When I was newly 16 and my little sister around 14, we were with my parents in our holiday place up at the lake. It’s a very quiet area; no shops, mostly retirees who fish, that sort of thing. So you can imagine our glee when a car pulled up across the road and out got 3 teenaged adonises, all surfer hair and 18 year…

Ah, my home town.... doing me proud, I see. There is a long-standing tradition of tooting your car horn long and loud as you travel through that tunnel - gotta say I prefer it to this new approach!

Oh man that book about the fire and the girl who didn’t know she was a ghost was the first Goosebumps I read. I remeber being horrified enough by it to get a bad tummy ache and be unable to sleep - my Mum thought it was because ooh spooky ghosts and she decided no more Goosebumps for me. But what she didn’t know was…

I love the BBC closed captions. We had them on constantly when I lioved in London and the slip ups are almost always entertaining. My favourite was when a cooking show host said ‘let the meat rest, then carve - mmm, delicious roast chicken’ and the subtitles said ‘let the meat rest, then carve - mmm, delicious roast…

Asshole pal aside, those are some good friends!

that story is so familiar. In my poor student days I was at an out-of-town wedding and went with a couple of friends. The wedding itself was at a big country house bed and breakfast type place - the bride had booked all the rooms for family and for the bridal party and the rest of us were staying in the nearby town in…

I’m so sorry. That’s Ishmael, he probably didn’t hear you. He’s actually deaf in one ear.” (he wasn’t deaf)

I went to visit a friend for a weekend. He was an ex once upon a time but we have been friends for far longer - yet, not long enough for this one girl who thought I was cutting in on her turf. Not only did she invite herself along to everything my friend and I planned to do, she kept doing it in this icky ‘let’s be…

Shortland Street is pretty awful and I try to avvoid it and yet somehow, without watching it, I can recognise people who’ve been in it? Don’t know how that happens! You are right though, I have def had the feeling that it is a rite of passage for Kiwi actors - watching LOTR/Hobbit films is like playing Shortland…

Have you read the article from his (former) friend, explaining why he is no longer welcome at her wedding? It is perfect. He’s a dick and now everyone knows it.

Anna Paquin is a Canadian/Kiwi and went to the same primary school as my cousin in NZ - we don’t call the school years grades and they def did not do plays for Martin Luther King day at that school! There’s at least one name eliminated :)

Jolie, I have never been to a wedding that I remember there being a bouquet toss at so I’ve got nothing great to add, story wise - but I just wanted you to know how much I love these Pop the Question story threads. Seriously, every time I see one come up I feel myself go ‘yuuuussssssss’ and then get ready to settle…

First thing I thought of while reading this article.

‘’Everyone knows someone who’s run the marathon.’’ - I actually know Kathrine. She was my neighbour growing up. Absolutely lovely person along with being a totally inspiring badass (her marathon story is legend on our street).

I have very fond memories of seeing her each morning as I would go to school - she’d be…

i think I actually laugh-whimpered while reading that story. That plus the whole teeth revelation plus the photo - dear god the photo - it's so funny but also not helping my bird phobia. Can't sleep, goose will eat me!

Oh this is too real.

ah yes, after a year in Berlin I am getting really familiar with public pee-ers.

Such hussies, with our short skirts and our FINGERNAILS.

This is late and grey, but ah well!

Ooof, this one strikes right at that buried part of me that was bullied mercilessly as a kid, in large part for my very curly curls (in fairness, the Irish mammy haircut probably didn't help!)