Posts by Hebe
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Stephen Judd,
Sue Wells, who is head of that committee did not know (see today's Press) of the letter. So senior council officials, and presumably the mayor (who is not squaking with the requisite outrage had he not been informed), would have known.. And shut down any further release. Brownl;ee has outed the secrecy.
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Capture: Autumn lite, in reply to Lilith __,
Would the photographer (or anyone) like to talk about how it was taken?
I have been looking at aurora photos on Flickr and Youtube. People often ask how they were done. I don't understand the answers but you will....
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Lilith __,
Who needs democracy anyway? It just gets in the way of getting things done
Yeah, big things. Democracy is little people stuff.
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Hardball: http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/business/the-rebuild/8787756/Council-could-lose-consenting-powers
Will Christchurch have any form of local body election this year, or is this the softener for an Ecan-type junta at the CCC? -
Legal Beagle: D-Day for Dunne (updated), in reply to Tom Semmens,
Politics isn’t a sport – it is about cold houses and hungry children, and for thirty years Dunne has acted as the ultimate grey man with no morals, enabling neo-liberalism and being available for hire to whoever would stoke his ego or whatever opportunist lobby group who knew his price whilst wanking on with his particular moralising and haughty arrogance about being “sensible”, as if he had a mortgage on common sense.
Yes. Peter Dunne's hypocrisy has always riled me. And his supposed mortgage on the "common sense" area of politics.
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Sunday pupdate: Two fat-bellied small rat-sized squeakers are being fed two to three-hourly by the boys. The twins fuss at every peep from the box, have a constant eye on their babies' ambient temperature, and are feeding them with six 3ml droppers every feed. Cara comes in to look at the pups every now and again, nuzzles them, and wanders off to sleep and eat.
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Capture: Dogs Love Cameras Too, in reply to Islander,
a sad but cruel oddessey
A fine wording for this...
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Capture: Dogs Love Cameras Too, in reply to Gareth,
Looking much better: my twins have decided that to adopt one pup each and giving two-hour feeds of about 3ml a time and watching their temperature. The boys were themselves very premature so the situation has resonated with them; and although they understand there is a long way to go, the chaps are insistent on doing their best. I'm proud of them.
We think Mum dog is exhausted , being so ancient for a prima gravida and having so many for her first litter. She has had IV antibiotics (the vet thinks she is retaining at least another couple of pups) and is looking more alert now and has been out of bed to see the survivors. Her face was a picture, as she had obviously thought all were gone: sheer delight to find two left.
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Two are responding to newborn puppy milk dripped in syringes! Two more gone. Better than I expected. I will email you Nora... after we have cleaned up the pupatorium again. Picture soon
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Pupdate: Sadly the litter are premature and very small. Four died overnight and the mother has rejected the remaining four. A visit to our lovely vet this morning confirmed this. Our 15-year-old has decided to attempt to save a couple of the remaining four by hand-feeding. It will be surprising if any make it through. Cara the mum is doing well and bright-eyed; she seems to have made her decision after being very wrought when the first died last night.
So, an intense reminder of life and death and the greater cosmic-ness for our family.