Posts by Bart Janssen
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Busytown: Sons for the Return Home, in reply to Russell Brown,
more common in the kind of demographics we hang with
I suspect that for those of us of a certain age the only way to experience any of the world was to leave NZ and go there. And since it was such a huge long trip anywhere from NZ we went and stayed for as long as we could afford (or longer) in order to try and see everything.
Whether that perception of being trapped in NZ was real I'm not sure but for many of us growing up at that time it seemed real.
Contrast that with now when the internet brings other places and other cultures to you at home or it appears to. Again the reality of experiencing another place in vivo is quite different but somehow it seems like we are less separated from the rest of the world than we were.
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Busytown: Sons for the Return Home, in reply to linger,
why not simply transfer the markings & labels to a measuring stick that you can bring back with you (and then continue to update it)?
Because that would be much easier than removing the door frame. My solution was much more complicated and expensive <smacks forehead>.
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Busytown: Sons for the Return Home, in reply to Jolisa,
This is all reminding me that I had meant to topiarise the yew at the bottom of the garden into a Totoro shape
Before you do, you must read this from Nature. It may change your mind about topiary.
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Busytown: Sons for the Return Home, in reply to Rich Lock,
A Yew Topiarian vision.
That is so going in my next seminar. And no, I do not want to derail this thread honest.
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Busytown: Sons for the Return Home, in reply to Lilith __,
I wonder if you could train a tree to be a house
One of the things I like to joke about when asked what I want to do is "I want to plant a seed and grow a house" ... only I'm not joking, I really want to see that done someday and know I had a part in that. Of course making it a home such as the one Jolisa is leaving is a much more complicated task.
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Busytown: Sons for the Return Home, in reply to Ross Mason,
And a whole lot of better and more exciting galaxies to stare at down here too!!! With unpolluted, light free (nearly) skies!!
Bah!
While we were in Arizona, each evening I'd set up the scope and look at something - often Jupiter and her/his moons. In auckland I tried to do that and really our skies aren't too light polluted ... but the clouds :( I hadn't remembered how many days it is cloudy, even thin wispy stuff ruins an evening of gazing :(.
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Busytown: Sons for the Return Home, in reply to Jolisa,
I wish I could bring that part of the doorframe, but it’d be a tricky thing to match and patch in a historic house.
I figured that might be an issue - but just for interests sake find a local cabinet maker (NOT a builder) and ask how much it would cost - it may be stupidly expensive - but it may not and it's always worth talking to a good cabinet maker, they're interesting.
On fitting back into New Zealand - the hardest part for me was adapting to the changes in our circle of friends - we knew some had got married and some had broken up, but it was seeing one (married) friend snogging another friend's husband that really threw me for a loop. I expected relationships to have changed but not values, in hindsight people's values change all the time so I shouldn't have been surprised.
Nevertheless I discovered old enemies had become interesting people and eventually fast friends and discovered some folks who used to be fun to talk to were now boring and vice versa. Of course as many of those changes were in fact changes in me. But it took time to adapt and I had to remain flexible and not assume that things would be the same as it ever was.
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Of course you can read the iPAD in the loo!
When we moved back we discovered there was a special mail rate for boxes that only contain paper eg books magazines photocopies of papers etc, providing there was only paper in the box it got a special, dirt cheap mail rate ... 15 boxes later...
The weekend we arrived back in NZ we got in a car with a couple of friends and drove to Napier to a wedding. All of our circle of friends were there ... I think it helped.
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Before I read the rest of your post
the boys’ height markings on the bathroom doorframe
BRING IT WITH YOU!
Really! It's actually not that hard to replace a doorframe, but the memories that go with those height markings ... plus you get to explain to everyone you show around your new home that "that doorframe" came all the way from the US just so you could keep the memories.
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Hard News: Chill out: it's a party, in reply to Richard Llewellyn,
No ‘put your shirts on lads’, no ‘can you stop having so much fun with the other fans’, no ‘see how NZ can put on a good-natured RWC’, just gone. Evicted.
WTF !?!?!?!?!?!?!?