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Leah McFall: When it’s time for an annual physical stocktake (opens the original)
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Tragic: Barbara Hershey and Bette Midler in Beaches. Photo / Supplied It’s your birthday, and time for your annual stocktake. This isn’t a significant year to mention – unless, you suppose, it’s your last. More people than ever seem to be dying in surprise, especially in hospitals. Why not you, and soon? FACE: Holding up, all things considered, although not everyone may agree. Weird things have been happening to it lately. Dark patches appear, then vanish again. Your eyes are getting piggy and y
Leah McFall: When did it become embarrassing to read a book in public? (opens the original)
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Insouciant: Reading a book in public should be cool again. Photo / Getty Images I’m reading a book about the decline of reading, and it’s giving me the trots. The irony is that hardly anyone will read it, so let me summarise. Reading rates are falling off a cliff, especially among the young. This is leading to a reverse Enlightenment – a darkening of human culture. I don’t have to tell you the smartphone is a leading reason why. I don’t have to tell you democracy is doomed without literacy. We’r
Leah McFall: What the hell, Karori? (opens the original)
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Tipping point: A polar blast hit Wellington on August 4. Photo / Getty Images It was a day to walk briskly, surely the coldest of the year. One shopper walked faster than most, striding purposefully past the shops. She seemed cross as a wasp, her annoyance carrying her along until she burst out with a question, one for the ages, which was: “What the hell, Karori?” Your impulse was to catch her up. Who wouldn’t want to meet the most charismatic person on the street, if not the city? She’d only sa
Leah McFall: When did the business of washing our clothes become so lonely? (opens the original)
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The eternal spin of the spotless grind. Photo / Getty Images Your beautiful laundrette is on the suburban main road, between a kebab shop and a place selling mowers and chainsaws. It rejects this description by declaring itself a LAUNDROMAT, and truthfully, there’s nothing attractive about it: rows of machines under harsh striplighting and a central length of metal table, evoking autopsy. Nobody works here; it’s self-service. It’s 10 bucks for a 40-minute wash and the same goes for the dryers. J
Leah McFall: Farewell to a kitchen obsession as the next trend arrives (opens the original)
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Déclassé: The big white kitchen, sans sous vide oven. Photo / Getty Images Is the sous vide oven still a thing? For a while, it was all anyone seemed to talk about. Before that it was the induction hob and soon after, the instant boiling-water tap. The latter are now common in designer kitchens and no longer worth a conversation; yet, like the double-drawer dishwasher, these once marked you out as a householder of taste. But the sous vide – an extra oven, beneath the oven! Looking back, it was a
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