Posts by Jacqui Dunn
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Happy New Year, Sally.
And how does your garden grow?
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Hard News: Holiday Open Thread 1: Beach…, in reply to recordari,
Sincerely hope he doesn’t buy a Harley
Oh so agree!
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Len Brown
Yes, he’s come a long way from his slap happy campaign in a relatively short period of time.
I think that was just nerves.
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Hard News: Behaving badly at the bottom…, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
No amount of pleading on my part about how punishing financially jury service would be for me (and for anyone else self-employed) got me off the several orders (every year, for years) to turn up at court.
My last one was for a massive assault charge - something like a dozen people in the dock - and it seemed that any female of a pale hue was anathema. So I got sent away. I was heartbroken, of course :)
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When I finally got inside my home, I discovered my water bed had died, and the drawers underneath the thing were full of mulch (ana dead valuable-to-me t-shirts et al…
that year, 2005, was not a good one…Many condolences.
@Ben Wilson.
Yes, I knew you had gone to Melbourne. :) I visited for a few days one Christmas. Christmas Day dawned cool and overcast. Around 10 a.m., in around half an hour, the temperature rose 9 degrees! Suddenly, just walking past an open doorway was like walking past a pizza oven.
@ Jackie Clark.
Did you walk across the dunes to the fresh-water lake? It's very deep, and very cold. They made "Children of Fire Mountain" - well, a lot of it anyway, on and around that lake.
Bethell's itself has quite a history. Don't want to put a dampener on it, but if the stories we were told are true, it's not that good.... -
Hard News: Holiday Open Thread 1: Beach…, in reply to BenWilson,
I must have spent a couple of hours yesterday, cleaning (in hot water with detergent) the containers I'd removed from the freezer. So, yes, we're into keeping the recycling clean - we like to keep the rubbish bin clean too.
Thought this morning about the two young guys who began a rubbish bin cleaning service in Australia, where they'd steam-clean (and I think, recycled the water so it was all really green) the bins. Believe me, you haven't smelt anything until you've smelt a bin in Sydney, mid-summer, just before collection, although if I remember rightly, Ben, you had an opportunity recently to do just that.
I thought those guys should have been knighted for their services to olfactory serenity.
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Hard News: Holiday Open Thread 1: Beach…, in reply to Ray Gilbert,
We gave up on "Carols by Anything" several years ago when it was obvious that the mic-ed singers believed they had to overwhelm everyone else with their loud singing. Apart from the assault on the ears, it was the opposite of joyful community song. Horrible in fact.
What I used to adore when I lived in Kingsland - before it became trendy, mind - were the wonderful little Island bands which used to play outside a variety of houses in the neighbourhood. You'd hear them two streets away, playing a couple of carols, then a short intermission, then you'd hear them off in another direction entirely. Haven't heard that sort of thing for years....has it all disappeared?
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Hard News: Holiday Open Thread 1: Beach…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
We have noticed that other people's rubbish out on the kerb for collection can often have us stumbling away aghast. We're (mostly) vegetarian, so don't have thrown-out bits of meat at any time. However, the poor little dead cat's chicken-and-steamed-pumpkin portions, carefully packed into containers in the probably now-defunct freezer were still lidded, but all had to be emptied. That was ghastly.
But hey! It could have been a lot worse. Garbage collection today....it's gone!
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Hard News: Holiday Open Thread 1: Beach…, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
What about audio books, if the radio is letting you down? They're available from libraries. (I should confess that I produce and sell certain NZ-based ones, but audio books come from all points on the planet so I don't think I'm being too precious in suggesting them).
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Hard News: Holiday Open Thread 1: Beach…, in reply to Felix Marwick,
Ooh, thank you Felix! Much appreciated. I'm not looking forward to this at all, though.... :(