#have they stolen wellington

[richincolor]

There are four books coming out tomorrow, plus one we missed earlier this month. Which of these have caught your eye?

Flower and Thorn by Rati Mehrotra Wednesday Books

One girl. One boy. A promise broken. A magic stolen. Irinya has wanted to be a flower hunter ever since her mother disappeared into the mysterious mist of the Rann salt flats one night. Now seventeen, Irinya uses her knowledge of magical flowers to help her caravan survive in the harsh desert. When her handsome hunting partner and childhood friend finds a priceless silver spider lily--said to be able to tear down kingdoms and defeat an entire army--Irinya knows this is their chance for a better life. Until Irinya is tricked by an attractive imposter. Irinya's fight to recover the priceless flower and to fix what she's done takes her on a dangerous journey, one she's not sure she'll survive. She has no choice but to endure it if she hopes to return home and mend the broken heart of the boy she's left behind.

If You'll Have Me by Eunnie Viking

Momo Gardner is the kind of friend who’s always ready to lend a helping hand. She’s introverted, sensitive, and maybe a little too trusting, but she likes to believe the best in people. PG, on the other hand, is a bit of a lone wolf, despite her reputation for being a flirt and a player. Underneath all that cool mystery, she’s actually quick to smile, and when she falls for someone, she falls hard. An unexpected meet-cute brings the two together, kicking off the beginning of an awkward yet endearing courtship—but with their drastically different personalities, Momo’s overprotective friend, and PG’s past coming back to haunt her, Momo and PG’s romance is put to the test.

A Bright Heart by Kate Chenli Union Square & Co.

What if you could avenge your own murder? A brilliant young woman gets a second chance at life in this debut YA tale of vengeance, court intrigue, and romance, inspired by classic Chinese tropes. Mingshin outsmarted three princes to help the man she loved become king. But she doesn’t see Ren’s betrayal coming, not until she’s lying in a pool of her own blood on the palace steps. As she’s dying, Mingshin makes a desperate plea to the gods to turn back time and give her a chance to make things right. Mingshin wakes up two years earlier, her prayer granted, and swears two things: Ren will never become king, and she will never fall in love again. But the timeline in this life has changed: a dignitary gifted with dark magic is threatening her kingdom’s peace, and Ren’s thirst for power runs deeper than Mingshin could have imagined. She finds herself allying with Jieh, another contender for the throne. Mingshin knows better than anyone not to give her heart to a prince. But in the viper’s nest of the royal court, she and Jieh prove a phenomenal team. Can Mingshin avert the catastrophe of her past by once again learning to trust…and maybe even love?

All These Sunken Souls: A Black Horror Anthology edited by Circe Moskowitz Amberjack Publishing

Welcome to the Dark. We are all familiar with tropes of the horror genre: slasher and victims, demon and the possessed. Bloody screams, haunted visions, and the peddler of wares we aren’t sure we can trust. In this young adult horror anthology, fans of Jordan Peele, Lovecraft Country, and Horror Noire will get a little bit of everything they love—and a lot of what they fear—through a twisted blend of horror lenses, from the thoughtful to the terrifying. From haunted, hungry Victorian mansions, temporal monster–infested asylums, and ravaging zombie apocalypses, to southern gothic hoodoo practitioners and cursed patriarchs in search of Black Excellence, All These Sunken Souls features the chilling creations of acclaimed bestsellers and hot new talents, with stories from Kalynn Bayron, Donyae Coles, Ryan Douglass, Sami Ellis, Brent Lambert, Ashia Monet, Circe Moskowitz, Joel Rochester, Liselle Sambury, and Joelle Wellington.

The Blackwoods by Brandy Colbert Balzer + Bray

The Blackwoods. Everyone knows their name. Blossom Blackwood burst onto the silver screen in 1962, and in the decades that followed, she would become one of the most celebrated actors of our time—and the matriarch of the most famous Black family in Hollywood. To her great-granddaughters, Hollis and Ardith, she has always just been Bebe. And when she passes away, it changes everything. Hollis Blackwood was never interested in fame. Still, she’s surrounded by it, whether at home with her family or at the prestigious Dupree Academy among Los Angeles’ elite. When private photos of Hollis are leaked in the wake of Blossom’s death, she is thrust into the spotlight she’s long avoided—and finds that trust may be a luxury even she can’t afford. Ardith Blackwood has always lived in the public eye. A television star since childhood, she was perhaps closer with Blossom than anyone—especially after Ardith’s mother died in a drug overdose. Ever since, she has worked to be everything her family, her church, and the public want her to be. But as a family secret comes to light and the pressures from all sides begin to mount, she wonders what is left beneath the face she shows the world. Weaving together the narratives of Hollis, Ardith, and Blossom, award-winning author Brandy Colbert tells an unforgettable story set in an America where everything is personal, and nothing is private.

#flower and thorn #if you'll have me #a bright heart #all these sunken souls #the blackwoods #new releases

[daisychainsandbowties]

Important question: what things has Paprika stolen from Beatrice specifically?

oh beatrice is probably the most frequent victim of Paprika’s not-so-robin-hood routine. for one thing, she’s so focussed on her research most of the time that she doesn’t notice her pencils or her good graph paper or her hair-ties going missing.

she’s also prone to leaving things like half-eaten protein bars or pudding cups laying around. Paprika steals these purely on principle (having ‘tasted’ (aka touched) the mint chocolate protein bars beatrice orders in bulk from the mainland and decided that they are made not of crustaceans but of Gross Landlubber Things)

he also enjoys messing around with bea’s telescope, turning the old mechanical dials around and ruining the focus. beatrice just assumes her telescope is old and temperamental, doesn’t at all notice the faint smell of saltwater wafting off the metal.

before ava & camila arrive, Paprika steals bea’s things for one specific reason.

because, of course, bea and lilith are somehow living in the same building and yet never crossing paths. two boats very determined not to spot each other even in a storm, so paprika takes matters into his many, many arms and starts secreting beatrice’s possessions into lilith’s office.

at first lilith finds random protein bars in her drawer and her wellington boots and just makes a face. beatrice is oblivious because you can’t lose something you’ve already lost. so Pap takes drastic action, starts stealing whatever book beatrice is reading AND her reading glasses AND her woolly hat for crossing between buildings.

so, eventually, scowling and muttering and all but frothing at the mouth, Lilith has to take Paprika up to bea’s observatory to make a formal apology, while she passes bea various socks and her glasses and one of the screws from her telescope.

this does lead to Lilith and Beatrice spending an hour arguing over what they want thursday night dinner to be in the cafeteria when it reopens. then bea gives lilith one of her protein bars and they sit chewing mournfully and looking up at the night sky and wondering, privately and individually, if the other person even likes them.

it’s pathetic, in an overtired researcher kind of way, but Paprika catches lilith smiling the next time she finds Beatrice’s watch in her desk drawer.

#palmer station au #paprika reverse-studying these demented women like 'they need to socialize' #meanwhile bea is afraid that if she spends too long with lilith she'll do something stupid like fuck her and lilith is Afraid. in general #so they have specific paths through the bio building to avoid avoid avoid #alas. the octopus

[akallabeth-joie]

This is rough chapter, among other rough chapters. I think it's the pettiness of each incident Valancy recalls, contrasted with her family collectively rating their egos above her life.

Expected indignation gets -1 points to each of Mrs. Stirling and Uncle James. They have simply awful priorities: Valancy not seeking their advice is worse than her dying, or the pain she's been in.

Uncle Benjamin loses -1 for the jam, though it'd be 1/incident if we had a solid count.

Cousin Stickles gets -1 for telling Valancy to repress her feelings, for all that I appreciate the malicious compliance Valancy gets to.

Mrs. Stirling loses more points for being mean to Valancy about the dustpile [technically Olive wasn't the one taking Valancy's dust pile, just the receiver of the stolen goods] and for laughing about her childhood fears. And another for the forced confession. (-3)

Olive's first score: -1 for lying to get Valancy in trouble. She's otherwise toeing the line (not her fault for getting the attendance award or being good at public speaking).

Byron Stirling and Cousin Betty are introduced to lose points for respectively hurting Valancy and lying to get her in trouble (-2), and judging her appearance (-1).

Make that another -1 to Olive for telling Valancy that she wasn't pretty enough to be a bridesmaid. You can just, not actually tell people things that will only hurt them and are past amendment.

Ah, the button string affair. Jealous Olive and selfish Aunt Wellington and Mrs. Stirling not valuing her daughter enough to even insist on a fair division of the buttons. They each get another -1.

Smash that potpourri!

Scoreboard: Cousin Georgiana remains in the lead, with the only positive score. Mrs. Frederick Stirling is still in last place, with a record -34 points.

Mrs. Stirling: -34

Cousin Stickles: -11

Uncle Benjamin: -5

Aunt Wellington: -5

Uncle Wellington: -4

Olive: -3

Uncle James: -2

Byron Stirling: -2

Uncle Herbert: -1

Cousin Betty: -1

Aunt Isabel: -1

Cousin Gladys: -1

Aunt Mildred: 0

Cousin Georgiana: 1

#the blue castle #blue castle book club

[mimiminimal]

Te Wharetoroa Tiniraupeka (1863-1964) -  Kahu waero (dog hair tassel cloak),1890s-1900.   Muka (New Zealand flax fibre), awe (dog hair tassles), natural dye.  

This kahu waro was woven by Te Wharetoroa Tiniraupeka (Ngāti Tunohopu, Ngāti Whakaue, Te Arawa).

Te Wharetoroa was born in August 1863 at Tarawera, Rotorua region. She was a survivor of the Tarawera eruption 10 June 1886 (see Neich “Carved Histories” 2001:34). Te Wharetoroa was recorded by her grandneice Mrs Hilda Inia, to have lived her adult life between Ohinemutu, Waikuta and Wainui, Whakatane. She died in 1964 aged 101, and is buried at Wainui, Whakatane. Te Wharetoroa was a strong minded business woman and devout follower of the Ringatu faith. She was recorded to have known Te Kooti personally (Neich 2001:34). Te Wharetoroa had a meeting house built called “Tiki”, at Ohinemutu for Ringatu services, which was carved by Tene Waitere in 1913.

It is not known when Te Wharetoroa wove the cloak, but she was known to have had a collection of taonga and operated a “curio shop”. She wove and also carved small items according to Hilda Inia. The cloak was dyed at Waikuta where she had her home named “Te Kurī”. The cloak was stolen from her home c1909 and was later discovered on display in the Dominion Museum by Te Wharetoroa and George Graham (her partner at the time) in 1921. Te Wharetoroa writes to the Acting Director, J.W McDonald on the 30 October, 1921 to identify herself as the weaver and the fact that it was stolen some 12 years before with other taonga. The cloak was in keeping as a memory of her mother. George Graham also wrote letters in support of Te Wharetoroa. Eventually it was returned after correspondence over a period of 6 months. The cloak was sent to George Graham in Auckland. It was later deposited in the Auckland Museum under the Hori Montrose Graham Collection between 1927-30. It is not known what happened between Te Wharetoroa and Graham, but the collection was signed out by his written authority between 1941 and 1946 through his daughter Mrs Beatrice Mika and grand-daughter Miss Josephine Mika. Some items were exchanged as well. The cloak was withdrawn from the Auckland Museum on the 17th September, 1946. The cloak was never returned to Te Wharetoroa, dispite her lawyers making inquiries at the Auckland Museum in 1952. George Graham died on 11 April 1952. The cloak was sold to the Wellington jeweller Miet at some point, then sold by Dunbar Sloane Auction to the National Museum, 19th September, 1991.

The body of the cloak is weft twined in double pair twining with regularly spaced dog-hair tassels. It has been dyed using the traditional paru method, after weaving. This can be clearly observed under tassel number 5, proper right of row 2. The tassels of dog-hair are created by shaving the hair from the tail. Bundles of hair were then bound with fine undyed muka in a series of buttonhole stitches used to create the head of the tassel. Tassels were then stitched to the kaupapa of the cloak with undyed muka. The lower edge is left unworked, indicating that a probable taniko border has been cut off.

Neich, Roger, “Carved Histories:Rotorua Ngāti Tarawhai Woodcarving”, 2001, published by Auckland University Press; Auckland.

#Te Wharetoroa Tiniraupeka #Kahu waero (dog hair tassel cloak)

[the-commonplace-book]

The Salty Dog/Bonny Prince Charlie

Send me a ship for the ship bingo chart: The Salty Dog / Bonny Prince Charlie ( We Happy Few )

the… the DOGS??

Okay so Bonny Prince Charlie was the Lawrence family dog and the Salty Dog is the taxidermized dog belonging to Cap’n’ Strawbeard and housing the Hope Diamond. The Salty Dog also shows up in Act III in the Lawrence home. It’s unclear how it got there. 

At first I thought about the dogs being playmates pre-taxadermization, but then decided it would be way funnier if Bonny Prince Charlie decided that he and the very-much-not-alive Salty Dog were pals. His emotional support taxidermize friend.

I imagine Charlie was one of the last dogs to die (be turned into a meal) in Wellington Wells since the Lawrence family was well off to begin with and seemingly managed to preserve their status and wealth to a certain degree even within Joy-addled Hamlyn Village. It might be a very exciting thing for Charlie to see another “dog” when he hasn’t seen one in quite some time. 

Due to Charlie’s fixation on this silly little stuffed dog, I could see one of the Lawrence brothers (or one of the daughters) getting it in their head that it isn’t just Charlie being silly, but is actually Charlie being unreasonably smart and sniffing out something hidden in the Salty Dog. The joke it all is that, while they’re wrong about Charlie’s motivations for wanting to see the Salty Dog, they are right about a treasure being hidden inside.

Due to Joy they keep forgetting, but after years (long after Charlie’s passing) they finally get around to hiring help to steal the stuffed dog. There is indeed a pocket in the back. But whatever treasure was inside is gone, having been stolen by Sally just a few days prior.

#we happy few #bonny prince charlie #the salty dog #whf #f; we happy few #thanks for sending this in it gave me a chuckle

[godesssiri]

Mum and I drove to Hawkes Bay yesterday to take supplies to our rest home. We got home to Wellington like 2 hours ago.

It's bad.

What you're seeing in the news is just touching on things, it's worse.

The gangs are bad. I've seen a dairy, that I know has had multiple hold ups in the past, boarded up. Either they've been hit again during this or they've just gone fuck this and nailed the door shut. A Gun store was broken into and all the guns were taken. They have stolen generators both from private homes and ones that Vodafone set up to get the cell towers going so that people can communicate. I have a friend in a rough area that has a little generator for her campervan and she's keeping a machete to hand at all times. I dropped supplies to another friend with a gang house across the road and could hear a generator running there, she is very dubious that they got it legally. There are so many rumors swirling around you don't know what to take with a grain of salt but the above are all confirmed.

The community has pulled together amazingly. We've had a massive problem at the rest home, we produce a dumpster worth of rubbish from incontinence products every week and were due for a pick up on Tuesday. Our dumpster is half under a tree but half under the blazing sun. I went out the back today and there were 2 dumpsters worth of rubbish. The staff had just had to start stacking it around the dumpster. I had to move about 20 rubbish bags so at least they were under the tree in the shade instead of festering in the sun. Then we had the daughter of a former resident who died 6 months ago come in and tell us she'd organized a truck to come tomorrow and take it all away. We keep having members of the public come in with jerry cans of petrol for our generators, a spare gas bottle for our BBQ, a flat of slightly storm beaten but perfectly good pears, home baking they've made when they've been visiting family in areas with the power restored. They've set up a donation center at the hall down the road and they lady running it bought in incont products that had been donated from people who had them left over from when an elderly family member was still living at home (it's pretty common, they're provided free to people who are being cared for at home and when those people pass the families don't know what to do with the left over packs and we often have them turn up on the doorstep) we almost cried because she bought 4 packs of XL which we were almost out of and not sure when our supplier could get more, she's going to bring us any that get donated. Toilet paper is hard to get, the supermarkets are limiting it to 1 pack per customer. We called the local 4 Square and they let us buy 12 packs of 18. One of our generators broke down and a local motorbike mechanic came around and fixed it for free - he's been doing that for anyone with generator problems. We've been giving anyone who turns up with help some fresh grapes for a snack, the home is built around a central courtyard and we we have grapevine in there that was sheltered from the storm and the grapes are perfectly ripe right now.

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“Delegate Is Held After Complaint Regarding Relief,” Toronto Globe. October 24, 1932. Page 1. ---- City Asking Deportation for Allegedly Troublesome Irishman --- MAYOR WITHOUT ESCORT ---- Draper Withdraws Special Police Assigned to Prevent Annoyance ----- Leaving Mayor Stewart’s office late yesterday afternoon, after reading a carefully prepared document, in which he made a complaint regarding the treatment of the unemployed in city hostels, William McKnight, aged 23, no home, was arrested by city detectives, on instructions of Commissioner of Public Welfare A. W. Laver.

McKnight was taken to the nearest police station, and held on a charge of vagrancy. He will be remanded, and in the meantime Commissioner Laver will ask the Federal Department of Immigration to deport him to Ireland. McKnight said he was born in Dublin, but later claimed to be born in Belfast. Recently McKnight was arrested in connection with a case of stolen property, and after being held in the Don Jail, for some days, was released from custody. After his release, he took part in a meeting in a downtown church on Sunday afternoon, during which demands were framed by the unemployed.

Escort Withdrawn Coincident with McKnight’s arrest, Chief Constable Draper withdrew the police escort which has been accompanying the mayor about the city. The Mayor’s family have been annoyed greatly during the past three weeks by men of some organization, one of whom endeavored to prevent Miss Stewart from driving an automobile into the family garage. Mrs. Stewart has been annoyed also with telephone messages, during which she was subjected to abusive language.

Interrogated by Mayor Stewart yesterday afternoon, McKnight is said to have admitted that he was not alone in the agitation, and that there were two dozen men associated with him. He declared that while in jail on the former charge the Canadian Labor Defense League’s solicitor, Onie Brown, handled his case.

Commissioner of Public Welfare Laver stated that the charge of vagrancy would be preferred against him, because he, McKnight, had refused to do light work when his turn in Wellington House in return for food and lodging. The request for deportation must be made by the city on account of the policy of the Federal Government to deport a British-born citizen unless asked to do so by a municipality.

Rejects Assistance McKnight’s agitation on behalf of the unemployed took the form of a personal criticism on Saturday. He refused to accept what Wellington House had to offer him, tossed back into an official’s face a ticket for the Fred Victor Mission, and would have nothing to do with Seaton House. He charged that officials in charge of the hostels were ‘grafters and thieves,’ and alleged that one was intoxicated. McKnight, it is said, became more infuriated with each attempt on the part of the civic officials to satisfy his demands, and finally he left his office at Church and Adelaide Streets, asserting he intended to pay a visit to Mayor Stewart’s home last night to present his demands in person.

Police, who are in touch continually with the unemployed, learned what McKnight claimed he would do, and despatched an officer to Mayor Stewart’s home. McKnight, however, did not appear, and yesterday they were asked by Commissioner Laver to locate him.

Found at Mission McKnight is said to have been located in the Fred Victor Mission and taken to Detective headquarters in the City Hall by Detectives Waterhouse and Storm. The Mayor requested the police to bring him to his office. McKnight read his carefully prepared in which he claimed that the city had no legal right to send him to the House of Industry and that it was obliged to provide him with lodging and food as he required. The Mayor replied to him emphatically and finally instructed Commissioner Laver to take him away. As McKnight left the Mayor’s office, the Commissioner called the police and ordered his arrest.

McKnight is said to have told Commissioner Laver that he and his wife were on relief distributed from the House of Industry in 1930 and that Mrs. McKnight returned to Ireland nine months ago.

Mayor Stewart and Commissioner Laver last night visited the hostels of the Department of Public Welfare. They found the hostels spotlessly clean, and in the rooms set aside for recreation, men in groups were singing the more familiar hymns. In one hostel, a clergyman sought the right to speak to the men. This was refused him by Commissioner Laver, who pointed out that any man living in city hostels could attend a church, and there were churches of all denominations in the heart of the city.

When Detectives Harold Waterhouse and Fred Storm asked McKnight what the trouble was, he is alleged to have accused Commissioner Laver, Captain Heron and the staff administering welfare work in the city of ‘grafting.’

Complains of Food Detective Waterhouse reported the prisoner was livng in the Wellington House. He said he refused to eat the food given in the House of Industry, claiming it was not fit to eat.

He complained bitterly of the food in the Wellington House, declaring that for the amount of money expended by the city to provide for the unemployed, those adminsitering the relief must be grafting. It was then, police allege, that he mentioned the names of the officials.

It is charged by police, McKnight has spent much time agitating inmates of the Wellington House and the House of Industry. Complaints have reached police of McKnight addressing those on relief, and making bitter remarks about food and living quarters for the needy.

Searching a room of a house in Dundas Street East, last night, police found asuitcase, which, they say, belongs to McKnight. It was correspondence from Irish papers in which McKnight had articles published concerning the Free State.

Police also claim to have established evidence that McKnight had been writing letters to different city appears protesting against the City Welfare Department. The articles were written, they said, under the signature of ‘Irishman.’ A number of obscene pictures are also alleged to have been found in the house.

When asked if it was true, his wife had returned to Ireland, McKnight told the detectives it was so, and it was then he announced his desire to be deported.

[AL; McKnight sounds like an awesome dude, fighting the good fight, making life miserable for the Mayor of Toronto and the god-botherers that ran the cities shelters for unemployed and homeless.]

#toronto #working class hero #unemployment relief #unemployed #agitator #unemployed protest #political protest #what the ruling class does when it rules #unemployment #unemployed workers' association #house of industry #homeless shelter #welfare as social control #punishing the poor #irish immigration to canada #great depression in canada #crime and punishment in canada #history of crime and punishment in canada #the vagrant as criminal #canadian labor defence league

[lordhelpme0-0]

I now made two Ikevamp Oc who are basically visiting grandmothers by now..FU—!

Anyway~! Here..have some mommy Ý Lan and Olga bonding with both residents.

With Vlad

Vlad: Grandma~!! I brought flowers~! *holds house pots and poetry that was stolen from Will*

Olga: ah..my little munchkin. Do come in, I was just finish praying. Vlad: I’ve brought the arrangements, does that mean you stop Comte’s Mansion? Olga: no, just put it over there. Let me see Will new poetry. Vlad:

With Napoleon

Ỷ Lan: Napoleon dear, have you seen my golden seal?

Napoleon: No I have not, your highness. Ỷ Lan: Oh stop, I’m not royalty anymore. Though, I do have letters from Wellington. Aiyah! Jean, why do you look so pale! Have you not taken your blanc?? Jean: No, I haven’t. I’m sorry… Ý Lan: it’s alright..come, let’s get you some blanc. With William William: Ah! If it isn’t the two esteemed ladies? [I ain’t doing Shakespeare..] Olga: hm.. Ỷ Lan: Hello Will, is that Charle I see? William: William: Blast it… *him and Charles always gang up on the Comte resident [Theo and arthur] but they know)

#ikemen vampire oc #ikevamp oc #ikemen Olga #Ikemen Ý Lan #ikemen cybird #cybird ikemen #Ikemen vampire

[espensenherskind4]

William Knight Author Associated with Generation: A Writer Speaks

William Knight is definitely a British-born writer and technologist at the moment living and doing work in Wellington, New Zealand. He's chased a varying profession starting in performing, progressing to music, enjoyed a brief flirtation with ladies handbag manufacturing and had been eventually wired straight into technology. In the year 2003 he published their first feature throughout Computing magazine plus has since created about the several successes and failings of high-tech regarding the Guardian, Economical Times and BASSE CONSOMMATION Focus among several other publications. He continues to compose, and maintains some sort of lively IT consultancy. If you had to offer a quite brief synopsis regarding your book, precisely what might say should you only had 30 seconds to say that? Journalist Hendrix 'Aitch' Harrison links systems stolen from the renowned forensic research enclosure to the influential medication company specialising within genetic modification. Helped by Sarah Wallace, a determined and even beguiling forensic entomologist, he delves directly into a grisly entire world of clinical trial offers and also a viral remedy beyond imagination. Although Aitch must struggle greater than his concern of technology to be able to expose the sombre fate of the particular drugged bodies bestowed to scientific research. Here's some fun queries, at least they may fun for us. Are usually most overrated virtue? Crap, which hard. Intelligence, most likely; Only the really ridiculous among us have typically the confidence to inquire queries that chase elephants from rooms. What is the 1 thing other people constantly seem to find wrong about an individual? That I is confident. I'm not, I'm shateringly shy with some sort of stomach-squirming ability to act like the confident person. My partner and i shudder at the speeches and presentations There are made, and in my personal hideaway am deeply embarrassed at perhaps innocuous mistakes We have made in social situations. Even publishing these words sends a tingle associated with pain up our spine in situation these are read by simply anyone. If you could change a single thing about the particular world what might it be? My partner and i would remove all the fossil fuels, coal, gas and oil from the particular planet. Climate transformation would be fixed, we wouldn't have noisy polluting automobiles spoiling our fantastic cities, petro-political battles would end, plus the communities would the natural way reform around towns and villages. All of us pay a wonderful cost for fossil fuels as well as the price is going upwards constantly. What pet peeve do an individual have about other folks? My wife often leaves lids un-tightened on the side bottles, cisterns, toothpaste tubes in addition to the like. This kind of irritates to muddiness. I pick upward jam by the particular lid and it also terme conseillé to the floor leaving me holding the lid; I am unable to count how several times I have lost a jar of gherkins in order to the kitchen ceramic tiles. Is there any kind of occasion if it's OKAY to lie? Zero, of course not really. (err.. just inside cast that won't find in textual content, what a lie). (In any case, hype is really a lie, the book is some sort of lie, it really is total of lies from your first page for the last. Isn't that this point of fictional? ) Now let's take a talk about the particular writing. What will be your philosophy associated with writing? This problem is best served by my favourite writing quote: "The art of publishing is the skill of applying the particular seat of typically the pants to the seat in the chair. " When I publish, I do lots of sitting. I imply A GREAT DEAL. more info believed a bus car owner will do a lot involving sitting, but that will is nothing in comparison to the time I expend sitting. I am a king of sitters, and with some point, right after sitting for the big part of my entire life, a book converts up. What's the particular name and type of you reserve? The book is called Generation, it is definitely a corporate-crime thriller with an treatment of horror. Some have said really Science Fiction together with a horror decoration, and I'll enjoyably call it risky fiction. But it's meant to end up being real; so near to possibility you'll be afraid it merely might happen. That is the group for this book? Really an adult guide, ad advertisement chiller intended for lovers of criminal offense, science, SF, plus did I talk about there are a bit associated with horror. Describe the protagonist and illustrate the challenges typically the protagonist should get over and the determination for overcoming them. Hendrix Harrison is a techno-phobic journalist. Approaching middle age, plus out of issue since an emotional discharge from the services, he is incapable to steer his / her career in some sort of "worthy" direction. Because its a "bit of fun", this individual works for some sort of "conspiracy theorists wank mag" chasing ghouls and mythical-beasts about the English region side, but inside of he dreams involving breaking a major story. He must defeat his anxiety about technology and face the particular reasons for their discharge to dominate. Above all, he must re-visit typically the bunker in Afghanistan that stole his / her confidence, but this time through he must go back again for his acquaintances. Describe your antagonist and talk concerning motivation. DeBonfort is definitely a lover of fine architecture, excellent English shoes along with the money that enables him to find them. In the beginning they are motivated only be the wanting to be able to do his job within an effective and even professional manner. By simply the end he is backed into a corner of the own vanity, incapable to fact the truth but unable both to back lower. Quote a passing through your book that will you love. There is a quote in writing to "Kill your darlings. " Therefore it is quite likely the passages I personally believe are great, are usually the very phrases I should include cut out throughout the edit. Nevertheless, here's a hundred words I've individually chosen to reveal with you, cos I love these people. "For fuck's sake, you have to get over this. Look across the road and you will see a store outlet. It's named a shop. Purchase a new phone. I am going to pay for this. These web-fired meedja grads think is actually the only thing that matters, in addition to we've made a commitment to the brand-new owners to update. I'm only asking you to send a few texts, in addition to only then when you're out and about. We've obtained kids queuing upwards to follow you on Twitter, you aren't our star copy writer, and you're missing a trick in case you don't give them something on their terms. " Elaborate on the meaning in the verse. This passage is definitely spoken by to the protagonist, Hendrix Harrison, by their editor attempting to enthuse Hendrix with modern technology. It can easily be taken at face value, just about all introduces a continuing theme about the duality (good and bad) of technological advances. Hendrix's do not like of technology helps prevent him being followed by hi-tech evil doers later in typically the novel, but the final embrace of the technological generation not only motivates the novel's subject but also leads to his final victory over the villain. What surprising things did you learn while writing this particular book? I am a new perfectionist. I used to be constantly aware I had fashioned the particular capability to care deeply about just how things were carried out, from experiences together with decorating and building my own furniture. But when I create -- and am take pleasure in the cutting and even editing more as compared to writing the very first draft -- I actually will spend times sitting and gazing until I find the appropriate set of words, and the perfect flow of ideas. How has your childhood influenced you publishing? Brothers and sisters are very powerful bashers of objetivo. There are six littermates. I hope I was a realist, and I hope my personal work is available to any or all, even in the event that they don't just like zombies. Where would you live and exactly how does that affect your writing? Each and every book I compose continues to be set on the last major town I occupied. Generation is established in the North Distance of England, exactly where I spent a new year moving into Jesmond and where My partner and i met my partner. Perform you prefer fermented or distilled? Fermented. When you have a job outside of composing how does it squeeze into your life as a copy writer? Honestly I don't believe it does suit. I work as a computer advisor, and in while much as I make enough money to spend a month writing the following manuscript every 18 months or therefore, it works nicely, but I'd very much rather be creating novels full moment. Nevertheless , I would spend six decades working like a technology journalist for various magazines and newspaper publishers including the BBC and The Guard, however quite to be truthful, I found living as freelance writer very lonely. There is really not enough press-junkets and excursions abroad, most associated with the work is front of a new desk in a good office intended for 1. 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New Zealand MP caught on CCTV stealing handbag from store, resigns afterwards

A New Zealand Member of Parliament (MP) has resigned following multiple allegations of shoplifting. Golriz Ghahraman, of the Green Party, is alleged to have stolen three times from two clothing stores – one in Auckland and the other in Wellington. The former UN human rights lawyer made history in 2017 as the first refugee in the country’s government. She said work-related stress made her…

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"Guelph Police Burst into Action: Shocking Discovery and Intrigue Unveiled during Downtown Business Break-In"

Guelph police have made an arrest after catching two men in the act of breaking into a downtown business. The incident was reported by the owner shortly before 6:30 a.m. on Thursday, prompting officers to respond to the location on Wellington Street. According to reports, the men arrived in a stolen BMW SUV and reversed through the front doors. They proceeded to load approximately $10,000 worth…

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"Guelph Police Burst into Action: Shocking Discovery and Intrigue Unveiled during Downtown Business Break-In"

Guelph police have made an arrest after catching two men in the act of breaking into a downtown business. The incident was reported by the owner shortly before 6:30 a.m. on Thursday, prompting officers to respond to the location on Wellington Street. According to reports, the men arrived in a stolen BMW SUV and reversed through the front doors. They proceeded to load approximately $10,000 worth…

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"Guelph Police Burst into Action: Shocking Discovery and Intrigue Unveiled during Downtown Business Break-In"

Guelph police have made an arrest after catching two men in the act of breaking into a downtown business. The incident was reported by the owner shortly before 6:30 a.m. on Thursday, prompting officers to respond to the location on Wellington Street. According to reports, the men arrived in a stolen BMW SUV and reversed through the front doors. They proceeded to load approximately $10,000 worth…

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The Mystery of the Blackheath Icons

The Icons will be blessed on the Feast of the Transfiguration of Jesus on Sunday 6 August at St Peter's on Willis in Wellington, New Zealand

From 1968 to 1981 Canon Paul Oestreicher was Vicar of the Blackheath Church of the Ascension in South London. From 1697 this church had been the private chapel of the Earls of Dartmouth. A miniature gem, it was almost certainly designed by a pupil of Christopher Wren, the architect of St Paul’s Cathedral. The Church’s vicarage in Dartmouth Row lies directly opposite the Chapel which in 1883 became a parish church. It lies on the pilgrimage path from Canterbury Cathedral to Southwark Cathedral, by London Bridge.

In the 1970s its glass panelled doors were open by day and night, the lit sanctuary inviting the men of the road to make it their shelter for a night or more. The parish had become part of Bishop John Robinson’s bold ‘South-Bank Network’, hearkening back to the South London Peasant Revolt in 1381 when Wat Tyler’s priest, the Revd John Ball, declared on Blackheath that ‘under God all people are equal’. Tyler and Ball were made to pay with their lives. Hard times then, hard times for Jesus (as in Palestine today), hard times for the poor right here and now.

Church of the Ascension Dartmouth Row Blackheath London SE10 8BF

One Sunday morning, as the vicar went to preside at the early Eucharist he almost tripped over four parcels by his front door wrapped in plain brown paper. He returned to take a look, an hour later. What he found were four remarkable, expertly painted modern icons. This was not classical iconography but nevertheless paintings that radiated good news, bringing Jesus and his disciples to life.

Why were these icons there? Who put them on the Vicar’s doorstep? It remains a mystery. There is no artist’s signature. There is nothing pointing to their origin other than the unknown artist’s devotion. Had a thief possibly stolen the icons and, unable to make them pay, decided that this was a better place? But no theft had been reported. They were, it seems, where they were meant to be, probably brought by the painter him or herself, expecting no reward. An Angel maybe bringing sacred gifts. The icons lived on in a busy vicarage, admired by guests from near and far. Two were gifted to others. These two were kept:

Jesus and his twelve apostles at the Last Supper and before that supper

Jesus washing the feet of his disciples

Fast forward to 2023. Paul Oestreicher has moved to Te Aro. In our one world, the Gospel of Jesus has no borders. Icons speak everywhere. The former South Bank vicar is now a St Peter’s person ‘in, of and for the people of Te Aro’. The icons are calling for a new home, a place of peace and prayer where Jesus says to his friends, “fear not little flock, it is the Father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.” That Kingdom is present on Willis and everywhere else.

May this then become the home of the Blackheath Icons, dedicated on this 6th day of August 2023, the Feast of the Transfiguration of Christ, and of the Disfiguration of Creation on the 6th Day of August 1945 by the atom bomb that turned to ashes the city of Hiroshima and its people. Lord Have Mercy. Christ Have Mercy. Lord Have Mercy

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Stolen NZ data listed for sale on dark web

Stolen NZ data listed for sale on dark web

Multiple New Zealand businesses caught in a large-scale ransomware attack have had their data listed for sale on the dark web. The businesses were all customers of Wellington information technology firm Mercury IT, itself the victim of a ransomware attack understood to be by a cybercriminal gang known as Lockbit. Health insurer Accuro, architecture firm Catalyst Group, business mentoring…

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