Posts by Hebe
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Capture: The Castle, in reply to Gareth,
Did he really? Bounder.
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Capture: The Castle, in reply to Gareth,
“Grumpy old sod” was his considered opinion.
An Irishman then. The alarming thing about Van is he looks like so many of my uncles did and now my cousins do.
Nick Cave spent some time in the same place.
“Gloomy bugger.”Everyone (the men) I knew in Sydney early 80s wanted to look like Nick Cave. Some had even spoken with him.
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Capture: The Castle, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Van Meowison… ?
Twas a Cat-moon-do.
Our mailbox In The Garden sailed Into The Mystic today as we entered the time travel Tardis…. so cool. Thank you Ian. What an excellent surprise: we’re both purring and pawing the treasures right now.
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Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to JacksonP,
passionfruit.
Feral passionfruit. Westies?
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Capture: The Castle, in reply to Nora Leggs,
And something simple
That picture has a wonderful soft quality.
I regret not buying the dandelion head-in-a-paperweight that was a the Christchurch airport Ballantynes shop for years and years ( maybe a decade). I nearly bought it so many times, then one day I decided that today would be the day. When I got there, paperweight was gone; “old stock” they thought. Which all just goes to show…
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Capture: The Castle, in reply to Gareth,
SWMBO had me do these a few weeks ago.
You can have a life, or you can have a big garden.
We’ve got the garden.
Who needs a life when you have that garden! I love Waipara Valley, especially down that riverbed.
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Hard News: Fact and fantasy, in reply to Hilary Stace,
Someone else will know for sure, but hasn’t tourism to NZ gone down in the last few years, even with the PM as Minister?
Yes. The global economic crisis and a high Kiwi dollar, combined with the Christchurch earthquakes (which have hammered the tourism industry for the whole of the South Island).
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Hard News: Fact and fantasy, in reply to Keir Leslie,
To be fair, ECan was dysfunctional, especially on water issues. Something needed to be done.
Something, but not that.
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Capture: The Castle, in reply to Kebabette,
Wonderful golden gloaming Kebabette.
Mine is a few minutes later in town. -
Capture: The Castle, in reply to Nora Leggs,
Leaf in gate
+1 on the punamu horseshoe -- until I read Chris Waugh's comment I had looked, admired and thought no more. It's stunning Nora.
