Posts by Hebe
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Southerly: Gerry Brownlee: “I Like To…, in reply to Hilary Stace,
Nail guns and chain saws and other noisy dangerous things are items I never want to be anywhere near. Do you have to have a certain level of testosterone to find them attractive? Is it nature or nurture?
I have a great love of sabre-saws; and I admire those who can handle a chainsaw with ease, and a post-hole digger. Maybe it's from growing up on the dams: as a pre-schooler I would take my dolls out to watch my sandpit full of Euclids, scrapers and other earth-moving machinery create dams, spillways and penstocks.
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Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to Nora Leggs,
I read that as "uptight orange things" and immediately thought of dear old Dame Edna.
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Fireworks and roses.
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Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to Nora Leggs,
It should probably also have a soundtrack of buzzing mosquitos : )
I'll apply Bug Off before I log on then.
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Hard News: Calling the race before it's over, in reply to Gareth Ward,
I’ve often wondered how the Greens intend their structure to work if they actually managed to win leadership of Government… 2.5 days a week each and on-off international junkets?
And I wonder if Labour are really a credible coalition partner for when the Greens become the second-largest party.
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Rob Stowell,
It’s weird- I used to know this bloody city! Trying to sort out where and in which direction the photos were taken makes my head spin!
Me too. (Ballantynes is out of picture on the right by my elbow.) That's why I posted: The weirdness of walking around: oh there's the river, there's the Bridge of Remembrance, stomp, stomp, there's Bally's, there's the old DIC/ Bus Exchange entrance. There's ... bloody hell. It's not! And what's the back of that building... High Street is that strip on this side of the diggers; hardly any buildings there.
That's happening to me everywhere. Now things are popping up out of nowhere as well; almost as disconcerting. Visiting the old Spotlight mall in Sydenham (sorry, SoMo) a couple of weeks ago was the reverse.
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Good to read the Hay/wood house experience is moving along. I have been beaming positivities your way.
WHAT!!
Nail gun? Nail gun??
Where’s my fucking hammer!!!!My Dad could hammer in a four-inch nail with one tap to seat it in then three whacks (two and it wouldn’t necessarily go in straight). No nail-gun. One reason why I loved him.
Use the nail gun to keep the cat on the table.
Or give one nail gun to Bob and one to the cat.
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Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to Nora Leggs,
Calendula and exaggerated sunset
New desktop background thanks.
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And Claire’s garden
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A couple of town, another view opening up. The big building with the broken windows centre left is the fomer Ngai Tahu HQ and the old Reserve Bank building (I always liked that symmetry). The demo on the right is the Holiday Inn. In front is Colombo St/Cashel Mall corner with the empty space being the Triangle Centre. The map is a wee bit dated. Christmas decorations are up and the flowers are making a lovely show.
