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Capture: Autumn lite, in reply to Jos,
Re chilblains Jos - there isnt really a cure. We tried about everything as kids (I was brought up in CHCH and the far south.)
The family remedies were:
*rubbing the chilblains with your own pee. Made no discernible difference as far as I could ascertain- this was my Nanna's suggestion (and apparently a Scots folk remedy.)
*rubbling the 'blains with onion juice. Stings. Doesnt do anything else. Attracts onion perverts.
*eating ginger. This seemed to help. Unfortunately, the only ginger available way back then was dry or wet crystallised, and was hellishing expensive.
*However - this is now, and fish oil capsules work just fine. I add as much ginger as I want - because I love the stuff. Along with garlic-Havent had a chilblain for a decade& a half (and I still live in the cold part of the South...)
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Capture: Someone, Somewhere, In Summertime, in reply to Chris Waugh,
Aaawwwwww.... the only motherly feeling I possess is towards kids enjoying their food...
Actually, it extends to all people enjoying good food(I do not include elephant feet within that category, or dolphins....actually, the list of exclusions is HUUUUGE-)
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Capture: Got the blues, in reply to ChrisW,
I am impressed ( and have been for the past 40 years that I've lived on the West Coast/Tai Poutini) by the extraordinary salvage work the NZFS has done, still does-kia kaha! Kia toa!
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Capture: Got the blues, in reply to Nora Leggs,
Chris- Nora's birds are not Caspians. I love Nora's postings - but those arnt Caspians (and Caspians arnt particularly rare-) cheers n/n Islander
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Capture: Got the blues, in reply to ChrisW,
es, the romance of the blue Pacific – loading logs in Gisborne today.
The bird is not your common or butcher’s shop gull, but a Caspian tern (distinctly uncommon).Caspians are relatively common in Aotearoa-NZ - I'm not sure what that gull that is and am disinclined to check. Nightie ra-
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Capture: Got the blues, in reply to ChrisW,
The bird is not your common or butcher’s shop gull, but a Caspian tern (distinctly uncommon).
Caspians have blackish caps & red bills – that is emphatically not a taranui
(which is a bird common here, & I love for its hurtling yet- studied dive on its prey-) -
Hard News: You can Roughan but you just…, in reply to Patrick Reynolds,
Oh where would we be without Aunty John.
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As a registered great aunt (in all kinds of ways) would you kindly kick the sexism bit and call John Roughan for what he truly is - a fusty old uncle-
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Hard News: The War Stories, in reply to Raymond A Francis,
Not bad for a small town that is one of the whitest in the country (not that last fact is worth celebrating) but rather the hard time that we had in the 1980s
Um, there's a lot of -covert Maori? - in Waimate, inlcuding 2 sets of my whanau.
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Hard News: The War Stories, in reply to Henare,
Yes, indeedy.
Out of the 10,000 plus who went overseas, only (only!) half of which were estimated
to have been killed on battlefields.
Peter's horse is still remembered in the whanau (as well as Peter of course!) because he was unusually intelligent & well-trained. -
Capture: Autumn lite, in reply to ChrisW,
What are the chances for this cute little baby!?
Lovely Chris!
I used to collect mantis cases & raise the bubs…the chances of survival?
V. bloody slim: they eat each other & the adults eat them (as well many unrelated predators…)
But I still like ’em – they are fascinating insects-