Posts by Leigh Russell
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Capture: Upside Down, Inside Out, in reply to Nora Leggs,
Hi Nora and Jackson, thank you, those videos are wonderfully cheery on the bleak winters day we have here. I love Diana Ross's bouncy big hair!
Oh and Lillith, (laughter) tears rolled down my cheeks! How do people think of these things!
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Capture: Autumn lite, in reply to Nora Leggs,
the water quotient is up
Is it wot! I took this photo of the Taieri plain yesterday. It’s not called a flood plain for nothing! No reflections visible in this image, but I feel sure they are in there somewhere!
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Here is another of my favourite tools - a grubber. For certain jobs nothing equals the value of a well made suitably hefty one of these! I was gifted it by an elderly friend. If you fancy getting one of your own don't be taken in with modern light-weight ones - I've seen some in the shops which are complete rubbish. My one, now: heft it high enough above shoulder height and the sheer weight of it does a great deal of digging! I'll leave you to guess my shoe size. At the time I took that photo I was digging up more lawn to make yet another border.
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Capture: Ans Westra - Ngā Tau ki Muri…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Hello Ian and Nora, I have just recollected that the (old?) common term for these is 'hand' mower - which is even more ambiguous! :-)
Edges are a time-consuming matter, but think of all that lovely fresh air - and this is real hands-on contact with the earth and no argument about it!
I do my edges with the clippers pictured. Hand tools I love. I was given those last summer to my great delight - they are just like the pair I used when I was a girl.
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In fact, why have lawns? Well, I really like to have some of this nice smooth greenery, but this frontage really challenges my preference – I absolutely love it! I’ve shown the ones I took of the boundary next to the footpath first so that what’s beyond it makes sense. And gosh, no fence needed here… and what a wonderful habitat for insects and other little creatures! It’s in Woolston, Christchurch, by the way.
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One way smart and easy way to reduce world-wide consumption of fossil fuels is to use a push mower rather than a petrol powered one! The latter have their place but few of us have lawns that really need them. Okay, a push mower takes more time and effort, so? It's good exercise, I say. Furthermore, one never has difficulty starting them and, other than occasional maintenance, they cost nothing to run.
Like so many conservation efforts this may not seem as if it would make much of an impact on the whole, but it is something individuals can do, and "little drops of water, many grains of sand, make the mighty ocean and the pleasant land".
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2 Degrees responded that "other sites were not compatible with the ''design needs of our network''." Pathetic!
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Striving for a better world can involve resisting what I consider to be the boardroom bullying of big companies that should know better. In this case 2 Degrees advertises itself as being ‘fair’ on the part of customers. Really? I’ve written about a planned cell phone tower here: "2 Degrees tower to go ahead despite local opposition" Yesterday's protest meeting at the site was well attended despite rain, wind and very low temperatures!
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Capture: Ans Westra - Ngā Tau ki Muri…, in reply to Chris Waugh,
Hm, he certainly takes the eye! :-)
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Capture: Ans Westra - Ngā Tau ki Muri…, in reply to Chris Waugh,
Wooow, that is impressive smog! Nice place when skies are clear by the look of it. Who is the chubby fellow?
