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The World’s Best(???) Christmas Shop

Posted on December 18, 2012 by newenglandkiwi

You know that thing where the closer you live to a tourist attraction, the less likely you are to actually visit it? Like how I lived in Christchurch for six years and never visited the Antarctic Centre (although that had … Continue reading →

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Culture and the Car

Posted on June 12, 2012 by newenglandkiwi

After a bit more mucking around last week, we did end up taking possession of the car we couldn’t get the lease on, mostly because the dealership was sufficiently apologetic and the maths on buying it was sufficiently similar (assuming … Continue reading →

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New York: Part Two

Posted on March 5, 2012 by newenglandkiwi

The first time we came to New York, we didn’t have a lot of time to take in the general ambiance of the city, as it were, since we spent most of our 22 hours sleeping, talking to people in … Continue reading →

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New York: Part One

Posted on February 28, 2012 by newenglandkiwi

One of the things I like to tell people about Western Massachusetts which is both strictly true and kind of misleading is that we’re “only three hours from New York”, which makes it sound like an exciting day trip we … Continue reading →

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Creditable

Posted on February 6, 2012 by newenglandkiwi

Yesterday we had people over for the Superbowl, because I still don’t understand very much about American football but the ceremony of the whole thing is highly entertaining (I have watched so many Republican debates I can critique the quality … Continue reading →

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A Bit Meta

Posted on January 23, 2012 by newenglandkiwi

This being a Presidential election year, and us having cable, I have now watched more Republican presidential debates than I ever really wanted to in my life*, especially since the various candidates routinely put our television in severe danger. (There … Continue reading →

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Te Ao Nui

Posted on January 15, 2012 by newenglandkiwi

The non-graduate-student members of the department are gradually starting to drift back in from their winter holidays (the university shuts down for a month, but most grad students take about a week off, if that) to a slightly-more-snowy-but-not-really Massachusetts. Our … Continue reading →

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A Winter Solstice Holiday

Posted on December 11, 2011 by newenglandkiwi

We’re still snow-free here in Massachusetts (after the remnants of the Halloween Snowpocalypse melted away) but it is, nevertheless, almost Christmas. It’s like it happens every year or something. This week, my attention was particularly caught by one of the … Continue reading →

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Talking Turkey

Posted on November 13, 2011 by newenglandkiwi

Last weekend, we went to the supermarket. There was a sale on turkeys. This is not particularly surprising, it being three weeks before Thanksgiving (our Thanksgiving plans do not include turkey, because the person probably doing the cooking laughed very … Continue reading →

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What Winning Feels Like

Posted on October 24, 2011 by newenglandkiwi

Our Rugby World Cup, in this corner of the globe where they don’t care much for rugby at all, if they recognise it as anything other than the distant ancestor of American Football, turned – much to my surprise, I … Continue reading →

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