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]]> Wed, 25 Apr 2012 23:52:41 +1200 David Haywood http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256418#post256418 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256418#post256418 Wed, 25 Apr 2012 23:52:41 +1200 Islander http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256419#post256419 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256419#post256419 Wow! Waua! Impressive! Extraordinary!
I mean every vowel of every word! (The constants can go hang 'em-selves.)
I look forward very much, to the next installment...

]]> Wed, 25 Apr 2012 23:58:53 +1200 David Haywood http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256420#post256420 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256420#post256420 Thank you! I hope to live-blog the next installment — starting around 8 am tomorrow (Thursday).

Cellphone connectivity permitting, of course...

]]> Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:08:40 +1200 Sacha http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256421#post256421 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256421#post256421 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:27:44 +1200 dc_red http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256422#post256422 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256422#post256422 The removal of the first pair of chimneys (emphasis added).

A combination of words that has seldom needed to be written, I'd wager!

]]> Thu, 26 Apr 2012 03:46:52 +1200 Jackie Clark http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256423#post256423 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256423#post256423 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 05:25:00 +1200 Gee http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256424#post256424 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256424#post256424 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 05:34:21 +1200 Judi Lapsley Miller http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256426#post256426 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256426#post256426 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 06:33:26 +1200 Russell Brown http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256427#post256427 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256427#post256427 A definite high tidemark of suffering was the removal of the remains of our chimneys, in which ? very fortunately ? I had the able assistance of the lovely Ian Dalziel from Apple Pie Design. Actually ?assistance? perhaps undersells his contribution. Saint Dalziel lifted a mind-boggling 75 tonnes of bricks? ]]> Thu, 26 Apr 2012 07:13:30 +1200 David Haywood http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256428#post256428 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256428#post256428 The prodigious lifting ability you see in Ian today was honed carrying entire PA Systems up the steep, carpeted stairs of Melbourne pubs and RSLs as the roadie for the legendary Toy Love.

I hadn?t looked at it this way before, but I guess maybe I was doing a __favour?

]]> Thu, 26 Apr 2012 07:23:30 +1200 JacksonP http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256429#post256429 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256429#post256429 This whole process seems to be a triumph of monumental proportions already, and you haven't even moved the house yet. The story of everyone, and Saint Dalziel in particular, going the extra mile is incredibly heart warming.

All the best for the move.

]]> Thu, 26 Apr 2012 07:25:18 +1200 Creon Upton http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256430#post256430 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256430#post256430 I hope today goes extraordinarily well for you all, David.

The weather looks good at least.

Here's what I don't understand. With your property being effectively stolen, why is it so necessary to "Fell cabbage tree" before that happens? Poetry? Spite?

]]> Thu, 26 Apr 2012 07:48:37 +1200 David Haywood http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256431#post256431 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256431#post256431 why is it so necessary to ?Fell cabbage tree? before that happens? Poetry? Spite?

The cabbage tree was blocking the house from being removed. It nearly killed me (psychologically) to cut it down.

Turns out that I'd rather have a house than a cabbage tree...

]]> Thu, 26 Apr 2012 07:52:43 +1200 Isabel Hitchings http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256432#post256432 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256432#post256432 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 08:26:32 +1200 andin http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256435#post256435 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256435#post256435 The commencement of work on the second pair of chimneys revealed three hitherto unknown cupboards hidden behind the wallpaper.
Being in the process of demolishing a 1900's era house myself, I was amazed by the nest of cupboards I found constructed around the fireplace, or place where the wood stove?

]]> Thu, 26 Apr 2012 09:09:27 +1200 Sacha http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256439#post256439 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256439#post256439 I hope to live-blog the next installment

true to his word, here.

]]> Thu, 26 Apr 2012 09:51:47 +1200 Lilith __ http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256448#post256448 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256448#post256448 The prodigious lifting ability you see in Ian today was honed carrying entire PA Systems up the steep, carpeted stairs of Melbourne pubs and RSLs

Ian can and does frequently lift the entire Public Address System, to this day. :-)

]]> Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:03:56 +1200 Lilith __ http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256449#post256449 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256449#post256449 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:06:12 +1200 JLM http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256453#post256453 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256453#post256453 The cabbage tree was blocking the house from being removed. It nearly killed me (psychologically) to cut it down.

Turns out that I'd rather have a house than a cabbage tree...

Cabbage trees always seem to resprout, so come back in another 10 years...

]]> Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:35:55 +1200 Emma Hart http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256454#post256454 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256454#post256454 Well done to you and Jen and all your helpers!

Somehow (and I suspect it's the result of years of near-pathological niceness) David and Jennifer have produced this effect in our household, and I suspect those of all their friends.

Me: David wants to know if we can-
Karl: Yes.?

]]> Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:41:43 +1200 Lilith __ http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256456#post256456 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256456#post256456 Cabbage trees always seem to resprout

You could try digging up what's left and replanting it. I was given a cabbage tree for my garden which had only part of its main root still attached. I stuck it in the ground as an experiment and then when it didn't seem?

]]> Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:58:17 +1200 Sacha http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256458#post256458 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256458#post256458 Ian can and does frequently lift the entire Public Address System, to this day

gold

]]> Thu, 26 Apr 2012 12:14:56 +1200 Jolisa http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256465#post256465 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256465#post256465 The cabbage tree was blocking the house from being removed. It nearly killed me (psychologically) to cut it down.

Turns out that I'd rather have a house than a cabbage tree...

This whole thing is like an epic, architectural case of Shag/Kill/Marry.

]]> Thu, 26 Apr 2012 12:51:03 +1200 Helen Searancke http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256468#post256468 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256468#post256468 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 12:58:43 +1200 Tim Michie http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256469#post256469 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256469#post256469 Watch this space for breaking news. Before I begin the liveblog I hope there aren't too many breakages. ]]> Thu, 26 Apr 2012 12:58:53 +1200 Ross Mason http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256476#post256476 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256476#post256476 "Lets up house and leave."

Oh...Ok...

]]> Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:34:41 +1200 John Haywood http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256522#post256522 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256522#post256522 I like how your writing on 'the list' turns gradually into a illegible scrawl as you get more tired.
It's how I imagine The Unabomber's manifesto would have looked.

]]> Thu, 26 Apr 2012 20:22:41 +1200 David Haywood http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256524#post256524 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256524#post256524 I like how your writing on ?the list? turns gradually into a illegible scrawl as you get more tired.
It?s how I imagine The Unabomber?s manifesto would have looked.

I must confess that — at times — the whole process has given me something of an insight into what might?

]]> Thu, 26 Apr 2012 20:40:56 +1200 Islander http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256532#post256532 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256532#post256532 I stuck it in the ground as an experiment and then when it didn?t seem to have done anything after some months I started to dig it up again to throw away, only to find it was busy sprouting roots down there! I hurriedly re-buried them with apologies to the? ]]> Thu, 26 Apr 2012 22:30:12 +1200 Sacha http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256533#post256533 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256533#post256533 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 22:37:41 +1200 Ross Mason http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256534#post256534 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256534#post256534 Albert Moves House.

Surely it is now a house boat. Floating down SH1......it will need hawsering to a Bollard once berthed.

]]> Thu, 26 Apr 2012 22:46:05 +1200 Islander http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256543#post256543 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256543#post256543 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 23:54:37 +1200 Joe Wylie http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256550#post256550 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256550#post256550 it will need hawsering to a Bollard once berthed.
Darfield Charlie could manage that single-handed.

]]> Fri, 27 Apr 2012 00:16:24 +1200 Islander http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256553#post256553 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256553#post256553 Darfield Charlie could manage that single-handed.

Now, which one he now?

]]> Fri, 27 Apr 2012 00:37:17 +1200 Lilith __ http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256564#post256564 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256564#post256564 We (Kai Tahu) used to harvest the roots of ti-rakau, bake them in especial ovens (umu-ti) and extract the rich sweet sugars they contained?after digging up the roots, you then replanted the crown/s. Ti-rakau then continued on its merry way, colonising all suitable land-

That's amazing. I knew the roots?

]]> Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:08:35 +1200 Hebe http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256565#post256565 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256565#post256565 then replanted the crown/s. Ti-rakau then continued on its merry way, colonising all suitable land-

I had a cabbage tree that was sliced off an inch above the ground by a small and fierce male descendant of warrior lineage. I was upset about the unremarkable tree until the nub sprouted?

]]> Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:25:08 +1200 Sacha http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256581#post256581 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256581#post256581 Albert Moves House

otterly

]]> Fri, 27 Apr 2012 14:07:50 +1200 Tim Michie http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256598#post256598 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256598#post256598 Write it up as another kids' story. When we moved from Manurewa to the North Shore 6 year old me got to ride in the moving truck over the Harbour Bridge. Dad made a little felt pen stick figure book for me about it. What a treasure. ]]> Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:48:52 +1200 Steve Barnes http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256644#post256644 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256644#post256644 Albert Moves House.

... all the way to Dunjandal.

Dad made a little felt pen stick figure book for me about it. What a treasure. ]]> Sat, 28 Apr 2012 10:31:33 +1200 Ross Mason http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256695#post256695 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256695#post256695 Dunjandal. Let me thlip on thometing more comfortable.

I want to write a thong about it.

]]> Sat, 28 Apr 2012 23:08:25 +1200 Islander http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256697#post256697 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256697#post256697 O, it might?ve seemed redundant to have ?sweet sugars? : sugar-tastes can be cloying (saccarine), or one level (white cane sugar for instance) or the complex that is treacle or
ti-sugar (or honey.) No honey bees in Aotearoa then ? ti-sugar and the sugar in treated kelp-stipes were almost all?

]]> Sun, 29 Apr 2012 00:11:37 +1200 Islander http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256698#post256698 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256698#post256698 Yeth!
Thing thorth!

]]> Sun, 29 Apr 2012 00:44:04 +1200 Lilith __ http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256708#post256708 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256708#post256708 No honey bees in Aotearoa then ? ti-sugar and the sugar in treated kelp-stipes were almost all there was?there were 2 other known sources ? anybody else know ?em?

Raupo pollen? Honeydew?

]]> Sun, 29 Apr 2012 12:15:57 +1200 Sofie Bribiesca http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256713#post256713 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256713#post256713 other known sources ? anybody else know ?em?


What about the Rewarewa tree? We have a poor specimen that might recover now it has been relieved of the pressure that was on it but have more in the bush so it may regrettably have to make way for our building.?

]]> Sun, 29 Apr 2012 13:53:03 +1200 Raymond A Francis http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256714#post256714 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256714#post256714 Flax flowers nectar
Kiekie flowers, not that I am sure about these as they don't grow this far south,
Ti tree was the biggy down here and there are stories of the whalers making rum with the sugar from them

]]> Sun, 29 Apr 2012 14:19:34 +1200 Sofie Bribiesca http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256718#post256718 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256718#post256718 Flax flowers nectar

Thinking on from that, I see Tuis love our Kahikatea, so their berries may be a nectar also???

]]> Sun, 29 Apr 2012 14:47:47 +1200 Lilith __ http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256722#post256722 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256722#post256722 Tuis love our Kahikatea

Caught with a fruit in its beak! Shot.

]]> Sun, 29 Apr 2012 16:19:49 +1200 Sofie Bribiesca http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256727#post256727 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256727#post256727 Caught with a fruit in its beak! Shot.
They roam around in the treetops, then duck and dive.Treetops at least 7 metres so not easy to capture. A choice of 6 was a pleasure but 6am is their tease. Also, a hangover does not a steady cam make { :)

]]> Sun, 29 Apr 2012 17:55:03 +1200 Islander http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256729#post256729 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256729#post256729 aupo pollen? Honeydew

Raupo pollen was often mixed with a ground-up manuka beetle (kekewai in the south) – I've never been able to catch a lot of them. Raupo pollen sans beetle is palatable but not sweet ( we have put down flay cakes of it in a teatowel in?

]]> Sun, 29 Apr 2012 18:23:16 +1200 Lilith __ http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256736#post256736 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256736#post256736 a mixture of tutu-juice cooked with rehia (a carageen)

Oh! But I thought tutu was poisonous?

I have eaten snowberries, they are delicious...but very small and scarce :-)

]]> Sun, 29 Apr 2012 19:08:03 +1200 Joe Wylie http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256739#post256739 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256739#post256739 Te Hekenga, available here. Starts on page 58 of the PDF version. Includes a mention of an extensive and deliberately maintained kiekie 'orchard' of the? ]]> Sun, 29 Apr 2012 19:23:08 +1200 Biobbs http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256761#post256761 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256761#post256761 Raupo pollen?

Raupo rhizomes are a wonderful source of starch – I have baked good bread from raupo rhizome. Not just raupo, but also kuta and most of the other tall wetland sedges have good starchy rhizomes too. If our modern technological society does ever collapse, I'm heading to my?

]]> Sun, 29 Apr 2012 21:59:15 +1200 Lilith __ http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256766#post256766 http://publicaddress.net/system/cafe/southerly-bricks-and-mortar/?p=256766#post256766 I?m heading to my nearest wetland for my subsistence lifestyle.

Ah, Biobbs. :-)
There are a few nice stands of raupo in the Heathcote, but I wouldn?t vouch for their cleanliness?

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