Marty Smith

Once my work was in NCEA Level 2 exam and a couple of the students referred to the writer as ‘Miss’

Sent you a message, Marty

So wonderful. But you can always take the bird away from the cat and put it somewhere in the dark to die quietly 🥺

Matariki sun on the mantlepiece

I am told they threatened to pour petrol on people and light them in Hastings, which is why it had to be cancelled

Could you get patterns in English?

There’s a brilliant one called Knit Knit

I was in Berlin, in class, when that happened and two of us students were Chinese. The devastation and horror.

It’s so lovely it gives me enduring nostalgia for the towns and villages of Rupert.

Have a green beer, then you are truly there. I can’t remember what they’re called

I usually stick my fingers ostentatiously in my ears to save me from my grumpiness. It also blocks the sound out. I frown fiercely, get a real big wrinkle. It usually works quite quickly

Good grief

Sitting on the huge carved chair. Just imagine what an impact you made on her, and how great for you both, it’s exciting

How brilliant. Chloe Ryder. Her mum’s a photographer. How excited she must have been about your new book and to come to your see you as an adult . I could tell my people to talk to her people… I’m sure you’ll get another chance for a photo

What we do on Sundays

Pity he can’t take a ride with them to get the full picture. I thought we were done with this.

I just asked Phil, who knows a lot about cars of that vintage and he said 3 door. He was definite

People will start to notice by the time you get to F

Have you killed him?

The lights are lying around

Max’s cousin lives in Bergamo, Italy and he went out on the boat this morning

It’s terrible and we have to sit on this roller car for another three years. Unbelievably destructive, hell bent

Me too

What a line up. And wouldn’t it be amazing if he did front up? Be funny if it were Winston, he called Tusiata a mediocre poet.

It’s marvellous and heart-breaking

Ha I posted three different scores and the last one was a 1 🤣 just for the sake of it. The real score was a three

Did anything weird happen to your Wordle? Mine saved the wrong score and when I looked at it, none of the choices were my choices, totally different words

And doing it so skilfully that we listen to the revs and change gears without using the clutch

And fancy it making the news (hopefully goes viral) where posters depicting Fuckson as a penis must be removed. Just in case anyone missed it

WHAT. This is my great-grandmother being shamed at school for speaking Māori. I can’t believe the school is allowed to do this, I can’t believe they would want to