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Yo Joe!
My first laugh-out-loud since my naybore died!
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Capture: Auckland Pride Parade, in reply to Joe Wylie,
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Hard News: When "common sense" isn't, in reply to Richard Stemson,
he overwhelming barrier to cycling in NZ and (of more relevance to me) Auckland, is the way the roading is set up (not) for cycling
In an earlier reguarding cyclists & other road users, this was my main point.
West Coast roads are not designed with cyclists in mind and they are, consequently, NATURALLY HAZARDOUS.
Nobody has, it seems, pointed this out to various cycle tour operators & their vanloads of happy punters here.
It used to be that -if there were groups of cyclists on the road between, say,
between the Okarito turnoff & Big O, or going between Harihari & Whataroa via Mount Herc*, the organisers would put out warning signs.This is no longer done.
This is stupid.
*There is a beach route. It is not recommended for cyclists….
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Capture: Auckland Pride Parade, in reply to Russell Brown,
The gay dog-walkers were a nice surprise too :-)
Damn faulty vision - where? I missed them!
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Really good to see NZDF personnel there! Marching with precision & quietness and totally justifiable pride-
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Hard News: The Wogistan form book, in reply to Joe Wylie,
Ah, thanks Joe!
I wasnt a taker either, mainly because I have strong objections to cooking things alive.**Doesnt extend to vegetables/fruit…or, since this may occur as a possibility, does to crustaceans & molluscs. I shuck my shellfish & deepfreeze for 30 mins. my crustaceans-
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Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to Lilith __,
You wanna see my mother's front fence in Oamaru!
Photos posted* when I get there.*Not for the faint-hearted...her wisteria reaches out with lively tendrils towards passers-by and and and-
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Hard News: The Wogistan form book, in reply to Joe Wylie,
ately the rural NZ economy has become quietly dependent on a huge immigrant workforce
The Oamaru Market has benefitted from their presence: freshly-made baklava, and halva; duckeggs with ducklings alive inside(locals werent takers); some very interesting sauces & chutneys &vegetables (I buy my fix of fresh fennel there) along with the more usual provender (breads, hangi portions, Oamaru potatoes & conventional but extremely fresh veges)and all the usual handicrafts, secondhand
books & bricabrac...
Occaisionally, you can also get Moeraki rawaru/bluecod...I esteem good foods, good cooks, good growers/catchers -
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Chris Waugh,
Drools...
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Chris Waugh,
But if the people with the skills come here
we all win, yes?