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the east room became the centerpiece, and this cake specialist made special sculptures for the mantel pieces. whimsical special creations way too special to eat. the blue room was covered with 2,700 lights and over 2,000 handmade garlands. 344 wreaths were hung. 843 bows were tied. slowly, assurely it was transformed. white house staffers, artisans from all over the country and hundreds of volunteers have been working since last january to deck these halls and in the next few weeks plenty of creatures will be stirring around here. an estimated 20,000 visitors are expected to walk through this winter wonderland. it s a fun time to work here, isn t it? it s great. we invite in a lot of children s choirs and entertainment groups and they so enjoy it. every time they come through the doors, they re so tickled to be here. and now the holiday season ....
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I’ve had the most dreadful year of reading, like many other people I know. What should have been the year of Ulysses, Proust and the lesser performed Shakespeare plays became, instead, weeks staring vacantly at CNN coverage of the U.S. election offset by 1930s Hollywood screwball comedies and a sneaky addiction to the This Dog Has Now Been Rehomed column on dogsblog.com. So while I’ve continued to read (good habits are hard to break), very little has really engaged me this year. With two exceptions Hilary Mantel’s glorious The Mirror And The Light, which I savoured over the course of a month, and my current read, Mantel Pieces, her essays on everything from John Osborne to the needlessly controversial Royal Bodies (which enraged David Cameron and Piers Morgan so much they no doubt briefly considered actually reading it). ....
123RF Writer and essayist Talia Marshall. This Summer my reading is not really for pleasure. Although, I recently stayed in an amazing bach in Aotea where Te Rauparaha had fought against Northern invaders before making his way south from Kawhia on his Musket War heke. Alexander Turnbull Library Te Rauparaha. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. The caretaker of the bach said Te Rauparaha is known as a terrorist in these parts as he eyed the old pā to my left. I am meant to be reviewing Te Rauparaha’s son Tamihana’s slickly produced version of his life, A Record Of The Life Of The Great Te Rauparaha (AUP, edited by another descendant, Ross Calman). ....