Hooray, I'm coming back to Dunedin for a Reading! (And working very hard to resist the urge to play around with the rhyming possibilities of the phrase …) Details below and in the sidebar, and you are most welcome to print off a copy of the poster for your own use, whatever that might be: …
Eyes and clean slates – a shortlist is born
There is in each of us a stream of tendency, whether you choose to call it philosophy or not, which gives coherence and direction to thought and action. Judges cannot escape that current any more than other mortals. ... We may try to see things as objectively as we please. None the less, we can …
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Acquittal and Condemnation – week two of the deliberations
Judex damnatur cum nocens absolvitur. The judge is condemned when the guilty is acquitted. – Syrus, Maxims. After a short break while the earth moved, it's back to judging haiku. This is where I become the anal-retentive, über-picky, petty, finicky and super-hard-to-satisfy critic that people have always warned me I was becoming. (I believe that …
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Still here
And another one, and it felt big. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for everyone in the city, because I think we're looking at serious damage. Again. Still. First time I've been outside and looking back at the house when one happened – our upstairs moves at a different tempo to the downstairs, which is freaky. …
Shake, rattle and ohhhhhhh
Another Monday; another big aftershock. With two aftershocks of its own (4.4 and 3.3), and a pre-shock (4.3, which I didn't feel, thank goodness). Closest I've been to diving under my desk for a very long time. But I'm ok; Stewart’s ok; the chooks are ok; and the house is ok (as far as I …
A Dark Feathered Art 