Posts by Aidan
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Did he do the rebates for the hinges? Paint me impressed .. and little worried you let him use a chisel.
And what the hell was that enormous pole thing the garaport was attached to? Not a hop growing frame? If so I'd be REALLY impressed.
Mmmmm hops.
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Up Front: The Aunties, in reply to Islander,
Islander .. sorry, been away. Amazingly similar! The women are left and support each other. Bloody brilliant.
My Great Aunt Irene (the one who lived in the apartment out the back of the garage) had lived most of her working life back in the UK - she applied and was accepted into a british nursing program. When she retired and had some health issues her sisters urged her to come back to NZ so she had some support.
The other side of the coin -- my Mum's paternal grandfather was a chronic gambler. They rarely saw much of him, but eventually my Grandfather built him a little "whare" in the backyard to live in. He sometimes had a meal with them, but they never gave him any money as he just gambled it away.
Families eh?
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I had three Great-Aunties who lived together. Two in a little house and one in the a flat out the back of the garage. They were 3 of 7 girls, their widowed mother brought them out to NZ from England by herself in the 20s. Remarkable to think about that now. Only two of the girls ever had children.
They were great old birds. One of them had a life-long delusion/fantasy that she was the Earl of Kitchener's illegitimate daughter. After her death we found much correspondence, including a letter from the Estate of Lord Kitchener, very politely explaining that they could find no evidence to substantiate her claims.
Another was always called "Dot", which, as a child, I assumed was due to the very prominent mole on her face.
They had a front room which, as far as I can remember, no-one ever used. It was always cups of tea around the kitchen table, in the laughably small kitchen.
Come Christmas time someone would always go and get "The Aunts" and they would arrive, ghost-like in their enthusiastically applied face powder. "One more sherry Aunty Dot? .. Oh why not dear, it is a Christmas".
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Capture: Colour is the new black, in reply to Tom Ackroyd,
I hope Chlorine was green, Oxygen Red and Hydrogen White.
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I like blue
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Vicarious enjoyment of colour - dressing kids brightly
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The Labour Capital Gains Tax proposal doesn't seem to have got much traction.
I'd have thought this was a real winner, as it is clear there is a need to raise revenue and NZ is one of a handful of countries that doesn't have a CGT.
I talked to my Mum about the election (she is 71). Apparently she likes John Key and finds Phil Goff "shifty" and untrustworthy.
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Otaki Beach. 2005.
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Woolshed, near Feilding. 2005. Just because it is quite NZish, and probably not given the same sort of audience as a nice sunset.
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Otaki Beach 2007. Cliche yes. I like it though.
