NZBarry

Aesthete, idler, traveler, reader, watcher, beer and coffee taster.

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#InspectorLynley #ElizabethGeorge #CrimeFiction

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The second Inspector Lynley book is Payment in Blood - Lynley and Havers have been working together for 15 months. She's conflicted when she's convinced he's wrong about a suspect, blinded by love for Helen. It's not easy for him or Helen either. This book is a lot!

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I was in Auckland for the Writers festival: naturally, I had to eat and to drink the ocasional coffee: this post is all about that.

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Nazar has been so busy! #shortlandstreet

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I think they are all mis-pronouncing Arlo's name - it's actually arsehole. #shortlandstreet

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Great to see the Leonard remembrance. #shortlandstreet

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that Roland will live a normal life.

Review:
https://t.co/RoEzUAls84

Trailer:
https://t.co/flM1wmn1cG

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Due to a scheduling mishap, I went into Once Upon My Mother thinking it was Camus' The Stranger, and knowing nothing about it. I soon realise it's not a modern abstraction of The Stranger - it's about a boy born with a club foot and his mother's very focussed determination

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#OnedinLine S1E10: James has paid debt, Robert is nagging about the loss of his shop. £400 to safely, and secretly, deliver Guiseppe Garibaldi to Sardinia so he can play his part in uniting Italy, is just what's needed. So what if the new crew is suspect?
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Trailer:
https://t.co/lxn2lJy6cF

My review of Case 137:
https://t.co/EgYD7wLhTc

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#Case137 at the French Film Festival is a very sobering movie. A riot in Paris sees all forces deployed to stop it, with one family complaining that their son innocent but badly injured. Stéphanie is tasked with gettin to the truth, but can she make a difference? #Frenchfilm

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I was just starting to look for my wallet, any panic level is extremely mild, when I get a phone call. Unknown number - nearly don't answer, but I do. It's the ANZ Bank around the corner - a lady has handed in my wallet.

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Trailer:
https://t.co/xdnkF06qyn

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Another movie from the French Film Festival - Cycle of Time is a lot of fun. Very traditional 1950's couple find themselves in 2025. Very bewildering obviously, especially with the wife working and husband not, but they find their way.

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Still posting about my trip north (there are a few posts to come): this one is about my drive from Raglan to Auckland via Tauranga to visit family and friends.

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Monday's #shortlandstreet was so unpleasant to watch, from one end to the other.

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Trailer for Maigret and the Dead Lover:
https://t.co/3PkJCGQZta

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The French Film Festival has started: my first movie was Maigret and the Dead Lover. The movie is well acted and gives some nice views of Paris (I'm impressed by the libraries everone has) but not really mind-blowing.

#Maigret #FrenchFilm

My review:
https://t.co/S2du3yBlHt

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flannel shirts I recognise as from the Warehouse and other clothing items.

The show started with an onscreen appearance from Dougal Stevenson and Richard Stedman setting the scene: they were in the first production in the Globe, way back in 1961!

#RomeoandJuliet #GlobeDunedin

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I've been away then had some medical attention, was lucky enough to catch the last performance of Romeo & Juliet in Dunedin's Globe Theatre.

I'm not sufficiently aware to know if they made changes to the script, but it didn't seem like it, and they did not modernise the language

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I'm sure that was a challenge for the mainly young cast, they were brilliant.

Set was pretty minimal, with images on the back screen, a few signs, a couple of props and a small mobile scaffold, plus vague attempts to place the setting in Otago in the 1960's - a pub (Tybalt's),