Posts by Hebe
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Seaholly seedhead using a Raynox macro filter.
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Feed: Saints Preserve, in reply to Lilith __,
Razor blades! Holy crap.
I have a theory that wealthy people's garden sheds and kitchens are bursting with cruel and unusual gadgets. That comes from me having inherited much of a close relative's kitchen contents and garden kit. There were many specialised gougers, slashers and crunchers (and that was in the kitchen). Even a grapefruit segmenter and skinner. The most wonderful was a lethally beautiful garden hand tool like a narrow-bladed miniature scythe.
I realised then that Midsomer Murders was in fact a documentary. -
Feed: Saints Preserve, in reply to Hebe,
Or others here. Some look vicious. http://www.gardenista.com/posts/picking-fruit-the-easy-way
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Feed: Saints Preserve, in reply to Lilith __,
This plastic-bottle-on-pole design looks good: http://www.motherearthnews.com/diy/how-to-make-a-fruit-picker-zb0z1211zmar.aspx
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Feed: Saints Preserve, in reply to Russell Brown,
Sigh. Our neighbours had an old lemon tree with gnarly big, juicy fruit -- much better than shop lemons. They tried to replant it recently when they terraced their back yard, but the result was very sad indeed.
There's a subject: lemon tree failures. Ours is in the best spot in the garden, catching every last ray and so sheltered that the pineapple sage next to it has flowered for three years without a break. The only decent crop it has had was in 2011 when the sewerage failures meant three males were peeing around it for months.
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Good questions Russell. Good on Patrick Gower for fronting up -- a sight more democratic than much of our political process.
And of course Russell had to break that embargo -- happy birthday PG.
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Hard News: Poll Day 2: Queasy, in reply to Myles Thomas,
am blown away when I read on Kiwiblog claims that the Herald is left wing.
That's the reframing at play. The right proclaims itself as centre, which then shifts everyone else skew-whiff, supposedly. And if enough journalists are credulous enough to accept that assertion without question, then over time it becomes a "fact".
Happened in Britain. Happened in Australia (less successfully). Is happening in NZ.
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Hard News: Republished: The CTV collapse…, in reply to Lilith __,
Nobody had the big picture. Not only were almost 200 dead at multiple sites, but thousands were seriously injured.
Good point Lilith. I had the car radio on for a short trip, but nothing was clear. There was no way of knowing what was happening a block away -- the only reports were anecdotal phone-ins, often by distressed people.
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Hard News: Republished: The CTV collapse…, in reply to Sacha,
Quite so - which is why it's drilled into em beforehand. The military seem to manage it.
It's easy to practice shooting and bombs and fighting-type stuff. But there's no way of practising for the earth exploding on you. And there's no way of knowing how you will react until it happens. I heard tell of a battle-hardened ex-military Aussie, working as an insurance assessor who just flipped and ran on Feb 22, leaving someone alone who really needed help. Other people turn out to be tungsten: I know a kindly person who went through town slapping complete strangers to stop them going back into dangerous buildings.
I am amazed by how well the services did: it is difficult to convey the destruction of the CBD, the number of serious "incidents" that happened within 20 seconds.The scale was beyond anything imaginable. I know it's important to review, learn from, analyse mistakes, but I really deeply believe that 99.99% of people did their absolute best that day.
