Posts by Hebe
Last ←Newer Page 1 2 3 4 5 Older→ First
-
Excellent: This year's Christmas present sorted.
-
Pupdate: Nina and Daisy are eight weeks old today. Happy, smart and full of delight. They are at that wonderful stage of life when they are sure they pretty much know everything about everything in their world.
Photographing them is a matter of keeping the lens away from puppy kisses: they hurtle towards me at first sight and lunge, trying to lick the lens as though it is a large nose. So I point, snap and lurch upwards, hoping something in focus will result.
The first, with white-tipped paws and tail is Nina (known as Nina Nina vacuum-cleaner due to the way she watches everything and remembers every little lesson). Nina is seeking a devoted set of slaves and a loving home.
The second is sweet Daisy, who needs time with us to grow more and become confident; so she is staying.
-
Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Dearie me. I feel his pain.
-
Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Rob Stowell,
a web of art and art-filled lives holding the city together.
Fine way of putting it Rob: that s the sense I get from the show. Opening tonight at 5.30 to 8.30pm at the Linwood Community Arts Centre on Stanmore Road, if you can make it at such short notice.
-
Artist Rudolf Boelee opens his latest exhibition in Christchurch tomorrow evening, the first stop in a New Zealand tour.
It's very good -- and (in a shameless act of self-promotion because I wrote the introduction for his ebook on the show) here's the link:
http://issuu.com/rudolfboelee/docs/a1_eastside_cover_merged__1_/1
-
Cracker: Johnny Foreigner & the Auckland…, in reply to Damian Christie,
Aucklanders, young and old alike, who live in fairly unremarkable homes now worth a million bucks..... still on the same unremarkable income that saw them scraping to buy the house for $200k not so many years ago
There's the driver of the New Zealand property market. It's not complicated: where else can most people get investments that a) give such handsome return (even a hundred thou or two is creaming it for most of us)
and b) is relatively transparent and understandable compared with the sharemarket, money market trading, and finance company investments. -
Capture: Upside Down, Inside Out, in reply to Nora Leggs,
Head's hurting Nora -- the top pic is bloody wonderful.
-
Hard News: Tooled Up for Food, in reply to Thrash Cardiom,
The cast iron
In my old cast iron suite almost the same, the lid fitted the frying pan to make the shallow dish cooker thing. The frying pan had the loop iron handle rather than the wooden one so it could go in the oven, lidless or with lid. That handle was the main reason I gave away the set: I grabbed it ungloved one too many times when I was using it on the stovetop.
-
A very good Part 3 of Puddleglum’s Christchurch blogs (apologies if it has already been posted)
http://www.thepoliticalscientist.org/?p=1392
This piece catalogues the awfulnesses in the central city, mostly via newspaper clips. It draws together the threads, though doesn’t provide much new. Much of the political analysis/ scuttlebutt in part 2 was not great, but part 3 is worth reading, particularly for people outside Christchurch. Good one Puddleglum
-
Capture: Upside Down, Inside Out, in reply to Hilary Stace,
But what I don’t like are the ongoing little shakes, which hopefully are slowing down now. How did Christchurch people endure them for all those months?
When it's very rocky (ie 4s and 5+ for months and months), we go into survival mode. Our jaws set, we stay as close to our kids and home as possible. From my far-off observations, Wellington is not at that stage; Seddon/Blenheim is closer.
On the positive side it has made people much more aware of the need to have good processes and preparedness.
Yeah; then the teenager eats the doom-box.
