Posts by Chris Waugh
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Capture: Roamin' Holiday, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
Those Marines sure knew how to make friends. Maybe I should pass this on to my ex-Marine colleague?
I don't remember my grandad ever saying anything about the USMC, although he did fight on Guadalcanal, but I do remember him not being favourably disposed towards the US Navy after the captain of the American troop ship that brought him home from Italy sailed into the Manukau Harbour, realised his mistake, then sailed back out and up around Northland before getting the ship to the Waitemata where it was supposed to go.
Of sluts being fucked in alley-ways
Funny how that "keep your filthy foreign hands off our women" attitude pops up in so many different cultures.
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Capture: Roamin' Holiday, in reply to Islander,
Oops, to clarify: Read that post and loved it.
As for book recommendations, much appreciated, but NZ books are hard to find around these parts. Fortunately my mother knows to send me a book every birthday and Christmas.
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Capture: Roamin' Holiday, in reply to Islander,
Read it and loved it.
You have wise olds.
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Capture: Roamin' Holiday, in reply to Islander,
One thing I found fascinating about living in Otago, especially around the time of the 150th anniversary, was the little stories I often came across of those older European (or sometimes mini UN) settlements that predated Dunedin. They were always desperately short on details and I never got round to following them up, and I've forgotten most of them now. But I do sometimes wonder what would happen if we went chasing up real histories, the unofficial histories that aren't commonly written in the standard textbooks.
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Capture: Roamin' Holiday, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
I'm surprised the Rena lasted as long as she did, she's been battered by quite a few storms over the last few months on that reef.
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Capture: Roamin' Holiday, in reply to Geoff Lealand,
Looks like it was quite a nice place before the shipwreck (assuming, of course, that that is shipwreck detritus you've been harvesting).
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Capture: Roamin' Holiday, in reply to Lilith __,
High altitude where you are?
Not really. Those photos were taken on the northwestern edge of Beijing. I'm not really sure how high, but hidden behind those hills is what Baidu Baike says is Beijing's second highest mountain, Haituoshan, at 2241m. Yanqing County has an average altitude of 500m. Our village is, as you can see, at the base of the mountains, and on clear days in the winter we look down on the rooftops of the county town about 10km away, but it's hardly at a Tibetan sort of altitude.
But where I am is Chaoyang District in downtown Beijing. I remember my boss telling me a few years ago that Beijing is only 50m above sea level. I imagine it's a bit less than that now, considering the entire North China Plain is sinking thanks to the groundwater being overpumped.
Incidentally, one of those pointy hills to the left of the picture is haunted. Quite a few people died up there during the war, and ever since that hill has been quite good at dropping people who dare climb it.
And the courtyard with its solar water heater pointing west instead of the usual south is where my parents in law live. That perhaps explains why I have so many pictures of or taken from that edge of the village.
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I couldn't find this one on my computer, so I downloaded it from Weibo, and now it's dated January 11, 2012. Nope, this is also our village last time I had a summer holiday.
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A much warmer dawn, June last year, looking out from our village in Yanqing County.
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My mum tells me it's pretty chilly in Wellington, and my pictures so far have been wintry and Chinese. Here's something a little more summer holiday-like. My wife trying to shoot me, Army Museum, Waiouru, February 2010.
