It's Zombie Awareness Month. Do you know where your cricket bat/lawnmower/blunt object of choice is? No, but seriously, it IS zombie awareness month. What's more, it's nearly over and I haven't even revised my evacuation plan or topped up the first aid kit in case of the Zombie Apocalypse. I deserve to get my brains…
Ready, set, READ
My toddler loves books and at only one year-old he already has his favourites (Boom, baby boom boom! gets regular outings) however he's a bit young yet to read them himself. But how do you know when your littl'un is ready to start tackling the mighty task of reading? For advice you need look no further than our recently…
Holy cow, the X-Files
It's coming back, ladies and gentlemen. THIS IS NOT A DRILL. Yes, X-Files fans the world over (or X-Philes as we like to call ourselves) got the rock solid confirmation they were waiting for this week when Fox announced the date that a new six-episode series of the show will air. 24 January 2016. Scribble that…
Nancy Drew…85 years young
It seems hard to believe, but Nancy Drew, girl detective, turned 85 last week. She was the creation of 24 year-old Mildred A. Wirt. Wirt wrote 23 of the first 30 Nancy Drew books, the very first of which was The secret of the old clock, published on 28 April, 1930. Wirt is described in…
Early New Zealand music
Music was a welcome distraction for New Zealand’s early European settlers, who brought songs with them from their homelands, and who quickly developed new folksongs and ballads to sing about and cope with their harsh experiences of life in New Zealand. Much early European New Zealand music focuses on life on the frontier whaling and…
How Marvel-lous
Moata breaks down the Marvel Cinematic Universe Phases 1 to 3.
A lesson for conscriptionists
We've recently digitised a very interesting publication that shows a different side to military service than the one we're used to seeing. In 1912, military training or "drills" were compulsory for boys from 14 years of age. Refusal to attend training, even on religious grounds, was considered a serious infringement that could result in confinement at a…
Goodbye, Gilbert Blythe
If you were a teenage girl during the 1980s and watched television then you were probably enraptured with the Anne of Green Gables TV series based on the novels of L. M. Montgomery. And there's a good chance you were smitten with Anne Shirley's regular tormentor/rescuer/romantic interest Gilbert Blythe…
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