HeyJaredThe Sit Spot
A weekly newsletter of observations, field notes, ruminations and recommendations from writer Maggie MacKellar.
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James the Corgi, an update (opens the original)
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During the height of the Covid lockdowns, when my Sydney-based brother and his wife were juggling two small children being homeschooled while both trying to hold down full time jobs, I used to ring on the daily and ask how his dog Bob was coping with the whole situation. How’s Bob today? I’d ask. He’s a bit stressed, he’d say, he wants a good long walk,… Read more
The click of certainty (opens the original)
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Outside it’s a glory of a day. The river is still. The sun is warm. In the horse paddock the magpies are busy stalking the edges of the rolling holes. They gather beakfulls of the oldies’ loosening winter coats. Their nests will be a patchwork quilt of brown and grey. The native hens (turbo chooks as they’re known here) have hatched their first clutch. … Read more
Kia Ora from New Zealand (opens the original)
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Dear Sitters, I’m writing to you from a little to the right of the shrinking, but still magnificent, toe of the Franz Josef Glacier. There’s a light frost and the snow covered peaks of the southern range are so sharply outlined against the blue sky they look like something out of a movie, but they’re not! and I glance out the window and pinch myself we’… Read more
Dispatch (#2) from the bookshop (opens the original)
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Frog chorus (opens the original)
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