1353%2BChicken%2C%2BGolden%2BBrown%2BHead%2BAnd%2BNeckSmaller.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2cvvusrdbsY/VUBwxSMOh7I/AAAAAAAAKAo/xhK6tjCVH-w/s1600/1353%2BChicken%2C%2BGolden%2BBrown%2BHead%2BAnd%2BNeckSmaller.jpg" height="426" width="640" /></a></div>
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This is an original photoprint from my personal collection<br />
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Size of image is 30cm x 46cm (12" x 18").<br />
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Price is $NZ 50.00 inc. urban p. and p. in NZ.<br />
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Please contact me at donovan@ihug.co.nz or 09 4159 701.<br />
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© DON DONOVAN. donovan@ihug.co.nz <br />
www. don-donovan.blogspot.co.nz and www.printsbydondonovan.blogspot.co.nzAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00489998182673167272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8223967292117838338.post-55205312981942021472014-01-03T15:59:00.000+13:002015-04-29T17:56:01.774+12:00A Close Run Thing.<style>
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happens to be the year in which both my mother and father were born. The
station has lasted longer than mum and dad). </span></div>
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affair of turrets, gorgeous gables, soaring entrances and a tower that
challenges that which houses Big Ben. It's a lasagne of dark basalt from the
Strath-Taieri layered with Oamaru limestone - dark chocolate with white
chocolate as if paying homage to the old factory of Cadbury's that stands
opposite - so close, in fact, that E.E. Barringer, erstwhile Managing Director of
the confectionery company, used to use the station's clock, which he could see
from his office window, for timekeeping rather than his wristwatch.</span></div>
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flutters daily casting its flickering shadow upon the magnificent terra-cotta
Marseilles shingles that comprise its roof.</span></div>
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made up of something like three-quarters of a million mosaic Minton tiles.
Looking down from a balcony which is itself decorated with a Royal Doulton
porcelain frieze one can pick out delightful mosaic tableaux of locomotives,
carriages and other Thomas-The-Tank-Engine symbols. 'NZR' is ubiquitous;
everywhere one looks New Zealand Railways' initials proudly proclaim George
Troup's sycophantic architectural homage.</span></div>
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its platform including the gentlemen's lavatory with its serious chest high
pissoires and boxy water closets along the opposite wall, dignified, correct and
white-tiled hygienic. So noble are they that a waxworks identity parade of
kings could inhabit these cubicles, kings installed in stalls at stool like
bishops adorning niches in ancient European cathedrals. </span></div>
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while passing through Dunedin on a fact-finding tour for one of my books. It
must have been something I ate, a wayward oyster perhaps, at that pretentious
restaurant last evening before a restless night in the motel. A sudden colicky
pain, incipient panic, I couldn't return to the motel; where might I go? I
spotted George's rambling monument beyond a glory of tulips and, fortunately,
found a car park outside the main door of the station which, at this time of
morning on a weekend, was apparently deserted.</span></div>
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lavatory paper usage habits while in the privacy of the privy but I'm happy to
let on that I don't tear paper off its holder, I hold the roll in my left hand,
extract a couple of sheets folded at the perforation and apply to the derrière
as appropriate. On this memorable morning, though, I had no sooner started than
the toilet roll leapt from my hand, fell to the mosaic floor, bounced once and
rolled out of the stall, under the fifteen centimetre gap below the heavy
mahogany door.</span></div>
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realization as - appalled. The paper roll had gone completely. Had it left a
tail I could have retrieved sheets bit by bit until business was concluded. But
there it was, gone, and no substitute in sight.</span></div>
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and pants in one hand, frog-hopped to the door which, thanks to Troup's spatial
generosity, was not easily to hand. Balanced ridiculously, I slid aside the
brass bolt and then, squeaking the door partially open, surveyed the scene.
There, as far away as it could possibly be, was the toilet roll, nestling under
the polished pipes of a wash hand basin. I listened carefully. No sound from
outside. I opened the door further and crouch-hopped, my hand still grasping my
clothing, until I reached the toilet roll, then turning in a series of Russian
Cossack steps, bounced back to the cubicle where, safe, I finished the ordeal.
More relief.</span></div>
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very basin whereupon, with a cheery whistle and a clanking of galvanized steel
a man in a rubber apron appeared brandishing a scrubbing brush and with a
chamois leather wrapped over one shoulder. </span></div>
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electric kettle, tipped the grounds into the cafetière and waited,
contemplating the opening scene of the musical - it wasn't quite there yet.
Having plunged the piston into the coffee solution and poured a mugful of the
Kenyan brew, he was keen to return to the computer.</span></div>
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stale after-shave. He tended to grunt. His table manners were porcine. He was
gluttonous and his manner waspish. But to his confreres - all literati to a
greater or lesser degree - none of his shortcomings outweighed his capacity to
entertain.</span></div>
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too much wine. They consumed two bottles of a chewy Pinot Noir, Lee gulping at
least two thirds as a dying man at an oasis. Unaccustomed to heavy eating in
the middle of the day Rodgers felt uncomfortably replete and slightly fuzzy and
after having seen Lee into a taxi following his seemingly never-ending series
of dismissive snorts and bright ideas all to do with golf, Rodgers was pleased
to see the back of him as he walked slowly along the street towards his
apartment building. </span></div>
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on the telephone. He pressed the messages button. It was Nancy, his wife, who
was staying with her mother by the sea. 'Hi it's me.' It said tinnily, 'Nothing
of import. Just wanted to know how the work's going. No need to reply. I know
you of old. Love you. Bye.' beep, beep beep.</span></div>
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pressed the mouse on the way to fixing a gin and tonic. The title was still
there. Something not quite right. He'd think about it. He sipped the refreshing
drink and thought about it. The title page felt like a roadblock. Until he'd
got it just so he didn't think he'd be able to proceed to scene one which, in
any case, was inchoate to say the least. The trouble with Macintoshes and
Word.com was that they turned you into a typographical obsessive. Perhaps he'd
have made a better designer than playwright; he just loved all of those font
options!</span></div>
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about ten minutes walk away, had a quarter pounder with cheese and a paper
cup-thingy of chips before walking back home swearing that he'd never go to a
take-away again.</span></div>
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with vivid scenes of golf played both on stage and on the links. He did nothing
about either discomfort, being between sleeping and waking, until he finally
dropped off completely. Too soon a pesky shaft of sunlight stabbed at his eyes
through a crack in the curtain. It was nine-thirty in the morning.</span></div>
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thoroughly. Then he went to the kitchen and made a pot of coffee which he
brought back to the study. He poured a cup of the thick, hot, black brew,
spooned in four sugars, sipped contentedly, pressed the command 'insert page
break', and started to type:</span></div>
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club house. Twelve women in tweed skirts, twin sets and pearls and brogue
shoes. Ten men in blue double-breasted blazers, white flannels and black
loafers. They stand expectantly, silently, either side of a door up-stage.
Through the door come two more men dressed as the other males in the chorus.
Sitting on their shoulders is the hero, Dick Killinger, who raises both arms
and cries out 'I did it! A hole-in-one on the fourth. Shout the clubhouse.' There
is a cheer as the chorus crowd round him. The orchestra strikes up...'</span></i></div>
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This hotel has been a popular stop off for backpackers from all over the world. Reports in the newspapers in December 2013 suggest that they might not be coming in future because the tourist buses that bring them won't be stopping here. Shame.<br />
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The illustration above appeared in my book 'The Good Old Kiwi Pub'. I can offer prints of it for $NZ95.00 including p and p in New Zealand. They're the same size (and almost indistingishable from) the original at 29cm x 50cm (12" x 20"). That mad sky is not unusual on the West Coast!<br />
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Please contact me at donovan@ihug.co.nz or +64 09 4159 701.<br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bell MT"; font-size: large;">The year is 2025. New
Zealand has had a president for five years, the Green-Labour Government
having declared a republic without referendum in 2020. There had been
little opposition, the coalition having continuously held power with
increasing confidence to the point where it governed with a
significant majority. The murmured accusations of election tinkering
and gerrymandering that had characterized what the long-serving prime
minister had sneeringly labeled ‘the disaffected whingers of the wet
right’ (i.e. National, Conservative and Maori) had largely died out
by 2017. The opposition only had itself to blame having had no distinctive
beneficial policies to offer a public who turned out in fewer and
fewer numbers on election days, those who did opting for the devil
they knew.</span>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Bell MT"; font-size: large;">Some semblance of
parliamentary democracy had staggered on until early 2019 when, on an
otherwise pleasant autumn morning, New Zealanders awoke to hear, on
state-controlled radio and television, that the country would henceforth
be run by presidential decree (the president having been installed unelected
after some years as Secretary-General of the United Nations).
Green-Labour members of parliament were now transformed
into ‘electorate satraps’ in order to administer and minutely control
small districts known as ‘gaus’ - a word borrowed from the German.
Many prescient opposition notables had earlier left the country for a long
divergent Australia preferring its condition as an American client
state to that of isolation and totalitarianism. Those
remaining had been given the option of either following the
presidential line or of expulsion from the Parliament on the grounds
of membership of illegal political parties.</span></div>
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Zealand reacted with customary apathy to the slow but remorseless impact
of the state upon its liberties. Since the assassination of John Key
and, from the resulting vacuum, a panicked change of political weightings,
state agencies increasingly took over responsibility for the nurturing and
schooling of children from mothers (particularly) and fathers (who
were, in any case, considered of little account in the stewardship
of their <i>whanau</i>). Now, male
teachers are no longer permitted to work in girls’ or mixed sex schools
(and most certainly not in kindergartens or crèches) and within the
foreseeable future they will, as single gender schools are
phased out, become completely redundant. (This policy was forced upon
the republic ever since it was decreed that any male suspected or
even accused by any citizen of ‘inappropriate behaviour’ towards
minors, whether or not charged and found guilty in a court of law,
would be named and shamed in a monthly ‘no-smoke-without-fire’
gazette emanating from The Presidential Palace, formerly Government
House).</span></div>
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advances in human genetic engineering technology, there has been much talk
of reducing the male population by selected abortion of male foetuses
its biological function being replaced by sperm banks topped up by
authorized donors drawn from state run sports academies.</span></div>
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manifestation of presidential power has been the shut down of all media
that are not licensed by the republic. This follows an analysis of
biased and ‘anti-society’ news items from the last ten years which
have openly investigated or criticized such things as:-</span></div>
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ration cards bearing coupons exchangeable for limited amounts of butter,
full cream milk, high fat cheeses, sugar, sugar-based soft drinks,
sweet biscuits, confectionery and other items considered inimical
to the health of people whom their doctors consider to be obese or
genetically at risk of diabetes. (The medical profession,
compensated by special payments, has accepted this mandatory obligation in
the same way as it complies with notifiable diseases regimes).</span></div>
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religious symbols from public buildings: crosses and holy statues from
churches, Stars of David from synagogues, crescents from mosques etc.</span></div>
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replacing the ageing RNZAF Lockheed fleet with Korean transports financed
by a twenty year loan at 15%.</span></div>
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genetically engineered analgaesic cannabis is being permitted to grow in
Northland under the aegis of a consortium of South East Asian drug
companies.</span></div>
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the degree to which the public will, over time, accept a general loss of
freedom for the sake of good order.</span></div>
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station has operated from the day that total presidential rule was
announced. So far it has eluded prosecution but one of its satellites
is believed to have been operating somewhere in the
Fiordland region. State radio has acknowledged its existence and has
reported the frustration of the police at not having pinned it down.
(It is known that a cordon was recently thrown around Friedensreich
Hundertwasser’s public lavatory at Kawakawa but nothing was flushed
out).</span></div>
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much affected by new ‘cause and effect’ statutes. These hold that in order
for an offence to be committed, the offender will have been put in
the position of perpetration by the ‘victim’. Thus it is that many
burglars are not only being set free but also compensated by
culpable householders who have left doors and windows unsecured and
who own possessions that invite their theft. These laws do not, however,
extend to government agencies such as the Childrens, Young Persons,
Families, Friends and Neighbours Service (CYPFFNS) who continue, as
they have for years, to place children removed from dysfunctional families
in the care of known paedophiles, rapists and de-frocked bishops.</span></div>
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111 emergency call system was replaced some time ago by an 0900 111 code
designed to produce revenue for the NZ Police Regiment. Calls are
duplicated to local taxi service centres as the NZPR no longer despatches
cars to incidents.</span></div>
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challenge was sailed in Yupanyang Bay south of Shanghai. While New Zealand
did not put up a contender all of the competing boats, including
those of the four Chinese syndicates were designed and skippered by
expatriate New Zealanders. The ‘Auld Mug’ now resides in the Shanghai
Yacht Club and our president has sent a signed picture of herself
to the commodore.</span></div>
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resisting a change of name to something less politically insensitive, were
eliminated from the first round of the Rugby World Cup having been
beaten by Patagonia, Easter Island and Zimbabwe. Excuses for their defeat
range from the uselessness of the coach who, it is said, spent far too
much time giving world media conferences and in any case should get
her hair cut, to the fact that the Watchdog Institute for the
Management of Public Safety (WIMPS) which, with greatly increased
powers, replaced OSH in 2021, ruled that rugby players may not tackle
others to the ground, and must wear body armour and orange steel helmets
while on the field.</span></div>
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in Wellington has received a presidential grant of twelve million dollars
for re-refurbishment in order to premier ‘Lord of the Rings Come Home’,
this block-buster production following the money spinners ‘Lord of
the Rings Trilogy’, ‘Heigh Ho the Hobbits’ and ‘The Life and Times of
Peter Jackson’.</span></div>
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has been unveiled which depicts a kiwi couchant on a field of silver
ferns bordered by the spiral device of the Disunited Tribes of
Aotearoa. Meanwhile the president has assured Maoridom that
pending foreshore and seabed retrospective disallowance legislation
will satisfy everybody that matters and that the ten-year protest
occupations of the ancient beach at Oriental Bay, and Fergusson Wharf are
no longer necessary.</span></div>
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the New Zealand dollar is now worth two US dollars and three Euros and the
country is in the unique position of having bought everything and
sold nothing. The US President, Ms. Chelsea Clinton, has assured our
president that while we’re still not allies we’re ‘very, very, very good
friends...’ to which our president has replied, ‘nya, nya ni nya
nya.’</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00489998182673167272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8223967292117838338.post-30041100216756382962013-12-21T11:30:00.000+13:002015-04-29T17:57:05.194+12:00Photoprint for Sale: Waimate North Mission House 1831-2, Northland, New Zealand<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is an original photoprint from my personal collection<br />
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Size of image is 30cm x 46cm (12" x 18").<br />
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Price is $NZ 50.00 inc. urban p. and p. in NZ.<br />
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Please contact me at donovan@ihug.co.nz or 09 4159 701.<br />
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© DON DONOVAN. donovan@ihug.co.nz <br />
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© DON DONOVAN. donovan@ihug.co.nz <br />www. don-donovan.blogspot.co.nz or donovan0001.blogspot.co.nz<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00489998182673167272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8223967292117838338.post-82016222759364581002013-12-07T16:14:00.002+13:002013-12-07T16:20:00.306+13:00Francis Bacon does Lucian Freud<style>
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<i><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: windowtext; font-family: Garamond;">The Spectator invited readers to write a poem supposedly from any famous painter to accompany any of his works. I wrote this one. It didn't get anywhere with the Speccie but I still think it says what I feel.<br /><br />I can't stand the paintings of Francis Bacon and cannot imagine anybody hanging one on a wall. He did a tr<span style="color: windowtext;">i</span>pt<span style="color: windowtext;">yc</span>h of Luci<span style="color: windowtext;">a</span>n Freud (whose paintings are masterly) which sold at auction a week or two ago for $US142 million!</span></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: windowtext; font-family: Garamond;">One hundred and forty-two million!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: windowtext; font-family: Garamond;">To take all that bread to my bank!</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: windowtext; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: small;">© DON DONOVAN. donovan@ihug.co.nz <br />www. don-donovan.blogspot.co.nz or donovan0001.blogspot.co.nz</span><br /> </span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00489998182673167272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8223967292117838338.post-54104439533267371032013-12-04T15:42:00.000+13:002015-04-29T17:57:27.888+12:00Photoprint for Sale: Yellow Volkswagen Beetle At Beach With Palm Tree, Port Douglas, Australia<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is an original photoprint from my personal collection<br />
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Size of image is 30cm x 46cm (12" x 18").<br />
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Price is $NZ 50.00 inc. urban p. and p. in NZ.<br />
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Please contact me at donovan@ihug.co.nz or 09 4159 701.<br />
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www. don-donovan.blogspot.co.nzAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00489998182673167272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8223967292117838338.post-51000137710871539302013-11-28T15:06:00.000+13:002013-11-28T15:06:17.343+13:00Sandalwood. A Short Story
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Perry Durham sank into one of its soft, enveloping armchairs. He looked about
him. He could be anywhere in the world, these waiting rooms all had an
international look. There were the magazine racks with the latest issues of
Time, National Geographic, the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times and various
glossy inconsequentialities that always seemed to carry the same advertisements
for Swiss watches and high end cars - BMW, Audi, Lexus, Range Rover. There were
the same potted palms, the computer stations, the tea, coffee and snacks
buffets and a small bar, seductively lighted, that would politely offer complimentary
drinks to the premium traveller.</span></div>
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chains, the familiarity of the lounge's appointments gave comfort to the
frequent traveler - never far from home however far that might be.</span></div>
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slightly stewed brew and returned, nodding to an elderly banker? lawyer? arms
dealer? who acknowledged him fleetingly over half-moon spectacles.</span></div>
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until his connecting flight. He started to read Time magazine. The world was as
it always was and always would be. God - at thirty he was becoming the world's
great cynic!</span></div>
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the armchair alongside his, her shoulder bag going to one side, a topcoat to
the other. 'What a mad rush' she laughed, 'and now an hour to wait.'</span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Times; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Perry smiled at her. 'Going far?'</span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Times; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">'Paris. Almost a regular trip. UNESCO. You?</span></div>
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as she had arrived. He returned to Time while she fished a paperback from her
bag, pulled out its bookmark and settled to read. </span></div>
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having read the same paragraph several times without absorption. She was an
attractive woman indeed. He judged her to be somewhat older than he; perhaps in
her early forties, with a clear, almost unblemished, face adorned with small
laughter lines radiating from the outside corners of her eyes. She had a full,
generous mouth and bouncy blonde hair. Dressed in a tailored suit of navy blue,
her only adornments appeared to be a tiny, Longines gold watch and a single
rope of small pearls about a neck that was not greatly lined.</span></div>
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him of somebody from his distant past and the atmosphere around her, as an invisible
aura, reinforced the impression. He could just capture a hint of what he had
come to know as sandalwood, it was a perfume that had long struck with him and
the memory she had evoked took him back to when he had first been aware of it.
Then, he had been a boy of eight years and could not have put a name to it but
once or twice over the years the scent had been on the air and he had been able
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me back to my school years. I was eight, away from home, lonely but madly in
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Times; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">'No. With Miss Kingcombe. She
was my teacher. I adored her. I would do anything for her.'</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Times; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">'How long ago? What was she
like? Can you remember her?'</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: 135.2pt;">
<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Times; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">'I am thirty now. Twenty-two
years ago. I can't remember much from then but some little things stay in the
mind for ever and I think she had quite an effect on me. I've no idea how old
she was. To a small boy all adults are grown-ups, but I have a feeling that she
might have been perhaps eighteen or twenty because I do recall that I had heard
her referred to as a student teacher. She was tall - well seemed so - and
willowy; I have an impression of her hair drawn back into a practical bun, I
can't see her clothes but, oddly, I remember that she wore sandals and that her
legs were suntanned with fine, blonde hairs and she had long, straight toes, the
big ones turned up as if they were being jolly.'<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: 135.2pt;">
<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Times; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">He grinned almost sheepishly at her, 'That
must sound awfully silly!'</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: 135.2pt;">
<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Times; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">They were interrupted by
the barman standing over them. 'Hello again, madam' he addressed the woman,
'Can I get you something?'</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Times; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">'Yes, thank you, I'll
have...'</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: 135.2pt;">
<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Times; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">'...don't tell me; your
usual chablis? And you sir?'</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: 135.2pt;">
<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Times; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">'Well I'll have the chablis
too, thank you.'</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: 135.2pt;">
<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Times; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">As the barman walked away
Parry remarked, 'You are a regular, aren't you. How long have you been doing
this journey?'</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: 135.2pt;">
<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Times; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">'It seems many years, but
not really. I just think he fancies me a bit.' She laughed, 'I don't discourage
him. Get well looked after that way. But,' and at that she leaned across to
Perry and tapped his arm, 'I'm enjoying hearing about you. Tell me more about
Miss - what was her name?'</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: 135.2pt;">
<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Times; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">'Kingcombe. Oh how I loved
that woman, I wonder where she is today? I remember that she used to tell us
all sorts of things that weren't about writing or sums. And she used to do
wonderful colourful crayon drawings of the things she told us. For instance,
have you head of a shadoof?'</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: 135.2pt;">
<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Times; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">'Well, it's something
Egyptian...'</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: 135.2pt;">
<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Times; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">'Yes, ancient Egypt; and
the word has stuck in my mind all these years because Miss Kingcombe told us
about how the Egyptian farmers used to irrigate their land by using a bucket -
a shadoof - on a pivoted pole to raise water from wells and pour it into drain
channels. She drew the farmer using a shadoof and I can almost recall every
detail of that drawing that hung on the classroom wall.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: 135.2pt;">
<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Times; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">'I wanted so much to please
her that I got two simple books from the school library, one about ants, the
other bees, and I read them - devoured them - so that I could tell her what I
had learned. You see, she used to have a session when she would ask the
children what they had been reading and I, of course couldn't wait to put my hand
up. "Ants, miss; and bees". </span><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Times; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Well now Perry, Miss
Kingcombe had said, why don't you come to the front and tell us all about your
discoveries?'</span></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Times; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"> </span>
</div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Times; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">'Were you nervous?'</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: 135.2pt;">
<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Times; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">'No', said Parry, 'I was
ecstatic. I stood up there on two occasions at least and told my classmates all
that I had learned; the first time about bees, the drones, workers, queens; the
hives; the nectar collection and the honeycombed nests. And then, on another
day, of how ants, like the bees, were colony creatures, helping each other and
so on and so on.'</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: 135.2pt;">
<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Times; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">'What do you think Miss
Kingcombe thought of you, then?</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: 135.2pt;">
<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Times; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">'I don't really know from
this distance. Perhaps she thought I was a precocious little prig. I don't
know. But she filled what could have been a lonely life, she was with me at the
time, and in anticipation, and in recollection.'</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: 135.2pt;">
<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Times; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">The chablis was cold, dry
and flinty and he watched as she ran her carefully manicured finger down the
frosting on the glass to send rivulets to its base. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: 135.2pt;">
<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Times; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">She look at Perry. 'And I
remind you of her. How so?'</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: 135.2pt;">
<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Times; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">'I haven't worked that out
yet. But there's a trigger there somewhere.'</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: 135.2pt;">
<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Times; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">'What happened to her?'</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: 135.2pt;">
<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Times; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">'I've no idea. At some
stage I was taken from the school and restored to my parents. In fact I've no
idea why I had been separated from them. Never asked. Never questioned
happenings. I guess she grew older - well that's rather obvious - probably
qualified and found another sea of faces to confront'</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: 135.2pt;">
<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Times; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">He sank into reverie again.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: 135.2pt;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: 135.2pt;">
<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Times; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">When he emerged he took a
sip of the chablis, and said, 'Here's something interesting: I even drew a map
of the world for Miss Kingcombe. I didn't copy it, I drew it from memory
knowing that South America and Africa were sort of the same shape and separated
by the Atlantic ocean and that Australia and the little islands of New Zealand
were tucked away in the bottom right hand corner and that great lump of Europe
and Asia dominated everything. I coloured it in. I gave it to her and I
remember she smiled at me and thanked my very much for it and put it very
carefully into the music case that she used to carry'.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: 135.2pt;">
<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Times; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">The woman sat back in her
armchair and crossed her legs. She looked at the watch. 'Not long now.' she
said. 'Thank you for telling me your story. It's made the time go so quickly. I
might just have a smoked salmon sandwich before I go, can I get you something?'</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: 135.2pt;">
<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Times; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">'On one condition.' he
replied. 'That I get to hear your life story, too.'</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: 135.2pt;">
<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Times; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">'Wait.' She walked across
to the buffet table and as she passed he caught that evanescent perfume again. Odd
how evocative a scent could be.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Times; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">As they settled to eat she
started to tell him about herself but had gone no more that a few words when
the PA announced 'Singapore Airlines wishes to announce that the Paris bound
flight...'</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: 135.2pt;">
<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Times; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">'That's me.' She cried and
gathering her shoulder bag and topcoat, stowing her book and retrieving her
passport and boarding tickets made to leave. She pushed her hand into his,
'Sorry, you'll have to hear about me another time.' she said. 'Must go'.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: 135.2pt;">
<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Times; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Perry stood as she moved
quickly to the door of the lounge. 'Go safely.' He waved and then frowned as
that fleeting scent was carried on the air.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: 135.2pt;">
<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Times; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">She stopped at the door and
looked back. 'By the way, Perry Durham' she called, 'you left the whole of India
off that map'.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: 135.2pt;">
<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Times; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">And she was gone.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; tab-stops: 135.2pt;">
<span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Times; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Perry frowned again and
then, as the significance of her throwaway line dawned upon him he breathed,
'Of course. Miss Kingcombe. Sandalwood.'</span></div>
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This is an original photoprint from my personal collection<br />
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Size of image is 30cm x 46cm (12" x 18").<br />
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Price is $NZ 50.00 inc. urban p. and p. in NZ.<br />
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Please contact me at donovan@ihug.co.nz or 09 4159 701.<br />
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unmatched shoes - one of whose uppers had parted with its sole exposing a row
of rusty shark’s teeth - kicking aside discarded cigarette packets and butts
and candy-striped cardboard tubs once loaded with greasy chicken legs. Autumn
leaves swirled around the cracked flags of the uneven pavement and littered,
like flotsam in a harbourside eddy, the precincts of over-shop apartments whose
doors rarely stood open in daytime.</span>
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<span style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">He paid no attention to the shoppers and business people
who, opposing his progress until confronted by him, parted like impatient
waters around a slow moving sludge dredger butting upstream on an unswerving
course. To Pinkus it made no difference whether the world around his was
populated with scarecrows or fashion plates, men or women; he had no eye for a
pretty shape, his libido had died years ago washed away by cheap sherry and
methylated spirits hidden in their bottles in brown paper bags visited
furtively in public parks erected by idealistic councillors for the public good
only to be inhabited by the likes of Pinkus and other tatterdemalions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Pinkus was dying, slowly, of gross abuse of his bodily
organs and of malnutrition. A percipient doctor, were Pinkus by chance to find
himself in one's presence, would soon have found, among other incipient outward
signs of inner decay,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>evidence of
scurvy. It was hardly surprising for Pinkus dined on a menu of leavings; food
scraps which, on a bad day, comprised crusts too heavy for sparrows to carry
away or, better, discarded half-eaten sandwiches and doughnuts lying like
hidden treasures among the dross of community trash cans. On a better day,
Pinkus might find fruit, an apple core, a plum with flesh generously adhering
to its stone, a banana with a small cone of sugar-browned pulp nestled at the
hub of its splayed panels. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">On a good day he would have money to spend; some coins or
a low value banknote. They came rarely and from unpredictable sources:
opportunistic theft, perhaps from the pocket of a park worker’s jacket left, in
the heat of the day, by his wheelbarrow; or from the guilt-loaded charity of a
contemplative citizen. On this day, the wealth that Pinkus clutched in the deep
pocket of the sagging, oversized army greatcoat that served to cover his
emaciated body both from the night airs and public gaze, was a handful of
gold-coloured coins that he had found, piled randomly, in the payout cup of a
gaming machine in the high street amusement arcade.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">They had shooed him away but not before he had scooped
out the coins, assuming correctly that his good fortune came from a miraculous
moment when a punter, having pulled the bandit machine’s one-arm for the last
time, had impatiently turned away disgusted with his inordinate run of bad luck
before the final permutation of numbers triggered an internal command to
release a minor dividend.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Flush, Pinkus turned in to the mosaic-tiled doorway of a crowded
hamburger restaurant and joined a queue of hungry customers. The reactions of
those before and after him were worthy of study. Those in front first became
aware of the odour; some of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>those behind
left space, having observed Pinkus's dilapidation rapidly followed by a
perceptible change in air quality. Others behind simply did not stay, opting,
who knows? for Burger King, Wendy's or Kentucky Fried Chicken a few steps along
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<span style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Hygienic in her fresh, bright, crisp uniform the
girl-child, earning part-time money to help with university costs, blinked disconcertedly
as Pinkus came to the head of the queue. But the staff-manual smile quickly re-arranged
her pretty face as she asked 'What would you like, sir?' Pinkus, just audible,
ordered the cheapest hamburger with cheese, some French fries and a milk shake
and dipped deeply into the greatcoat pocket. Out came a few coins, some old
crumbs, generous pellets of pocket fluff and a rusty paper clip all of which he
deposited into a plastic bowl on the counter. The cashier, already wearing
plastic gloves that looked like five-fingered condoms, extracted the coins,
jettisoned the rubbish, and holding the paper clip ostentatiously between
finger and thumb placed it on the tray with his food.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Pinkus looked around. The restaurant was almost full but
he espied a table in a corner against a mirrored wall that was cramped beneath
a staircase leading to an upper storey. He made his way there largely
unconscious of other patrons, as he passed them, who shrank away with stares of
repugnance and disbelief at his filthy appearance. Settling in, he opened the
striped box and withdrew its contents. On the table was a red plastic container
of tomato sauce, another, yellow, with mustard sauce, salt and pepper shakers
and a glass cone with a metal funnel, containing white sugar. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Having separated the top of his hamburger from its cheese
and meat patty, Pinkus, determined to get his money's worth, picked up the
tomato sauce and shook it vigorously. Aiming the spout at the meat patty,
Pinkus sqeezed gently. Nothing happened. He shook the container once more, turned
it upwards and squeezed again, this time with both hands, hard, until the dried
plug of sauce that had blocked the spout suddenly shot out, followed by a
stream of tomato ketchup which arced across two tables and struck Liam Murphy,
who was dining with his wife and two boys, in the right ear. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Murphy and his family hailed from Ireland and were sworn
enemies of the Ulster immigrant family of Donnellys of which Michael, the
father, was passing behind Murphy with his tray of food and drink at precisely
the moment the sauce stream struck. Red liquid dripping down his tee-shirt,
Murphy turned to see Donnelly behind him. 'You focking bathtard, Donnelly.' He
rasped, 'You did that on porpose!' and half standing he brought his fist up
under the tray and sent it and its contents flying across the restaurant.
Michael staggered backwards, knocking a nearby pensioner off his chair and
falling to the floor. </span></div>
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shoulder bag at Murphy's wife, Kathleen. It caught her in the back of her head forcibly
ejecting from her mouth an illegal cigarette which lodged itself in the bag as Irene
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pins, suddenly fired up by the burgeoning fight between Catholics and
Protestants across the room, took the opportunity to hurl a couple of
chrome-legged plastic chairs over the now extremely disturbed patrons. One of
the chairs hit and shattered the peach-tinted mirror on the wall beside Pinkus
just as he noticed that an unopened striped hamburger packet had somehow
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<span style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Behind the serving counter young boys and girls of the
staff watched, amazed, as the manager ran to the telephone to call the police.
As he did so he noticed two boys trying to steal the Coca-Cola clock off the
wall opposite the broken mirror. Both boys had long coveted the clock and
wanted it for a souvenir. Unfortunately it was not battery driven, it was
powered by a mains connexion whose flex ran discreetly down the side of a
pilaster to a plug socket, the flex being held in place by a series of plastic
coated staples set at regular intervals. As the boys removed the clock the
staples flew out of the wall and one of them landed on a meat-and-egg-burger as
its owner took a bite. Horrified and in pain he started to choke, his
neighbours unaware of his predicament as they either watched, dodged or took
part in a melee that now engulfed the whole restaurant. His face scarlet he
eventually ejected the staple and, staring appalled, at it lying on the table
croaked, 'The bastards, the bastards, I'll sue them, I'll sue the bastards!'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Palatino; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">The noise was unspeakable as punches were thrown,
territory invaded, hair pulled and eyes poked. Schoolboys attacked rivals,
schoolgirls screamed at their boyfriends, pensioners wielded sticks and walking
frames and two Japanese tourists, not long off their cruise ship moored in the
downtown harbour snapped and videotaped digitally as if the show had been
especially staged for their enjoyment. From halfway up the stairs a hopeful man
had called the local television station on his mobile phone and while engaged
in trying to extract money from them in return for letting them know where the
riot was taking place, was rendered unconscious when a metal container of paper
napkins hit him on the temple.</span></div>
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his milkshake and wiped his mouth on a paper serviette that had fluttered from
the staircase above his lice-infested head. The table next to his had been
vacated by the Donnelly boys who were now fighting and biting the Murphy boys
on the floor. Suddenly the table upended spilling a mustard sauce container, a
plastic wallet and a few gold coins at Pinkus's feet. He leaned down and retrieved
the money and wallet which he dropped into his right pocket while slipping the
boxed hamburger and condiment into the other. Then, choosing his moment
carefully, he slid out from his table, picked his way across the floor, avoiding
writhing bodies and squashed French fries and exited the hamburger bar as the
distant sound of police sirens reached his tufted, waxed-up ears.</span></div>
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Pinkus as the Red Sea had parted for Moses. He had gone no more than five metres
from the door when the restaurant's large front window exploded as Liam
Murphy's coiled bulk flew through it followed by his deadly enemy's wife's
shoulder bag, now smoking like a bishop's censer. As the police car drew to a
halt another chair sailed through the gaping window, bounced off the roof of a
parked saloon and hit the blue revolving light on the top of the police car.
The light and the chair landed in the high street and were promptly flattened
by a No. 88 bus whose driver and passengers were paying more attention to the
fracas than the road.</span></div>
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pigeon-infested rest area, remnant of an ancient cemetery, provided a haven
from the bustle of the main road. Here he settled on to a green wooden bench as
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and his hand closed over the still intact packet containing a
double-meat-with-cheese-and-dill-pickle hamburger. Below it he could feel a few
French fries and the plastic container of mustard sauce. Then he plumbed his
right pocket wherein lay somewhat more coins than he had had when he had first
entered the restaurant and also the wallet which he now withdrew. Inside he
found some bank notes, credit cards, rewards cards, membership cards, a blood donor's
card and a driving licence. He re-pocketed </span>the bank notes and threw the
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Pinkus laced his mittened fngers across the string knot that
held his greatcoat fastened and drew his head down below its collar. A half
smile crossed his wind-roughened cheeks and their marbling of small, broken
blood vessels. He belched gently and as he quietly fell asleep reflected that
today, among all the dull days, had been a rather good one - with supper
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There’s no experience quite like that of leaning out of the
unshuttered upper storey window of a country villa on a sensuously warm Tuscan
summer night and looking out over a valley upon whose hillsides specks of light
mark ancient villages. On the honeyed air comes the seductive perfume of
nocturnal flora, the barking of distant dogs and the rustle of the leaves of
chestnut trees
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Below the window, upon terraces where moon-silvered olives
share grassy slopes with vines and raspberry canes fireflies weave like
drunkards with torches trying to find their way home. You can’t help comparing
this to paradise; it’s all too unbelievably perfect. Those fireflies, they’re
so beautiful that we would like always to think well of them, but to their
magical world there’s a grisly, dark and sinister side. </div>
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The female of the species <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">photuris</i> is a siren who eats male fireflies. She has the decency
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Having done so, like a Cornish wrecker she lures into her
air space any hot and lusty young <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">photinus</i>
bent on a bit of nocturnal nooky, but it’s neither sex nor a good meal she’s
after, she wants a chemical called lucibufagins which <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">photinus</i> has but <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">photuris</i>
hasn’t. Indeed, she needs it badly because once she has ingested it from the
doomed dupe it will guard her from attacks by predators - spiders, bats and the
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So when, in the northern hemisphere summer, you savour the
night air of the Tuscan terraces and are wooed by the enchanting illuminations
of those meandering insects remember to reflect upon the casual, routine murder
that's taking place before your misty eyes; and weigh the astonishing notion
that when the crunch comes, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">photuris</i>
actually benefits from unprotected sex.</div>
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© DON DONOVAN. donovan@ihug.co.nz <br />
www. don-donovan.blogspot.co.nz or donovan0001.blogspot.co.nz<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00489998182673167272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8223967292117838338.post-12602582217998570562013-11-24T10:37:00.000+13:002015-04-29T17:58:13.784+12:00Photoprint for Sale: Woman Reclining In Deck Chair By Hotel Pool<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6jzaOgtsPf4/VUBwqfQOWRI/AAAAAAAAKAc/Qy1GsoTNfxA/s1600/1214%2BWoman%2BReclining%2BIn%2BDeck%2BChair%2BBy%2BHotel%2BPoolSmaller.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6jzaOgtsPf4/VUBwqfQOWRI/AAAAAAAAKAc/Qy1GsoTNfxA/s1600/1214%2BWoman%2BReclining%2BIn%2BDeck%2BChair%2BBy%2BHotel%2BPoolSmaller.jpg" height="640" width="416" /></a></div>
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This is an original photoprint from my personal collection<br />
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Size of image is 46cm x 30cm (18" x 12").<br />
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Price is $NZ 50.00 inc. urban p. and p. in NZ.<br />
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Please contact me at donovan@ihug.co.nz or 09 4159 701.<br />
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© DON DONOVAN. donovan@ihug.co.nz <br />
www. don-donovan.blogspot.co.nzAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00489998182673167272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8223967292117838338.post-44356394427252986022013-11-17T16:34:00.000+13:002015-04-29T17:58:30.024+12:00Photoprint for Sale: Dance Kiosk 1910, Charters Towers, Queensland, Australia<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-reJTyq_bnP0/VUBwp33QyvI/AAAAAAAAKAU/G1wmANVYvVs/s1600/1203%2BDance%2BKiosk%2B1910%2C%2BCharters%2BTowers%2C%2BQueensland%2C%2BAustraliaSmaller.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-reJTyq_bnP0/VUBwp33QyvI/AAAAAAAAKAU/G1wmANVYvVs/s1600/1203%2BDance%2BKiosk%2B1910%2C%2BCharters%2BTowers%2C%2BQueensland%2C%2BAustraliaSmaller.jpg" height="422" width="640" /></a></div>
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<br />
<br />
This is an original photoprint from my personal collection<br />
<br />
Size of image is 30cm x 46cm (12" x 18").<br />
<br />
Price is $NZ 50.00 inc. urban p. and p. in NZ.<br />
<br />
Please contact me at donovan@ihug.co.nz or 09 4159 701.<br />
<br />
© DON DONOVAN. donovan@ihug.co.nz <br />
www. don-donovan.blogspot.co.nzAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00489998182673167272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8223967292117838338.post-73915422605121069172013-11-12T14:11:00.000+13:002015-04-29T19:38:10.178+12:00Photoprint for Sale: Classic Queenslander House, Charters Towers, Queensland, Australia<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MMnEaSJQ0E4/VUBwfa9SfCI/AAAAAAAAKAA/In0epH--Snk/s1600/1200%2BClassic%2BQueenslander%2BHouse%2C%2BCharters%2BTowers%2C%2BQueensland%2C%2BAustraliaSmaller.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MMnEaSJQ0E4/VUBwfa9SfCI/AAAAAAAAKAA/In0epH--Snk/s1600/1200%2BClassic%2BQueenslander%2BHouse%2C%2BCharters%2BTowers%2C%2BQueensland%2C%2BAustraliaSmaller.jpg" height="420" width="640" /></a></div>
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<br />
<br />
This is an original photoprint from my personal collection<br />
<br />
Size of image is 30cm x 46cm (12" x 18").<br />
<br />
Price is $NZ 50.00 inc. urban p. and p. in NZ.<br />
<br />
Please contact me at donovan@ihug.co.nz or 09 4159 701.<br />
<br />
© DON DONOVAN. donovan@ihug.co.nz <br />
www. don-donovan.blogspot.co.nzAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00489998182673167272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8223967292117838338.post-57164829222895568032013-11-02T10:56:00.000+13:002015-04-29T17:58:46.433+12:00Photoprint for Sale: Cape Upstart from Mt. Inkerman, Queensland, Australia<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-AA_dBJoD59M/VUBwe4qUkTI/AAAAAAAAJ_8/PrE6ZL_6zME/s1600/1186%2B%2BCape%2BUpstart%2Bfrom%2BMt.%2BInkerman%2C%2BQueensland%2C%2BAustraliaSmaller.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-AA_dBJoD59M/VUBwe4qUkTI/AAAAAAAAJ_8/PrE6ZL_6zME/s1600/1186%2B%2BCape%2BUpstart%2Bfrom%2BMt.%2BInkerman%2C%2BQueensland%2C%2BAustraliaSmaller.jpg" height="422" width="640" /></a></div>
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<br />
<br />
This is an original photoprint from my personal collection<br />
<br />
Size of image is 30cm x 46cm (12" x 18").<br />
<br />
Price is $NZ 50.00 inc. urban p. and p. in NZ.<br />
<br />
Please contact me at donovan@ihug.co.nz or 09 4159 701.<br />
<br />
© DON DONOVAN. donovan@ihug.co.nz <br />
www. don-donovan.blogspot.co.nzAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00489998182673167272noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8223967292117838338.post-18612869765990914782013-10-30T11:04:00.000+13:002015-04-29T17:59:08.786+12:00Photoprint for Sale: Railway Hotel, Old Gold Mining Town, Ravenswood, Queensland<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4wMbDwFWWoo/VUBwe8pVyAI/AAAAAAAAJ_4/Fpg7YTv-dw8/s1600/1191%2BRailway%2BHotel%2C%2BOld%2BGold%2BMining%2BTown%2C%2BRavenswood%2C%2BQueenslandSmaller.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4wMbDwFWWoo/VUBwe8pVyAI/AAAAAAAAJ_4/Fpg7YTv-dw8/s1600/1191%2BRailway%2BHotel%2C%2BOld%2BGold%2BMining%2BTown%2C%2BRavenswood%2C%2BQueenslandSmaller.jpg" height="420" width="640" /></a></div>
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<br />
<br />
This is an original photoprint from my personal collection<br />
<br />
Size of image is 30cm x 46cm (12" x 18").<br />
<br />
Price is $NZ 50.00 inc. urban p. and p. in NZ.<br />
<br />
Please contact me at donovan@ihug.co.nz or 09 4159 701.<br />
<br />
© DON DONOVAN. donovan@ihug.co.nz <br />
www. don-donovan.blogspot.co.nzAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00489998182673167272noreply@blogger.com0