Southerly: Bricks and Mortar
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"Lets up house and leave."
Oh...Ok...
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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. -
David Haywood, in reply to
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 have driven the Unabomber off the rails.
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Islander, in reply to
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 tree, and it went on to grow a magnificent crown.
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-
kia kaha, kia manawanui e David, Jen & kids-may the arrival AND the the living in Dunsandel be even better than you hope & imagine- arohanui mai na-
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Sacha, in reply to
write it up as another kids' story
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Albert Moves House.
Surely it is now a house boat. Floating down SH1......it will need hawsering to a Bollard once berthed.
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Islander, in reply to
Heh!
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Joe Wylie, in reply to
it will need hawsering to a Bollard once berthed.
Darfield Charlie could manage that single-handed.
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Islander, in reply to
Darfield Charlie could manage that single-handed.
Now, which one he now?
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Lilith __, in reply to
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 were harvested, and I always thought that meant killing the tree. But they are clearly unkillable!
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Hebe, in reply to
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 fiercely and fast grew into a lush multi-headed speciman. The boy's name in translation was "the strongest shoot of the cabbage tree". I wondered if the regeneration was due to his powers or something common to cabbage trees. The head we tossed -- had I known I would have planted that.
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Sacha, in reply to
Albert Moves House
otterly
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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.
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Steve Barnes, in reply to
Albert Moves House.
... all the way to Dunjandal.
<q> Dad made a little felt pen stick figure book for me about it. What a treasure.</q. Wants pictures.
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Dunjandal. Let me thlip on thometing more comfortable.
I want to write a thong about it.
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Islander, in reply to
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 there was…there were 2 other known sources - anybody else know 'em? -
Islander, in reply to
Yeth!
Thing thorth! -
Lilith __, in reply to
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?
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Sofie Bribiesca, in reply to
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. The red flower.... to die for.
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Raymond A Francis, in reply to
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 -
Sofie Bribiesca, in reply to
Flax flowers nectar
Thinking on from that, I see Tuis love our Kahikatea, so their berries may be a nectar also???
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Lilith __, in reply to
Tuis love our Kahikatea
Caught with a fruit in its beak! Shot.
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Sofie Bribiesca, in reply to
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 { :)
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Islander, in reply to
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 our hangi at Big U
Flax flower nectar like snowberries and similar small fiddly foods were kai-tamariki.
Kiekie fruit were cherished - but the birds mainly got those.
The only other sweet food I know of was a mixture of tutu-juice cooked with rehia (a carageen): onviously, it was slightly fraught but it was highly esteemed. -
Lilith __, in reply to
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 :-)
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