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Transcription errors in a conversation with Kris Sowersby of Klim Type Foundry

Posted on October 7, 2020 by ashleighlou

Unknown Speaker 31:54: A friend of mine, she wrote her first book by opening a book of chickens. Unknown Speaker 32:32: Animals initial animals.  Unknown Speaker 14:17: She’s got my lower jaw. A lot of bone.  Unknown Speaker 47:30 The pretentious line is to say … Continue reading →

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Rehashing (iv)

Posted on September 19, 2020 by ashleighlou

I promise I won’t keep doing this too much longer. Maybe one more after this. But here’s one more rehashed newspaper column from the past, this one from June this year, which still feels like a long enough time ago … Continue reading →

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Rehashing (iii)

Posted on August 30, 2020 by ashleighlou

Today’s rehashed column is from August 2019, just after Ronnie Van Hout’s sculpture Quasimodo was installed on the roof of the Wellington City Gallery. The Hand      I’m going to look at the Hand in Wellington’s Civic Square for the first … Continue reading →

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Send in the clowns

Posted on August 23, 2020 by ashleighlou

A while I wrote something about clown collars for Metro magazine, but a month later Metro folded. I thought I’d post this here anyway – something from the Before times. I remember being a bit nervous about this piece because … Continue reading →

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Rehashing (ii)

Posted on August 17, 2020 by ashleighlou

It’s a strange feeling to revisit some of my old Canvas columns. Last week I was trying to write a short piece for Essential Services, a new magazine by former Metro editor Henry Oliver, about writing a column and why … Continue reading →

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Rehashing

Posted on August 12, 2020 by ashleighlou

I had a thought that I might revisit (well, rehash), every week or so, a column from my old(ish) Canvas column. This one is from October last year. I had just been to a writers’ festival. Looking back on some … Continue reading →

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Excitements

Posted on August 4, 2020 by ashleighlou

I was eating an apple when I got self-conscious. The student on work experience sitting at the table nearby would be able to hear my crunching and was probably bothered by it. But I also thought how freeing it would … Continue reading →

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Eleven

Posted on February 24, 2020 by ashleighlou

I was cleaning up my desktop while avoiding writing my column, and I came across this old photo of Jerry. It’s him at the vet’s in July 2014 after he’d been hit by a car. Not pictured is his big … Continue reading →

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The haircut

Posted on February 10, 2020 by ashleighlou

My childhood sweetheart rang. We hadn’t spoken in twenty-five years. He said, ‘Also, I am seeing somebody else now.’ He’d wanted to tell me earlier, but hadn’t been able to come out with it. My body started to tremble. I … Continue reading →

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The fastest route

Posted on January 25, 2020 by ashleighlou

I was riding my bike to the train station. With me was a large dog that was very old and sick. I was carrying it in a large white sling. Behind us in a trailer were all the things we … Continue reading →

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