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Sam Hill
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‘Of course I believe in free will. I have no choice.’ (Hitchens)
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Bloomin’ beauties from Sir Dove Meyer Robinson Park in Auckland, New Zealand
November 27, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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November 19, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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Peter Dowling talks with Dale Husband on Waatea News about the book New Zealand Place Names
Common, Contested and Curious Names from Aotearoa to Zalatown
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Peter Dowling | whats behind our NZ place names?
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November 20, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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Oh look, Grandads down the pub!
John, I'm Only Dancing (2024 Remaster)
YouTube video by David Bowie - Topic
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November 20, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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My painting THUNDERSTORM
October 18, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Oratia Media is one of New Zealand’s most active independent book publishers. Founded in 2000 as a publishing services company by Kiwi-Italian couple Alessandra Zecchini and Peter Dowling ...
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Interview: Peter Dowling talks about Oratia’s 25th anniversary and its new imprint, Five Oceans
Oratia Media is one of New Zealand’s most active independent book publishers. Founded in 2000 as a publishing services company by Kiwi-Italian couple Alessandra Zecchini and Peter Dowling, it has grow...
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October 9, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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#OratiaMedia marks #25years with launch of #FiveOceans imprint
Founded 31/8/2000 by Peter Dowling and Alessandra Zecchini as a publishing services business, it later focused on #OratiaBooks and is now launching an international books series oratia.co.nz/general/orat...
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Oratia Media marks 25 years with launch of Five Oceans imprint | Oratia Media
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August 31, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Calman (Ngāti Toa, Ngāti Raukawa, Kāi Tahu) has written more than a dozen books on NZ history, including on the Treaty, the New Zealand Wars and on his own ancestor, Te Rauparaha.
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Ross Calman’s Treaty book wins top children’s literature awards
A children’s book about Te Tiriti o Waitangi has won top honours in a landmark year for Māori storytelling and literature for young New Zealanders.
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August 13, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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David Bowie - D.J. (HD upgrade)

Lodger (1979)

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David Bowie – D.J. (HD upgrade)

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May 24, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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The new stuff is tasty

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Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Taste (Official Lyric Video)
YouTube video by Sophie Ellis-Bextor
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May 9, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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BOTD Christopher Hitchens!!
Disagreed w/him often, but so miss his voice today
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Orwell: www.vanityfair.com/culture/2012...
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Why Christopher Hitchens Still Matters
A contrarian Christmas provocation.
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April 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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Haha! Love this letter from Douglas Adams to his US editor about not Americanising the text of Hitchhiker's Guide. 🐋🌸
Date: Monday, January 13, 1992, 5:26 pm To: Byron Preiss Dear Byron, Thanks for the script of the novel. I don't know what happened to the first one. It may have been a victim of the office move (see above). I'll respond as quickly and briefly as possible. One general point. A thing I have had said to me over and over again whenever I've done public appearances and readings and so on in the States is this: Please don't let anyone Americanise it! We like it the way it is! There are some changes in the script that simply don't make sense. Arthur Dent is English, the setting is England, and has been in every single manifestation of HHGG ever. The 'Horse and Groom' pub that Arthur and Ford go to is an English pub, the 'pounds' they pay with are English (but make it twenty pounds rather than five- inflation) So why suddenly 'Newark' instead of 'Rickmansworth'? And 'Bloomingdales' instead of 'Marks & Spencer'? The fact that Rickmansworth is not within the continental United States doesn't mean that it doesn't exist! American audiences do not need to feel disturbed by the notion that places do exist outside the US or that people might suddenly refer to them in works of fiction. You wouldn't, presumably, replace Ursa Minor Beta with 'Des Moines'. There is no Bloomingdales in England, and Bloomingdales is not a generic term for large department stores. If you feel that referring to "Marks & Spencer' might seriously freak out Americans because they haven't heard of it (or because Marks and Spencer owns Brooks Brothers) we could either put warning stickers on the cover ("The text of this book contains references to places and institutions outside the continental United States and may cause offence to people who haven't heard of them") or you could, I suppose, put 'Harrods', which most people will have heard of. Or we could even take the appalling risk of just recklessly mentioning things that people won't have heard of and see if they survive the experience. They probably will - when people are born they haven't heard of anything or anywhere, but seem to get through the first few years of their lives without ill-effects.
April 7, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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Spydere Man, Spydere Man
Doth al things a spydere kan
Sondry webbes he kan weaven
Thieves lyke flyes he kan cacchen
Lo! anon cometh Spydere Man
April 4, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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The Prince of Darkness says Sundays are great for chilling out with our human … we haz snax now?
March 30, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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Sophie Ellis-Bextor - Relentless Love (Official Visualiser)
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March 29, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Just read someone refer to this as bloomscrolling and I love it
February 6, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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O-P-U-L-E-N-C-E !
January 29, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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I think we can all agree only pop music can save us now

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The Knocks & Dragonette - Keynote [Official Video]
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January 26, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Some more bodacious beauties from the rose gardens at Sir Dove Meyer Robinson park in Parnell, Auckland 🤩 These gardens are always a feast for the senses
January 22, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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A bouquet for all of my friends who suggested checking this platform out. It’s quite lovely here 💥🌈
January 17, 2025 at 12:51 AM