FROM THE SUNDAY PAPERS

After a coffee, breakfast, and another coffee on Sunday mornings I usually settle down for a couple of hours with the Sunday Star Times and the Herald on Sunday always read in that order as I find the SST more thoughtful and engaging compared to the more flippertyjibbet style of the HOS.

Here are my favourite pieces from yesterday’s papers:

SUNDAY STAR TIMES:

Rachel Pike, one of the 2006/2007 PricewaterhouseCoopers Dame Malvina Major Emerging Artists programme run by the NBR New Zealand Opera interviewed on “the Sunday grill” when asked to complete the sentence New Zealand needs more……….
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Straight, attractive, tattooed, single men who would like to date me.


Kim Knight in her review of Liquidity Dining in Lounge
(located at 128 Oxford Street, Christchurch) in describing the dessert had this to say:
“The tirasamu is declared more Caroline Bay than Lake Como………”


Three excerpts from Steve Braunias in his entertaining piece “clouding over”:

I bowled along to numerous literary events during my wanderings around England last year. One night in London, in the penthouse suite of New Zealand House, I attended the launch for
CK Stead’s novel, “My Name Was Judas”. A fat man whose name was Jonathan Hunt greeted everyone at the door; it was very formal – suits and champagne, oysters and a coatroom, Alan Hollinghurst and Roger Donaldson, an amAzing view over the Thames.

See for yourself by banging in Cloud Appreciation Society on Google. And then have a look at all the fantastic photographs of clouds taken in New Zealand. A sunset in Napier by Felix Minde, a jet-stream cirrus in Katikati by Bryan Chudleigh, the famous Nor’West Arch in Canterbury by Peter Rees.

But where are the best clouds at sunrise? Are they in Gisborne, the first to see the sun? Where are the best clouds at sunset? The best cumuls clouds, cirrus clouds, nimbus clouds, and all the rest?
Any keen observers – writers, photographers, artists – of clouds are more than welcome to reply to the e-mail address below, with their evocations of clouds across and over New Zealand. A display would look good in this magazine.
Stephen.b@star-times.co.nz

Finally from the SST just a mention of their commitment to book reviewing amply illustrated yesterday by Iain Sharp’s longish backgrounder and interview with Conn Iggulden, author of The Dangerous Book for Boys (Harper Collins), one of the biggest selling books in NZ this past Christmas, and reviews on three books about the Israel-Palestine problem which originally appeared in the Guardian.



HERALD ON SUNDAY


“Top-end real estate agent Graham Wall said the price of prime New Zealand was ‘about to explode’. Every single piece of coastline and harbourside in NZ is massively undervalued. New Zealand is the only place on earth that is advantaged by the global phenomena that is disadvantaging the rest of the world. Things like pollution and overcrowding means isolation works for us.
He predicted that prime properties in places like the Bay of Islands, Hawkes Bay and Queenstown, and waterfront properties around Auckland were about to enjoy “an explosion in value", simply because NZ’s time has come.


A beaver has been spotted in New York City for the first time in more than 200 years. A North American beaver has been photographed in the Bronx River, a once-filthy waterway that runs through the Bronx Zoo.