In response to the recent MPs-charging-personal-items-to-their-credit-cards scandal, a website is enlisting all of us to review MPs’ credit card receipts. And we are replying. I saw this when it first went up yesterday: 18 hours later, over 50% of the available receipts have been reviewed. Utterly fascinating.
Entries Tagged as 'social mores'
Rug Up, Mate: Wellington Storm Wear Strategies
June 9th, 2010 2 Comments
How long has it been raining for? Three weeks? Four? Welcome to the Wellington winter, with its lashing mix of rain and cold winds direct from Antarctica. Someday, genetic engineering will create the perfect human for the Wellington environment. Along with a third limb to hold a coffee cup or commuting bags, they will have […]
Tags: social mores · style · weather
Frankie’s Friday
June 4th, 2010 1 Comment
Frankie lives, modestly but mortgage-free, on the Kapiti Coast. She takes the train to work part-time in Wellington three days a week. This schedule keeps her from getting burned out by the nonsense at the Department of Stodge, and gives her time for her own pursuits. Frankie and some of her artsy friends have a […]
Tags: glbt-queer · kapiti coast · karin · social mores
Bogan 3.0: Our Bogans, Our Selves
May 24th, 2010 4 Comments
Wazzer has been asked to model in an avant-garde fashion show. Wayne, having received an okay-for-the-recession bonus for managing his software development team, is listening to AC/DC on his upgraded iPhone. Wayland runs a hand through his hair and says, “I’m rough as guts, under the suit,†and everyone swoons. Welcome to the triumph of […]
Tags: bogans · social mores · wayne · wazzer
1 BR Avail., Hataitai, Share W/Prof F
May 17th, 2010 Comments Off on 1 BR Avail., Hataitai, Share W/Prof F
Meanwhile, far from the Flat of Legend, Willow’s been finding the mortgage a bit tight. Sitting down to balance her budget, she grits her teeth. She knew home owning would change her spending, but there were things she hadn’t anticipated. She shouldn’t have paid so much for that kitten. Or to have the peach-coloured tub […]
Tags: social mores · unreal estate · wazzer · willow
The Flat of Legend
May 14th, 2010 2 Comments
Flatting isn’t always bad. When flat veterans are in a more mellow mood, they will talk to each other, in hushed and reverent tones, about the Flat of Legend. Somewhere in the mists of Aro Valley, up a leafy side street, there is the Flat of Legend. On winter nights when the Pleiades shine unimpaired, […]
Tags: old city · real estate · social mores · unreal estate · welly at its best
My Squalor Was More Squalid
May 12th, 2010 1 Comment
Winona has joined Will and his co-workers for after work drinks. One of them has asked where Winona is working, and gotten more than he bargained for as she describes her ongoing interviewing experiences with the Department of Stodge. “…so then I spent all afternoon taking those bizarre employment-fitness psychological tests. The ones where they […]
Tags: beer · real estate · social mores · will · winona
The Starfish
May 11th, 2010 1 Comment
“Get in the car! I said, get in the car! Get in the car NOW!†Helena Hutt takes the deep breaths familiar to any mummy trying very hard not to scream at the children. Right now she is driving them all to an ear specialist doctor, 30 minutes and a parking nightmare away in Newtown. […]
Tags: geography · helena · romance · social mores
Craft Fair Chaos
April 30th, 2010 2 Comments
Willow texts Winona and asks if she wants to go to the market this weekend. Winona replies, asking which market? Willow said that she has heard of a farmer’s market that has started up in one of the parks. Winona asks if she means the one in Thorndon, or Te Aro, or on the waterfront? […]
Tags: food · social mores · willow · winona
Unbrunched
April 23rd, 2010 1 Comment
There is now a new indignity for Willow to endure as a single Wellington woman. For three weekends in a row, she has been unbrunched. The dust from her move has settled, the little townhouse in Hataitai is all hers, avocado 1970s kitchen, peach-hued bathroom, and all. She had pictured entertaining in the rimu breakfast […]
Tags: food · social mores · willow