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reggae-vibe campin'
'I hope the music isn't too loud?'...It's about 9 in the morning and my next door neighbours already have the reggae blaring ( Read more... ) -
for Tegan
I wrote this on my mobile on the train on the same day... traveling from seeing Silverblue and Chaos and Tegan, to Midsummer. Given a few of the things I'd been talking about with Chaos, the dedication seemed very appropraite.
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smiles on a sunday
"Excuse me, but I've never worked one of these things before in my life..."
He's old, some stubble across a handsome square jaw. Quite a nice suit...and smelling vaguely of piss..
'Here, which one do you want then?'
"Fanta? Do they have fanta? If not, coke... Do I have to say OzzieOzzieOzzieOiOiOi? They told me that everyone here says that. That you ( Read more... ) -
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practice A-E etc, and stroke pattern -
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he's shorter than me, just. and far far older...sixties, maybe? costumed in old-man opshop shades of grey ( Read more... ) -
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Notes from a ph language lesson by Kiri Dewes, Maori elder (kuia). Lots of these won;t be spelt right, I was told to write them down as I heard them
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vowels are strict and emphasised
haere mai - welcome
tena kou tou katoa - greeting to all of you
ka pai - thank you
wh - soft f
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Ellerslie, East Auckland and
Mt Roskill, Sandringham, Central West Auckland
Point Chev and Westmere, close to the city