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Pigeon foes: Steve Braunias takes on avian thugs (opens the original)
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Pigeons: Making life a misery. Photo / Getty Images The pigeons continue to make my life a misery. A previous edition of this column (you can read it here) told how six feral pigeons began turning up at my house and laying claim to the seeds I had set out every day for years, enjoyed by birds of different species, content to share the feeding table with each other, forming a kind of commune – in essence, good birds. But the pigeons are bad birds. Large, angry, stupid fascists, they frightened ev
Steve Braunias: Survival stories are the best stories (opens the original)
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A twist of fate could mean any one of us being pursued by a polar bear in the Arctic wastes. Photo / Getty Images Survival stories are the best stories, pulling us along on tense, arduous tests of endurance and courage as we sit on our chuff and turn the page. I recently found a cheap paperback copy of The Long Walk by Słavomir Rawicz at the Featherston train station. It was the ideal form of cheap: it didn’t cost anything, was on a shelf of a free library, which has become a kind of national fe
Gulf Harbour body in the bag case: How a deadly nightmare played out in suburban Auckland (opens the original)
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Part one of a two-part encounter with the cult leader who dumped the body of follower Shulai Wang in Gulf Harbour. The first thing I said to Kaixiao Liu when I visited him at his house during his recent five-week trial at the High Court of Auckland was, “Who are you?” When he speaks Mandarin, his voice is light and flowing; in English, he speaks in a deep, strangely toneless bark. He replied, “Just normal man.” But that wasn’t true and neither, I suppose, was a great deal of what he said in four
Steve Braunias: Saturdays are a test of masculine virtues (opens the original)
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Steve Braunias: Our reward for working like a dog all week is to work like a dog around the house. Photo / Getty Images Saturdays are one of the great days in New Zealand life: character-forming, active, in motion, a day of chores and pleasures – our reward for working like a dog all week is to work like a dog around the house. I love it. I live this latter part of my life as someone devoted to performing all sorts of mundane tasks. I think that it’s in part driven by my long-standing desire to
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